The lead offer · AI impact assessment, facilitated
The assessments are mandatory. The method comes with us – and stays with you.
Pre-deployment human-impact assessment of AI is now required policy for Australian government – and rising assurance expectation everywhere else. Most teams have the deadline without the method or the spare hands. We facilitate the assessments with your people, stand up the registers, and hand the method over – so the next round runs without us.
The call: 30 minutes · your deadline, your systems, our read · no deck.
We facilitate the assessment method and artefacts; agencies remain accountable for policy compliance, legal review and procurement decisions.
Why now
The window has dates on it.
Commonwealth AI policy v2.0 · in effect now
Now → 15 December 2026
Policy v2.0 is already in effect, with requirements phasing in through 2026. By 15 December 2026, in-scope Commonwealth AI use cases require pre-deployment AI impact assessment – alongside adoption plans, use-case registers, accountable officials, incident processes and staff training.¹ NSW’s AI Assessment Framework is already mandatory for all agency AI use, including procurement.² Most agencies must produce artefacts they have never produced before, this calendar year – and the buyer-side toolkit exists, but the hands and the method to run it are scarce.
What the engagement delivers
Run with you, then handed to you.
Your priority AI use-cases assessed for human impact with your people in the room – aligned to the Commonwealth policy toolkit and the NSW AIAF, read through a structured qualitative framework: agency, reciprocity, alignment, signal integrity.
Your AI use-case register established and populated; assessment records in the form your accountable official needs; the incident and review cadence designed into how the work already runs.
Your team trained to run the next assessment round without us – templates, decision rules, and the facilitation pattern. The dependency never forms; that’s the deliverable.
Aligned to the APS Strategic Commissioning Framework by design: specialist, time-bound, capability-transferring. The same receiver-side method serves enterprise AI teams shipping under rising assurance expectations – one instrument, public and commercial registers.
Procurement, made simple
Engageable directly – this quarter.
Engage an SME directly up to $500,000 (GST inclusive) without open tender, subject to value for money – CPR Appendix A.³
Below the procurement threshold no open tender is required; SME-only approaches are encouraged under CPR 5.5.³
Agencies may directly negotiate with an SME up to $250,000 under PBD-2023-03, including where mandated arrangements exist.⁴
A scoped engagement on commercial terms – fixed fee, time-boxed, board-ready output. Start with the 30-minute call.
Divergent Kind facilitates conditions for agency and coherence. We do not diagnose, treat, or cure.
Assessments read preferences, patterns and impacts on people – never diagnoses of people. The boundary is the design constraint that makes this work safe to scale.
¹ Policy for the responsible use of AI in government v2.0 (digital.gov.au) – effective 15 Dec 2025; requirements phase in through 2026; AI impact assessment required for in-scope use cases by 15 Dec 2026. ² NSW AI Assessment Framework, DCS-2024-04 (digital.nsw.gov.au). ³ Commonwealth Procurement Rules, 17 Nov 2025 edition (finance.gov.au). ⁴ NSW PBD-2023-03 (arp.nsw.gov.au). Facts verified 11 Jun 2026; procurement rules change – confirm current settings with your procurement team. Divergent Kind Pty Ltd · ABN 30 693 755 672 · Australian SME.