SmartSuite for the Model Owner
A Model Owner is accountable for assigned AI models: completing required risk and performance assessments, maintaining documentation, keeping status and changes current and coordinating remediation. They are the first line for the models their business uses.
What you own
- Register and maintain assigned models in the inventory
- Complete required risk and performance assessments
- Maintain model documentation, status and change records
- Track and close issues raised against the model with evidence
- Monitor model performance and escalate degradation
- Prepare the model for periodic review and re-validation
Where the role sits
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Reports to
Direct reports
Works closely with
GRC processes
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Owns
accountable for the process
Touches
contributes or approves
Depends on
consumes its output
How SmartSuite helps, suite by suite
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How they use the AI Governance suite
Outcome alignment
Monitors whether models meet operational expectations.
Decision support
Evaluates trade-offs and approves ongoing use.
Accountability
Ensures required governance steps are completed.
How they use the AI Governance suite
Assessment completion
Submits required risk and performance evaluations.
Remediation ownership
Tracks and closes issues with evidence.
Lifecycle management
Maintains status, changes, and review readiness.
Suites that serve this role
Products this role uses most
How SmartSuite supports this role
AI governance. Gives model owners a structured workflow for assessments, documentation and ongoing monitoring through a model registry and assessment templates.
Issues and actions. Tracks and closes issues with evidence and task routing.
Reporting. Maintains status, changes and review readiness visible to governance.
Industry reference
SR 11-7 / OCC 2011-12 makes the business owner accountable for a model's development, documentation, intended use and performance monitoring, with the model inventory as the record. NIST AI RMF's Manage function and ISO/IEC 42001 apply the same accountability to AI systems.
Sector law reinforces it: the EU AI Act places deployer obligations (Article 26) on organisations using high-risk systems; insurers must evidence model governance under the NAIC model bulletin; healthcare providers are responsible for how decision-support tools are used under HHS rules; US federal agencies assign ownership for each AI use case in their public inventories.
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