01 / Print edition
The whole guideline set for A4, for reading away from a screen and for handing to a colleague who will not clone a repository.
Download the PDFAI4BCM Guidance · Release 2026.09 · CC BY 4.0
Take AI4BCM Guidance with you.
22 markdown units, each small enough to read whole and cite. Free to use, share, adapt and build on — commercially included — as long as the authors are named.
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Two formats, one text.
02 / Machine edition
Markdown
All 22 units in one file, each under its own path, each keeping the citation line at its foot. Drop it whole into the assistant you use and ask it questions.
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The repository
Where the units are written and versioned. Corrections arrive as pull
requests; releases/2026.09.json resolves this
release to a commit and a hash per file.
Licence · CC BY 4.0
Use it, adapt it, sell work built on it — name the authors.
Everything AI4BCM publishes — AI4BCM Guidance and the maturity playbook — is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. That is free to use, share, adapt and build on, commercial use included, and it is irrevocable: once a version is published this way it stays free. The one condition is attribution, and the licensor sets the wording. This is the credit line to carry.
Hoekstra, W., Gerner, K., et al. (2026). AI4BCM: Guideline for using AI by BCM professionals. CC BY 4.0.Citing one unit rather than the whole guideline? Name the unit and the release; the form is the same line with the path in it, and every unit carries it at its foot:
Hoekstra, W., Gerner, K., et al. (2026). AI4BCM: Guideline for using AI by BCM professionals, 2026.09, <unit path>. CC BY 4.0.
releases/2026.09.json in the repository resolves
the release tag to a commit and to a hash per citable file, so a
citation naming a tag names the text as it stood at that tag.
What is inside
22 units, in the order the work travels.
The data rules come first because they are the one rule you cannot recover from: what is pasted into the wrong tool cannot be unpasted.
Foundations and vocabulary
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Data Rules
units/data-rules.md -
Principles
units/principles.md -
Where You Stand
units/levels.md -
Tools
units/tools.md -
Workflow Design
units/workflow-design.md -
Glossary
units/glossary.md -
References and further reading
units/references.md
The six lifecycle stages
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Establishing and Governing BCM
units/stages/govern.md -
Embedding BCM in the Organisation
units/stages/embed.md -
Analysis: Business Impact and Risk
units/stages/analysis.md -
Continuity Strategies and Solutions Design
units/stages/design.md -
Implementing Continuity Arrangements
units/stages/implement.md -
Validation, Exercising, Review and Improvement
units/stages/validate.md
The prompts
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Prompts
units/prompts/README.md -
Drafting
units/prompts/draft.md -
Awareness content
units/prompts/awareness.md -
BIA support
units/prompts/bia.md -
Review and challenge
units/prompts/review.md -
Exercise scenario
units/prompts/exercise.md -
Management reporting
units/prompts/management-report.md -
Prompt evaluations
units/prompts/evaluations.md
Next
Reading it is one way in. Running it is another.
The same units install into the assistant you already use, behind a router that points you at the unit, the prompt and the maturity level your situation needs — and reads your files inside your own tenant.