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Ronke Jegede

AI Governance Architect · Fractional Chief AI Officer · Founder, Cardinal AI Systems

These four books are a practitioner's record, written while advising UK organisations on digital visibility, reputation management and governance risk, before AI became the defining boardroom challenge. The governance substance was always the same. The technology at the centre of the risk has changed. That continuity of expertise is the foundation on which Cardinal AI Systems and the Ethical Tech Institute are built. Every AI governance framework Ronke deploys today is informed by three decades of watching what happens when organisations underestimate regulatory and reputational risk, and what it costs them.

Four Published Titles

The Evidence Base of 30 Years' Practice

01 · Search Engine Visibility

Online Business Exposure

Get Your Business on the First Page of Google

Written at the frontline of digital visibility strategy for UK small and medium businesses. This was the book that established Ronke's authority in the space of commercial online presence — before AI governance existed as a discipline, and long before most organisations understood that visibility and governance were two sides of the same coin.

2026 Relevance
In 2026, page-one Google visibility is inseparable from AI governance. Search Generative Experience (SGE), AI-scraped content, and automated content generation have transformed what ranking means and what compliance requires. The principles in this book now carry regulatory implications under the EU AI Act's transparency obligations.
ISBN
0993450911
Format
Paperback
Rating
4.20 / 5 ★
Shelved
101 times
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02 · Reputation Management

What's Being Said About You?

Strategies for Businesses to Monitor Online Reputation

In 2026, online reputation is fundamentally an AI governance issue. This book laid the foundation for understanding how organisations track, manage, and respond to what is being said about them across digital channels — work that now extends directly into deepfake risk management, AI-generated brand attacks, and automated sentiment analysis under UK GDPR.

2026 Relevance
Every reputation monitoring principle in this book has acquired an AI dimension. Deepfakes, algorithmic defamation, and AI-driven brand attacks are now active threats for regulated organisations. The ICO's guidance on automated processing applies directly to the monitoring tools this book pioneered as standard practice.
ISBN
099345092X
Format
Paperback
Audience
Business Leaders
Sector
Regulated Industries
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03 · Digital Strategy

Get Plugged In

Harnessing The Power of Social Media and Online Marketing

A practical guide to social media strategy and online marketing for organisations navigating the digital transition. The governance principles applied in this book — policy frameworks, escalation protocols, stakeholder communications — are the same principles that now underpin responsible AI deployment frameworks for regulated organisations.

2026 Relevance
Social media governance in 2026 requires AI use policies, automated content compliance under EU AI Act Article 50, and staff training frameworks under Article 4. The structural governance thinking in this book is directly applicable to the AI governance challenge now facing every organisation with a digital presence.
ISBN
0993450938
Format
Paperback
Audience
Business Owners
Focus
Digital Governance
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04 · Faith Communities

Church Where Art Thou?

Get Your Church on the First Page of Google

Digital visibility and governance for faith communities — the earliest expression of the work now embodied in Ekklevo AI, the AI ministry platform for Christian churches. This book established that governance and digital strategy are not the exclusive domain of commercial organisations: faith communities, charities, and non-profits carry the same regulatory and reputational obligations.

2026 Relevance
UK GDPR and the EU AI Act apply to faith communities, charities, and non-profits as strictly as to commercial organisations. Data minimisation, transparency obligations, and automated processing rules apply to any organisation deploying digital or AI tools — regardless of charitable status. This book was the starting point. Ekklevo AI is where the journey has arrived.
ISBN
0993450903
Format
Paperback
Audience
Faith Leaders
Related
Ekklevo AI
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05 · December 2026
New Release

The Minute and the Machine

A governance professional’s guide to evidencing AI decisions

A short, practical book for company secretaries, trustees and boards. It shows how the records an organisation already keeps, the board paper, the minute, the scheme of delegation and the register, prove what an AI-assisted decision was, years after it was taken. The method behind it is published open access under a Creative Commons licence, so any organisation can apply it without engaging anyone.

The problem: the question nobody can answer
The instruments: paper, minute, delegation, register
The tests: six questions, and the law on retention
The year: the governance calendar, and when it goes wrong
Ten appendices, including a completed set for an academy trust
Get Notified on Substack → The published method
About the Author

A Practitioner's Record,
Not a Theorist's Manifesto

Ronke Jegede is a Fractional Chief AI Officer, AI Governance Architect, and Founder of Cardinal AI Systems and the Ethical Tech Institute. She has over 30 years of corporate governance experience, including seventeen years as company secretary of a charitable company, and has published on digital visibility, reputation management and regulatory risk since 2015.

These four books are part of the published record of that practice. The frameworks deployed through Cardinal AI Systems are not constructs developed in 2023; they come out of three decades of sitting inside governance risk in regulated organisations.

LLB in Law — Olabisi Onabanjo University
ICSA qualifying examinations passed 1994 · Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland, re-election to membership in progress
Leadership Training — Harvard Business School
Founder — Cardinal AI Systems · Meridian AI Systems · Ethical Tech Institute
40+ AI systems built · Author of the Lagos State AI Policy Framework, adopted at government level
Platforms & Properties
ronkejegede.com Cardinal AI Systems Ethical Tech Institute AI Governance Briefing LinkedIn Goodreads Author Page Amazon Author Page

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