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Your role under the Standard

Before the screen-by-screen detail, it's worth being clear about what the RICS AI Standard actually makes you — the AI Lead — responsible for, and what Chronity does and doesn't take off your plate.

What stays yours

The Standard is built on the principle that a named qualified person takes professional responsibility. Software cannot do that. So these remain yours:

  • Deciding what's material. Chronity classifies against your firm's taxonomy, but you author and sign that taxonomy. The track a use case gets is your professional judgement, written down — not the AI's.
  • Standing behind the work. Reliability notes are auto-drafted in a surveyor's name (or their supervisor's). They are a starting point a qualified person stands behind, not a substitute for that person's judgement.
  • Signing the risk register. Chronity drafts it from the quarter's data; you edit it, add the qualitative judgement, and sign it. The signed version is the firm's official register.
  • Approving the alert rules. The detection rules ship as proposed; they become active for your firm when you accept them.
  • Answering the regulator. Chronity gives you the evidence; the conversation with RICS or a client is yours.

What Chronity takes off your plate

Everything clerical:

  • Writing a reliability note for every formal output by hand.
  • Remembering to dip-sample, and selecting the sample defensibly.
  • Building the quarterly risk register from a blank page.
  • Compiling audit numbers when someone asks.
  • Tracking who's acknowledged the AI policy.
  • Producing supplier due-diligence documentation.
  • Noticing when the audit trail has quietly stopped.

The bargain is simple: Chronity does the documentation; you do the judgement. That division is deliberate and it's what makes the output defensible — an auditor sees evidence produced systematically and a qualified person who owns it.

The mindset

Treat Chronity's outputs as a well-prepared first draft from a diligent assistant. You wouldn't send an assistant's draft out without reading it; equally, you wouldn't re-do their work from scratch. Read the reliability notes that matter, sanity-check the risk register before you sign it, glance at the alerts. That level of attention — informed oversight, not re-doing the work — is exactly what the Standard expects of a named professional, and it's a few minutes a week, not a second job.

Next: The MIA & use-case taxonomy — the foundation everything else rests on.