An agentic AI clears a purchase order no one authorized. Now what?
The first AI governance playbook written specifically for consumer goods, from food and beverage to cosmetics, pet food, and household products, and the compliance issues each one faces.
Ebook, Paperback, and Hardcover
Thirty-five years in enterprise IT. Twenty of them inside consumer goods.
Robin Horstmann has spent more than two decades running technology inside consumer goods manufacturers and distributors, across home textiles, licensed apparel, wellness products, pet food, and packaged food. ERP implementations and recoveries, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and the warehouse, transportation, and plant floor systems that run operations. She is currently implementing generative and agentic AI.
She wrote The Governed Enterprise because no CPG-specific AI governance guide existed when she was earning her first AI governance credential.
Working References
AI Governance for Consumer Goods: The Regulatory Record
→ Regulatory Record
Every law, rule, and court ruling that shapes how consumer goods companies govern AI, dated and sourced, from the 1914 FTC Act to obligations landing in 2028. Reviewed on a stated cadence.
Which agencies regulate AI in consumer goods
→ Regulation
Which body governs which system, and what obligation attaches. FDA, USDA, FTC, EPA, and the European authorities, mapped to the AI a CPG company actually runs.
Board questions on AI governance
→ Board Questions
The questions a board should be asking about AI deployment, and what a complete answer sounds like.
Where to start
→ Where to Start
The first moves for a company that has AI in production and no governance around it.