About

About Techné AI

A boutique advisory firm built on a published record.

The principal

Khullani M. Abdullahi, JD

Khullani M. Abdullahi is the founder of Techné AI. He holds a Juris Doctor and brings 14 years of commercialization experience across healthcare, biotechnology, and enterprise technology, with deep domain knowledge in AI governance frameworks, fiduciary duty, board oversight structures, and director and officer liability.

He has appeared on the Disruption Interruption and AI in Chicago podcasts, contributed to Risk Management magazine, and submitted official written testimony to the Illinois Senate Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media on the consolidation of frontier-AI safety legislation around SB 3261. He maintains the Illinois AI Legislative Ecosystem tracker and authored the AI Governance & D&O Liability briefing now in active circulation among boards and broker partners.

Khullani is pursuing the AIGP (AI Governance Professional), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), AAIA (Advanced in AI Audit), and ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor credentials. Techné AI is implementing an ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System with target firm certification in 2026–2027.

Disclosure

Khullani holds a Juris Doctor as an academic credential and does not practice law in any jurisdiction. Techné AI provides advisory services and does not provide legal advice. Engagements are advisory in nature; clients should consult licensed counsel and qualified insurance advisors for legal and coverage decisions.

The firm

Techné AI

Techné AI is a Chicago-based independent AI compliance advisory firm. We work with boards, general counsel, chief compliance officers, and the brokers and carriers who serve them.

The firm was founded on the conviction that the AI governance market needs a category of practitioner that does not yet exist at scale: small, fast, methodology-led, and structurally independent from technology vendors and from the Big 4 audit firms. Most boards do not need a software platform; they need defensible governance documentation, a regulatory horizon they can plan against, and an advisor who can speak fluently to their general counsel, their auditor, and their D&O carrier in the same conversation.

That is the work we do.

How we work

Every engagement is grounded in published methodology. Our work draws on:

NIST AI Risk Management Framework: NIST AI 100-1 and its supplementary profiles
ISO/IEC 42001: The international standard for AI Management Systems
SaferAI Frontier AI Risk Management Framework: Anwar et al., 2025
Proportionality literature on AI risk evaluation: Mukobi et al., 2026
AAL tiered assurance framework for AI auditing: Casper et al., 2026
Quantitative AI risk modeling: Drawing on MITRE ATT&CK decomposition and structured expert elicitation

Every engagement produces documented workpapers, a written report, and an attributable methodology. We do not issue formal third-party assurance reports under AICPA or ISO/IEC 17021-1 — that work is reserved for licensed CPA firms and accredited certification bodies. When formal attestation is required, we coordinate referrals to credentialed providers.

Independence

On independence

Techné AI does not sell software, technology integration, model deployment services, or licensed insurance products. We do not accept commissions or contingent fees from technology vendors or insurance carriers. We do receive referral compensation from broker partners on a disclosed basis.

We do not perform a compliance review on an organization where we have performed an implementation engagement within the prior 24 months. This is a structural separation we maintain so that our review work can be relied on by audit committees, general counsel, and insurance underwriters.

Our full Independence and Disclosures policy is published at /independence.