---
title: "Risk tier"
description: "An organisation's own rating of an AI use case, computed at intake by a versioned policy from declared profile fields such as autonomy, decision impact, exposure, reversibility, vulnerable groups…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/risk-tier
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-25
---

# Risk tier

An organisation's own rating of an AI use case, computed at intake by a versioned policy from declared profile fields such as autonomy, decision impact, exposure, reversibility, vulnerable groups, data class and third parties. The tier selects the assessments, evals, thresholds, approvers and review cadence a system must pass; it sits beside the legal classification, not in place of it.

- Developed in: [ch. 13, Contributing factors and the use-case risk profile](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/risk-management#contributing-factors-and-the-use-case-risk-profile); [ch. 05, Pattern: Use-Case Intake & Risk Tiering](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/patterns/use-case-intake-risk-tiering)
- Chapters: [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns) · [ch. 06, The Role](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-role) · [ch. 12, Governance Program](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governance-program) · [ch. 13, Risk Management](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/risk-management)
- Contrast with: [High-risk AI system](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/high-risk-ai-system)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-risk-tier

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.