The framework and fifteen module scopes
Tier definitions with their documentary tests, six governance dimensions per module, cited evidence bases, declared limitations, and overview PDFs. Free, no account, no email required.
Product register · reviewed 29 August 2026
Every named NSAG product, and exactly why it is not offered.
Compass, Brief, Index, Profile, module subscriptions, analyst access, and automated report delivery were named publicly before they existed. This register keeps every one of those names visible with its true status attached, because a name that disappears teaches a reader nothing and a name left standing without a status is a promise.
No checkout or subscription contract is active. No price shown in any earlier version of this site is presently offered, reserved, charged, renewed, cancelled, or automatically fulfilled. The fifteen module self-assessments are retired and cannot be taken; no tier report is generated.
The register
| Named concept | Status | What remains before release |
|---|---|---|
| NSAG Compass | Not offered | A source registry, an observed monitoring cadence rather than a claimed one, human review of every item, a sample issue, and defined delivery and failure handling. |
| NSAG Brief | Not offered | An editorial calendar capacity can meet, a research protocol, source and current-through controls on every claim, a correction mechanism, and a sample issue. Set out in full on the Brief status page. |
| NSAG Index | Not offered | An approved cohort methodology, participant consent, minimum-cell rules, de-identification review, and a published statement of what the benchmark cannot support. |
| NSAG Profile | Human-scoped only | A custom governance brief may be discussed inside a separately defined engagement. It is not produced automatically from a submitted self-assessment, and no self-assessment is running. |
| Analyst or Q&A access | Not offered | Scope, capacity, a response standard someone is accountable to, confidentiality terms, support, and cancellation terms. |
| Module assessments & tier reports | Retired | Not scheduled for return. The tier criteria they were built on remain public in the framework, which is the part that was doing the work. |
Why the gaps are the interesting part
Each row's third column is short, and each item in it is the same kind of thing: a control that would make the product accountable to the person receiving it. That is not a coincidence. The framework NSAG publishes argues that an institution producing effects it has not specified, measured, or assigned accountability for is Early Stage governance regardless of its intentions. A product shipped without those controls would be exactly that.
So the register is not an apology for slow progress. It is the framework applied to its own author, and the outcome is legible: the analysis is ready and the delivery infrastructure is not. Publishing the analysis and withholding the infrastructure is the honest ordering of those two facts.
What a benchmark would actually require
The Index is worth expanding on, because “we benchmarked ourselves against peers” is the single most requested thing in governance work and the easiest to do badly. A defensible benchmark needs a cohort defined in advance rather than assembled from whoever responded; consent from participating institutions covering the comparison itself, not just the data collection; a minimum-cell rule so that no institution is identifiable by elimination in a small sector; a de-identification review by someone who did not build the dataset; and a published statement of the questions the benchmark cannot answer. Without all five, a benchmark launders a convenience sample into an authority claim. NSAG has none of the five, so it offers no benchmark.
What is available now
Evidence, analysis, and applied work
The reading behind the modules, written analysis, and what the framework looks like in use.
A scoped conversation
A person can discuss the framework, its intended use, and whether a separately scoped research or advisory project makes sense. No automated recommendation and no instant deliverable is implied.
The operations matrix
Module by module, what is public, what is a retired legacy deployment, and what is delivered by a person.
The release standard
A concept moves from “not offered” to “offered” only when its audience, scope, deliverable, sample, price, capacity, billing, delivery, review, confidentiality, support, cancellation, data use, and declared limitations all agree — across this site, the operating system behind it, and whatever a customer would be told in writing. Agreement across all three is the point: most product failures of this kind are not lies but drift, where the site says one thing, the invoice says another, and the person answering email says a third.
Until a concept clears that, it stays on this register with its name intact and its status stated.
Statuses describe NSAG's own products and are stated by NSAG. Register reviewed 29 August 2026 against the site's operations matrix and the paused-services list on the home page.