Touch Stone Publishers is a practice, not a product.
We build the institutional governance systems that make AI oversight, decision rights, and evidence discipline structurally inevitable for boards and executive teams operating under real governance pressure.
"We do not improve culture. We engineer results. If your strategic execution is left to chance or alignment meetings, you have already inherited a friction tax you cannot afford."Glenn E. Daniels II — Founder, Touch Stone Publishers
What Touch Stone is. What it is not.
The distinction matters at the board level. A consulting firm gives recommendations. A governance practice installs systems. Touch Stone installs systems.
How Touch Stone builds governance systems.
Every engagement follows a structured sequence. The sequence is the same whether the engagement begins with a Chairman's Briefing or a full Executive Lab. The depth changes. The structure does not.
Brief
Establish the board-level AI governance question and the immediate operating exposure. No assumptions. No pre-built frameworks applied before the problem is understood.
Map
Identify decision owners, oversight rights, escalation triggers, and missing evidence. Build the governance map the board needs before it is asked for one externally.
Stress-Test
Run realistic scenarios across legal, workforce, ROI, vendor, and disclosure pressure points. Surface the governance gaps before a regulator, litigator, or investor does.
Institutionalize
Convert the work into repeatable cadence, artifacts, and board-visible recordkeeping. Governance that exists only in a document has not been institutionalized.
MBB Editorial Rigor
Every Touch Stone deliverable meets MECE structure, Pyramid Principle argument flow, and Quadruple Red Team quality assurance before it leaves the practice.
Public Doctrine Only
Every framework element traces to NIST AI RMF, OECD AI Principles, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act, SEC enforcement, or Delaware oversight doctrine. No invented standards.
Touch Stone publishes under two distinct imprints.
The institutional governance work and the fiction that dramatizes it are kept structurally separate. Each imprint has its own editorial standard, its own audience, and its own purpose.
Touch Stone Executive
The institutional governance imprint. Produces MBB-caliber playbooks, white papers, executive labs, and board intelligence for Fortune 500 boards, C-suite teams, and chairpersons managing AI governance at scale.
- Executive AI Governance Playbooks
- Role-Specific Governance Playbooks
- White Papers and Governance Frameworks
- Executive Labs with artifact delivery
- Chairman's Briefing governance documents
- Daily Board Intelligence Brief
- Sector Intelligence (Mon-Fri rotation)
Touch Stone Narrative
The executive fiction imprint. Produces business novels that dramatize governance failures and recoveries for C-suite audiences. Fiction that teaches governance the way case studies cannot: through story.
- The Sequencing Error (second edition, ~69,000 words)
- The Verification Tax (~87,000 words)
- Executive fiction following the 6-part bestseller formula
- Governance failure narratives built for board-level readers
- Published through KDP and Lulu Press distribution
Touch Stone governance frameworks are named and owned.
A practice that has done the work long enough develops a vocabulary for that work. These are the proprietary frameworks that appear across Touch Stone playbooks, white papers, and executive labs.