How does this help before we have decided on an AI strategy?

Waiting for strategic clarity before doing governance work is common and inverts the dependency. Whichever direction an organization takes, it will need to know what it holds, how it is classified, who may see it and how long it is kept.

Centralpoint's first phase produces exactly that: a characterized estate, a governance dictionary in the organization's own vocabulary, taxonomy and audience assignments on records. If the AI strategy changes, none of it is wasted, because the substrate is the durable part and the model was always the interchangeable one.