The AI Periodic Table
A practitioner's map of the AI stack, with the governance questions built in. Free, and it runs in your browser.
What it is
Every AI vendor now sounds the same, and the words do a lot of hiding. This is a map of what is actually underneath: seventeen AI building blocks plus two CaroKahn extensions, organised by family and by maturity, in two editions. One for general AI literacy, one for the SAP Business AI estate. Open it in your browser, nothing to install.
What's Inside
- Two editions in one place: AI Literacy for any team, and SAP Business AI for the SAP estate
- A governance lens that adds, for every block, the control objective, the key risks, and the framework clauses that bite: EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF
- Plain-language explanations for non-specialists, with the chemistry metaphor itself explained
- Reaction patterns showing how the blocks combine into real systems, from retrieval to autonomous agents
- Search, keyboard navigation, light and dark themes, and a layout that works on a phone
- Installable as an app, and fully usable offline once opened
Who it's for
- AI literacy and enablement leads who need a shared reference for their teams
- CISOs, risk and controls professionals sizing up AI against policy
- Consultants and advisers who evaluate AI architectures for clients
- SAP teams mapping the controls surface of Generative AI Hub, Joule and the wider Business AI stack.
Governance Lens
The governance lens shows you what to govern. It stops there by design. Knowing where your organisation actually stands against it, and closing the gaps, is the work CaroKahn does across Application Access Governance (AAG), Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), Data Protection & Security (DPS) and AI Risk & Controls (AIRC).
Privacy
It runs entirely in your browser. No account, no sign-in, no telemetry, nothing leaves your device. We built it that way on purpose.
Always current
AI moves quickly, and so does this. It runs from the web and is kept current as the field shifts, so what you open is always the latest version, with nothing to update or re-download.
Origin
The AI Periodic Table framework is adapted from IBM Technology's openly published model and attributed in the tool. The interactive treatment, the two CaroKahn extension elements, the governance lens, the reaction overlays and the SAP edition are © 2026 CaroKahn Ltd.