Deploy Agents Fast.
Govern Them Faster.

AI agent governance is the policy framework controlling what agents can do, when they can act autonomously, how their actions are logged, and how humans intervene when needed. It covers permission architecture (what tools each agent can call), audit trails (logging every action), behavioral monitoring (detecting anomalies), and incident response (what happens when something goes wrong).

Without governance, agents operate as black boxes — you cannot reconstruct what happened, detect drift, or explain decisions to regulators or clients. Gartner predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled or fail by 2027 due to inadequate governance. Governance is not overhead; it is the infrastructure that makes agents trustworthy enough to scale.

Tiered autonomy assigns a risk level to every agent action: AUTO (executes without approval — read operations, research), AUTO+ (executes and notifies — low-risk writes), PROPOSE (executes with a 15-minute rollback window — medium-risk actions like drafting emails), CONFIRM (requires explicit human approval before execution — high-risk actions), BLOCK (hardcoded no-op — prohibited regardless of instructions). This is our production-proven governance architecture, running live in the Inscape 8-agent system.

Sentinel is our dedicated governance watchdog agent. Before any PROPOSE or CONFIRM tier action executes, Sentinel validates it against your configurable business rules — checking for policy violations, data handling requirements, and content quality. If an action fails validation, it is blocked and the requesting agent receives a structured error. Sentinel also runs a 60-second health monitoring loop across all other agents.

The EU AI Act requires high-risk AI systems to have: a risk management system, automated logging (audit trail), human oversight mechanisms, and transparency to affected users. Our governance framework addresses all four: tiered autonomy implements human oversight, the audit trail satisfies logging requirements, Sentinel handles risk management, and our disclosure templates handle transparency. Governance is the compliance layer.

Yes. Agent discovery and inventory covers all agents in your environment — including vendor agents (Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Einstein, custom GPTs), not just agents we built. We map existing agents into your governance framework, implement behavioral monitoring, and add audit logging where the vendor API permits it.