Govern agentic AI without giving up control
Autonomous agents are only as safe as the controls around them. We wrap every model and tool call in policy, approvals, and immutable lineage — all inside your own perimeter.
- Policy-enforced action layer
- Model & prompt governance
- End-to-end decision lineage
- Audit-ready by design
What governance actually covers
Six layers that turn an autonomous agent from a liability into an auditable system of record.
Data perimeter
Inference, retrieval, and storage stay inside your network. No prompts or documents transit a vendor cloud.
Policy-enforced actions
Every tool call is gated by risk class, scoped credentials, and spend limits before it can run.
Decision lineage
Immutable records of the prompt, model, sources, tool calls, and approvals behind each action.
Model governance
Pinned model versions, change review, eval gates, and rollback so behavior never drifts silently.
Human approval gates
High-stakes steps pause for a reviewer; anything off-policy is queued as an exception, not executed.
Source-grounded retrieval
Answers cite the internal documents they came from, with per-source access controls enforced.
From open-loop agent to governed system
We retrofit controls onto agents you already run, or build them in from day one.
Map
Inventory every action an agent can take and assign each a risk class and required approver.
Gate
Wrap tool calls in the policy layer — credentials, limits, and approval rules enforced at the boundary.
Record
Stream immutable lineage for every run to logs and your SIEM, never to an outside service.
Attest
Map controls to your frameworks and generate the evidence auditors and regulators ask for.
Your data never leaves your perimeter
Most governance pitches are really dashboards that quietly route your prompts and documents through someone else's infrastructure. That is not governance — it is a second data-exfiltration path with a nicer UI.
We instrument agents where your data already lives: on-prem, in your VPC, hybrid, or fully air-gapped. The policy engine, the lineage store, and the eval harness all run inside your boundary, under credentials you control and rotate.
- On-prem, VPC, hybrid, or air-gapped deployment
- Lineage and telemetry written to logs you own
- Scoped, rotatable credentials per agent and tool
Ungoverned agent vs. governed agent
The difference between a clever demo and something you can put in front of an auditor.
| Ungoverned agent | Governed by Automatic.co | |
|---|---|---|
| Actions | Executes freely with broad credentials | Gated by risk class, scope, and limits |
| High-risk steps | Runs them automatically | Pause for human approval |
| Traceability | Scattered logs, if any | Immutable end-to-end lineage |
| Data path | Often through a vendor cloud | Stays inside your perimeter |
| Compliance | Manual scramble at audit time | Controls mapped, evidence on demand |
Related security & infrastructure
Governance works alongside the rest of the private-AI stack.
Frequently asked questions
Does any of our data leave our environment under your governance model?
No. Governance is designed around your perimeter: agents run on-prem, in your VPC, or air-gapped, and prompts, retrieved context, and outputs stay inside it. Telemetry and lineage are written to logs you own — nothing is shipped to a third-party dashboard.
How do you stop an agent from taking an action it shouldn't?
Every tool call passes through a policy-enforced action layer. Each action carries a risk class, scoped credentials, and rate and spend limits. High-risk steps require human approval, and anything outside policy is blocked and routed to an exception queue rather than executed.
Can we prove what an agent did for an auditor?
Yes. We capture immutable decision lineage for every run — the prompt, model and version, retrieved sources, each tool call and its result, approvals, and the final action. It exports to your SIEM and produces audit-ready records mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or your internal control framework.
Which controls map to compliance frameworks?
Access scoping, change management, logging, and human review map directly to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control families; data-residency and PHI handling map to HIPAA and GDPR. We document the mapping so your existing audit program covers the agents too.
Put your agents under controls you can defend
Bring one agent you already run. We'll map its actions, show you the gaps, and the lineage it should be leaving behind.