Agentic Trust & Governance
Your board will ask what your agents did. Be ready to prove it.
AI agents now act on your behalf across systems, data, and customers. Oversight has become an audit question, and audits run on evidence. We help leadership teams put the controls, ownership, and proof in place before the auditor, the insurer, or the customer asks.
The standard just changed. The evidence hasn't caught up.
On September 30, 2026, six frontier AI labs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. They committed to internal controls, an internal team to verify them, independent external audits, and a board committee that acts on the findings.
It was voluntary to sign. It is not voluntary once a board holds an auditor's report. And it won't stay with six labs: these controls are already moving into security questionnaires, vendor diligence, and contract terms. Every company running AI agents, including the growing number running open-weight models on their own infrastructure, inherits the same question.
Most can't answer it yet. 84% of enterprises doubt they could pass an audit of agent behavior, and only 21% keep a real-time inventory of their agents (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026).
Sept 30, 2026
Six frontier labs sign the accord
84%
of enterprises doubt they could pass an agent audit
21%
keep a real-time inventory of their agents
The accord was signed by six labs. It lands on every company.
Four ways in. One standard: provable.
Each engagement maps to the four layers auditors will test: controls, ownership, independent review, and board oversight. Start where you are.
Agent Trust Assessment
2 to 3 weeks
Know where you stand before anyone else asks.
We inventory the agents and machine identities acting in your business, map them against your policies and risks, and show you exactly where the gaps are.
You get: an agent and identity inventory, a policy-to-risk map, a prioritized gap report, and a 30-minute briefing for your board or audit committee.
Governance Sprint
6 to 8 weeks
Close the gaps and build the evidence.
We design the controls, define who owns them, and architect how proof of every agent action is captured, so your answer to an auditor is a record, not a narrative.
You get: control design, an evidence architecture covering traceability, policy mapping, and auditable records, a vendor-neutral technology evaluation, a board committee charter, and an audit-ready playbook.
Trust Advisory Retainer
Monthly
An operator on call while the standard takes shape.
We stay alongside leadership as auditors, insurers, customers, and regulators raise the bar.
You get: quarterly board reporting, auditor and insurer liaison, support answering customer security questionnaires, and a running view of emerging standards.
Fractional AI Trust Officer
Embedded
Senior ownership of AI governance inside your company, until a full-time hire makes sense.
You get: an accountable owner for agent oversight, reporting to the CEO and board, with the operating experience to make it practical.
Built for the leaders who will be asked first.
The Mid-Market CEO
Your teams are deploying agents faster than your governance can track them. Your board has started asking how they are controlled. We give you a clear answer and a plan to back it up.
The PE Operating Partner or Board Member
AI risk now sits in every portfolio review, exit diligence, and D&O renewal. We assess portfolio companies against one consistent standard and fix what matters most.
The AI-Native Vendor
Your enterprise customers' security questionnaires now ask how your agents are governed and how you prove it. We help you answer with evidence, and shorten the sales cycle.
The Growth-Stage Company
You don't have an AI governance owner yet, but your first enterprise deal, regulator letter, or agent incident says you need one. We step in as that owner until you're ready to hire.
Judgment first. Vendors second.
We recommend architectures, not products. Every technology evaluation scores what your business actually needs (provable agent identity, policy that travels with each action, tamper-evident evidence, and post-quantum readiness) against a vendor-neutral standard. Any vendor that meets it qualifies.
We take no referral fees or commissions from any vendor we evaluate. Our only incentive is that your answer holds up in front of the board and the auditor.
Disclosure: Mark Anderson also serves as Chief Revenue Officer of Vorixs, a provider of agent trust infrastructure. We disclose this in every engagement, and where Vorixs is a candidate, vendor selection is made by the client or an independent evaluator.
The thinking behind the practice
The standard is set. Let's make sure you can meet it.
Start with a two-to-three-week Agent Trust Assessment. You'll know exactly where you stand, and what to fix first, before anyone else asks.
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