Policy checks
Validate inputs and proposed actions against agreed rules before anything is written.
Security & governance
Guardrails and Safer Autonomy
Guardrails keep agents within agreed limits: policy checks before actions, approval thresholds for sensitive steps and stop conditions when something is uncertain.
Types of guardrails
Combined according to the risk of each action.
Approval thresholds
Require a person above a value, risk level or confidence limit.
Stop conditions
Pause and hand over when information is missing or answers conflict.
How guardrails are designed
Proportionate to the impact of each action.
List actions
Every action the agent may take.
Rate impact
What could go wrong and how reversible it is.
Set controls
Checks, approvals and stop conditions per action.
Test failures
Try edge cases before launch.
Autonomy is earned, not assumed
Actions can move from approval to automatic only with evidence and your agreement.
- Start sensitive actions with human approval.
- Review outcomes before relaxing a threshold.
- Changes to instructions or tools are approved before rollout.
Common questions
No. Changes to instructions, tools or thresholds are made by people, tested and approved before release.
The action is held and the case goes to the agreed person or queue with the reason.
We choose the model and provider for each task during scoping, based on the language, accuracy, latency and data-handling requirements. The workflow is not tied to one provider, so a step can be changed later if the agreed requirements change.
Discovery call
Start with the work that slows you down.
Bring us a process, a recurring enquiry or a pile of documents. We will explore where agents fit and what a useful implementation needs.
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