Independent agent authority and control assessment.
Agent Authority & Control Assessment
Your agent framework has controls. Do they enforce your authority rules?
AI agents can access customer data, invoke tools, change records, and trigger consequential actions. Aivance independently tests whether the controls in your deployed agent environment enforce your organisation’s delegated authority rules, govern exceptions, and retain decision evidence your risk team can use.
Aivance assesses the controls already configured around your agents: what they allow, deny, escalate, and record when a consequential action is attempted.
30-minute initial review · Written scoping note within 48 hours · No obligation to proceed
Is this your situation?
The situations that bring clients to Aivance.
Your agents have access, but their delegated authority is unclear.
Your runtime controls exist, but nobody has tested them against real authority failures.
Your organisation cannot reconstruct who approved an exception, under which rule, and with what evidence.
What Aivance assesses
From delegated authority to observable control
Aivance does not begin with a preferred product. We begin with the business authority that must hold, then test whether the deployed technical controls enforce it.
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Consequential action
What can the agent actually do?
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Authority rule
Who or what is permitted to approve, deny, or escalate that action?
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Configured control
Which runtime, identity, workflow, or application control should enforce the rule?
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Adversarial test
Does the control hold when the action is attempted through normal and misuse paths?
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Decision evidence
Can the organisation reconstruct the action, authority, approval, policy/configuration version, outcome, and retained evidence?
Primary service
Agent Authority & Control Assessment
A three- to four-week independent assessment of the authority rules, configured controls, exception paths, and decision evidence around consequential agent actions.
Explore the assessmentEngagement sequence
Assess → Prioritise → Design → Implement with internal teams or specialist partners → Retest
Aivance can define remediation requirements and validate remediation evidence. Implementation is performed by the client’s internal teams or selected specialist partners unless explicitly agreed otherwise.
Research in progress
Authority in Practice: a comparative runtime control study
The Runtime Control Lab is developing a reproducible study of how common agent-control configurations behave when the same consequential scenario is tested against authority failures, exception paths, and misuse through allowed channels.
Singapore and Southeast Asia
Independent assessment for teams accountable for consequential agents.
Founder-led work for CROs, CISOs, internal audit leaders, AI programme leaders, enterprise architects, compliance leaders, technology executives, SI partners, and AI vendors selling into regulated enterprises.
Start with the Authority & Control Review.
A 30-minute initial discussion, followed by a written scoping note within 48 hours. No obligation to proceed.
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