Governance

Reviewable by design

We design workflows to be useful, reviewable, and safe in day-to-day operations. Outputs are treated as assistive recommendations unless explicitly agreed otherwise — with human gates on anything customer-facing, financial, or compliance-sensitive.

AI email workflow example showing classify, route, and draft steps with human approval before send
Core standards

Three pillars of quality control

Review, content integrity, and measurement — applied consistently across assistants, workflow automation, and multi-agent programmes.

Review model

Human approval remains mandatory for customer-facing or financially material actions. Low-confidence outputs route to manual review. Changes are logged to support audit and coaching.

Human gates Confidence routing Audit logs

Content & data

No fabricated claims, relationships, or event references. Only approved data sources and agreed access boundaries. Client tone and policy constraints preserved in generated drafts.

Source of truth Access boundaries Brand guardrails

Measurement

Every pilot tracked against baseline metrics — speed, quality, and outcome indicators. Expansion decisions made on measured performance, not volume of generated output.

Baseline KPIs Quality gates Stop rules
Operational guardrails

What we enforce in production

Assistive, not autonomous

Agents draft, classify, and route — your team approves before anything reaches a customer, ledger, or regulator.

Evidence-linked outputs

Claims tied to retrievable sources where the domain requires it — bids, compliance packs, and customer comms included.

Fail closed on ambiguity

Low confidence or policy conflict stops the workflow and escalates — rather than guessing and hoping.

Observable by default

Structured logs for runs, tool calls, and human decisions so operations and audit can reconstruct what happened.

Human gates

Validation before action

The agent run loop includes explicit checkpoints — not bolted on after the fact. For how triggers, tools, and gates execute in practice, see How agentic workflows run.

  1. Trigger & classify

    Event arrives from email, queue, schedule, or webhook. Intent and risk tier assigned before any outbound action.

  2. Draft & validate

    Agent retrieves approved sources, drafts the next step, and runs validation rules against policy and confidence thresholds.

  3. Human sign-off

    High-risk paths pause for explicit approval. Approved actions are logged; rejected paths return to manual handling.

Governance & deployment → · SOC 2 readiness patterns →

Comparison diagram showing governed agentic workflows with human approval gates versus ungoverned chatbot responses
Where standards apply

Governance across delivery types

The same review discipline applies whether you are shipping a single assistant or a multi-workflow programme. See how we work for the engagement lifecycle.

Customer-facing assistants

Brand guardrails, escalation paths, and approval before any message leaves your environment.

Finance & operations

Exception handling, coding, and follow-up workflows with audit trails operations can defend.

Tender & bid packs

Evidence-linked drafts and human review before submission — no unsourced claims in live packs.

Compliance & SOC 2

Structured evidence collection, gap analysis, and controls suitable for security-conscious buyers.

Further reading

Go deeper on governance

Measurement · Pilots

KPIs for AI pilots that hold up

Baseline discipline, leading vs lagging indicators, and explicit stop rules for month three reviews.

Mechanics · Human gates

How agentic workflows run

Triggers, tools, validation layers, and human gates in the agent run loop.

Definition · Agentic AI

What is agentic AI?

Governed workflows, chatbot distinctions, and when orchestration is the right shape.

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