Runtime Authority Control

Deploy AI agents.Under deterministic control.

When AI can touch money, records, or customers, the risk model changes. CoherenceOS enforces hard runtime boundaries before anything executes.

Where we sit
LLM / AgentCoherenceOSTools / DB / Workflows
Deterministic enforcementSub-millisecond latencyCryptographic proof

Built for healthcare, finance, and other high-stakes workflows.

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When AI moves from suggesting to acting

Copilots are safe.
Agents that act are different.

The moment AI touches money, records, or customers, the failure mode changes.

AI executes a $480K wire transfer

Agent had no treasury approval for amounts over $50K

Finance discovered it 3 days later in reconciliation

AI approves an invasive procedure

Prior authorization required clinical sign-off

Regulatory exposure. Manual review of 2,000 records required.

AI sends a binding SLA commitment

Message created a contractual obligation

Legal exposure. Customer held the company to the AI's promise.

AI deletes 2,000 employee records

Destructive action with no human escalation

Silent authority expansion. Discovered during quarterly audit.

Monitoring sees this after it happens.

Governance stops it before it executes.

See how

The autonomy trap

Your AI ROI is trapped
behind the authority wall.

AI works in demos. It stalls the moment it crosses into binding actions.

01

AI Investment

You build AI agents to automate high-value workflows.

02

Binding Action

AI crosses into binding territory: payments, records, commitments.

03

Risk Exposure

Legal, compliance, and audit teams flag exposure.

04

Autonomy Pulled Back

Autonomy scaled back. Human approvals return.

Repeat. Indefinitely.

The real cost

ROI trapped in pilots
Months of deployment delays
Agents demoted to copilots

The missing piece is not better prompts. It is runtime authority control.

See how CoherenceOS breaks the cycle

How it works

How CoherenceOS works

Five runtime checks run before each governed action.

Step 1

AI proposes an action

An agent prepares a write, approval, payment, or outbound message.

01

Intercept at the commit boundary

CoherenceOS captures the action before anything reaches your systems.

02

Verify authority, evidence, and constraints

Runtime checks validate what is allowed and whether proof is sufficient.

03

Allow, safe rewrite, escalate, or block

The action gets a clear outcome before execution.

04

Issue a signed governance certificate

Each decision records what was allowed, what was blocked, and why.

05

Outputs

Signed decision recordEvidence of what was checkedHuman Assist queue routing

Always on · Real time · No extra setup required

Platform

Every AI action passes
through four hard boundaries.

These are not optional filters. Every action passes through all four layers before execution — continuously, in real time.

Institutional Authority

Defines what each agent can claim or commit. Blocks unauthorized actions.

8 of 15 acts
ActDecisionEvidence
Approve claimALLOWTier 0
Issue refundESCALATETier 1
Update beneficiaryALLOWTier 1
Override policyBLOCK
Delete recordBLOCK

Stability Constraints

Detects drift, pressure bias, and authority expansion. Escalates when thresholds breach.

3 active
Audit trail must be continuousLOCKED
Human review required above $10kLOCKED
Override requires supervisor approvalLOCKED
Confidence threshold before auto-approve

Execution Controls

Specifies which tools and actions each agent can trigger. Blocks disallowed calls.

3 of 5 enabled
update_claim_status
ON
send_email_notification
ON
query_medical_records
human reviewON
execute_payment
OFF
delete_record
OFF

Commit Validation

Verifies each proposed write is structurally safe. Issues signed certificate on approval.

2 active
claim_status_updateACTIVE
Evidence·Tier 0 required
Amount·$0 – $50,000
Mode·Auto-approve · cert issued
refund_executeACTIVE
Evidence·Tier 1 required
Amount·$0 – $100,000
Mode·Human approval required

All four modules run on every action — continuously, without configuration overhead.

Every decision leaves
a signed record.

Not a log. A proof of what was allowed and why.

governance-certificate·cert_8f3d2e1a
VALID
CertificateISSUED
idcert_8f3d2e1a-b92c-4d11-a7e3-9f2dc4501ee8
issued_at2026-02-25T14:08:22.413Z
agentinsurance-claims-agent · v1.4.2
actionAPPROVE_REFUND · CLM-2847
decisionESCALATE
evidence_checkedauthority · policy · tier-check
SHA-256 Payload Hash

a3f8d2c1e94b7f0d5a1c3e8b2f4d9a7c 1e3f5b7d9c2a4e6f8b0d2c4a6e8f0b2d

Digital Signature · Ed25519

MEQCIHv3kX9mZpR2NcWa8qL4uY1fBsT7AiAvP6nXdE3mQz9Rw CIBjK2tF8yNpO4vLsD1cH7eM5bW0gA3iU6rX9yQ2wE4nT8z...

Signature verified against tenant public key
tenant: acme-insurance · region: us-east-1↓ PDF

Payload hash

The full decision payload is hashed. Any change breaks verification.

Tenant signature

Each certificate is signed and can be verified with your public key.

Freshness hash

Each certificate binds to the governance revision hash used at decision time.

Audit bundle

Download a verification bundle containing signed certificate data and PDF evidence.

Not a monitoring log.

Proof of what was allowed and why, with evidence checks and governance revision bound together.

Dashboard + Outcomes

What this unlocks

Deploy agents that act, not just suggest. Increase autonomous throughput without increasing liability.

Autonomous claims processing

Handle clean claims end-to-end and escalate exceptions automatically.

Outcome:faster cycle time
Control:evidence tiers enforced
Proof:signed certificate

Autonomous underwriting

Run low-risk underwriting decisions with bounded authority.

Outcome:higher throughput
Control:policy + authority checks
Proof:decision trace

Autonomous revenue operations

Execute approved updates and reconciliations without manual bottlenecks.

Outcome:fewer operational delays
Control:commit validation
Proof:fresh governance hash

Autonomous finance workflows

Route high-value financial actions to human review at the right threshold.

Outcome:controlled automation
Control:Human Assist queue
Proof:audit-ready records

Who this is for

Built for teams deploying AI
where decisions carry exposure.

If AI decisions create financial, legal, or regulatory exposure — you need runtime authority control.

Healthcare Operations

Claims, coding, prior authorization

Binding Action

AI approves a prior auth for an invasive procedure

Risk

Patient safety, regulatory exposure, payer disputes

Control

Clinical authority boundaries, evidence tier requirements

Proof

Signed certificate for every approval decision

Financial Services

Payments, underwriting, disbursements

Binding Action

AI commits $500K in wire transfers

Risk

Financial loss, compliance violations, fraud exposure

Control

Amount limits, approval chains, audit logging

Proof

Cryptographic record of every transaction decision

Enterprise Operations

HR, IT, internal records, customer service

Binding Action

AI modifies employee records or sends binding responses

Risk

Legal liability, data integrity, contractual obligations

Control

Action-level permissions, human escalation triggers

Proof

Complete audit trail for compliance reporting

Built for decision-makers who own AI outcomes

Heads of Platform

Need agents that scale without risk

Compliance Leaders

Need proof for every AI decision

CTOs & VPEs

Need to ship AI without liability

Can you let this system approve $10M in payments?

If the answer is not yes, you need runtime authority control.

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Integrate in minutes

Install in minutes. API-first.

Your agent sends proposed mutations to the Commit Gate before execution.

curl -X POST /commit-gate/evaluate
01

Before agent commits

Intercept the proposed action before execution.

02

Check authority + evidence

CoherenceOS evaluates whether the action is allowed and if proof is sufficient.

03

Get a decision + certificate

The response includes the decision (ALLOW / ESCALATE / BLOCK) and a signed governance certificate.

commit-gate-evaluate
ready
Request
POST /commit-gate/evaluate
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "action": "approve_wire_transfer",
  "amount": 120000,
  "evidence_tier": "TIER_0"
}
Response
{
  "decision": "ESCALATE",
  "enforcement_mode": "hard_block",
  "certificate_id": "cert_8f3d2e1a",
  "revision_hash": "sha256:9c4f2b...",
  "reason": "amount > $10k requires human approval"
}

Response includes canonical decision, enforcement mode, revision hash, and certificate ID.

Comparison

Watching your AI is not the same as controlling it

Not a second AI reviewing your AI. A deterministic control layer at execution time.

Dimension

When it acts

Traditional

Reviews logs after execution

CoherenceOS

Enforces policy at execution time

Dimension

What it does

Traditional

Watches and reports

CoherenceOS

Intercepts and enforces

Dimension

How it responds

Traditional

Post-incident investigation

CoherenceOS

Blocks, escalates, or rewrites before execution

Dimension

Policy enforcement

Traditional

Prompt-level rules that agents can bypass

CoherenceOS

Runtime enforcement on every action

Dimension

Authority control

Traditional

Undefined — agents can attempt anything

CoherenceOS

Explicitly defined per agent, verified on every commit

Dimension

Proof of compliance

Traditional

Trust that it went fine

CoherenceOS

Signed certificate per decision (Ed25519, SHA-256)

Dimension

Category

Traditional

Monitoring

CoherenceOS

Runtime Governance

Safely increase autonomy over time

CoherenceOS lets you start with strict enforcement and relax thresholds as evidence accumulates. Move from copilots to fully autonomous workflows — without increasing liability.

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with real authority?

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