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Your AI agents are making decisions. Who is governing them?

The EU AI Act is enforcing. SOC 2 auditors are asking about your AI agents by name. Your board wants proof of governance. And right now, you cannot tell them which agents are running, what they decided, or whether any of it was authorized.

The AI Agent Governance Registry changes that permanently.

The Governance Gap Is Wider Than You Think

73%

of enterprises have zero formal governance over their AI agents

Gartner 2025 AI Governance Survey

4.2x

more compliance violations in orgs without agent registries

Forrester AI Risk Report

$2.8M

average cost of an AI governance failure in regulated industries

Ponemon Institute 2025

0%

of surveyed organizations can cryptographically prove what their AI agents did last Tuesday

AgentAAS Internal Research

Live Registry View

Your Entire AI Fleet. One Immutable Ledger.

This is what governance looks like. Every agent registered. Every action counted. Every hash verifiable. Color-coded so violations cannot hide.

agentaas-registry --live --chain-verify --compliance-scoreCHAIN INTEGRITY: VERIFIED
REGISTRY v4.2.1 — 8 agents registered● 6 compliant▲ 2 warnings✕ 1 violationLast sync: 1.7s ago
AGENT IDNAMETYPESTATUSCOMPLIANCEACTIONSCHAIN HASH
AGT-0041CostOptimizer-v3AutonomousActive98%12,8470x7a3f...e291
AGT-0042RiskScanner-v2SupervisedActive100%8,2910x9b1c...d483
AGT-0043ComplianceBot-v1AutonomousActive97%34,1020x2e8d...f752
AGT-0044DataClassifier-v4HybridWarning74%6,5190x5f2a...b109
AGT-0045VendorAudit-v2SupervisedActive95%2,3080x8c4e...a637
AGT-0046IncidentResp-v1AutonomousViolation31%9470x1d7b...c894
AGT-0047ReportGen-v5HybridActive99%19,4410x6a9f...d215
AGT-0048PolicyEnforce-v2AutonomousWarning68%4,7730x3b5c...e478
SHA-256 chain depth: 1,247,891 blocks|Total actions tracked: 89,228|Next audit window: 00:14:32|All hashes verified via Cloud KMS

Core Capabilities

What the Registry Does

Six capabilities that transform your AI fleet from an ungoverned risk into a provably compliant asset.

📋

Register Every Agent

Automatic discovery and registration of every AI agent operating across your infrastructure. No agent runs unregistered. No shadow AI escapes inventory.

  • Auto-discovery across cloud & on-prem
  • Mandatory registration before deployment
  • Owner, purpose, and risk-tier assignment
  • Shadow AI detection and quarantine
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Cryptographic Chain-of-Custody

Every action every agent takes is SHA-256 hashed and linked into a tamper-evident chain backed by Cloud KMS. If an auditor asks what happened, you have cryptographic proof.

  • SHA-256 action hashing via Cloud KMS
  • Tamper-evident chain linking
  • Cryptographic non-repudiation
  • Third-party verifiable proof
📊

Continuous Compliance Scoring

Real-time compliance scores for every agent against 17 governance frameworks. Scores update continuously as agents act, not quarterly when it is too late.

  • 17-framework simultaneous scoring
  • Real-time score degradation alerts
  • Per-agent and fleet-wide dashboards
  • Trend analysis and drift detection
🛡️

Policy Binding & Enforcement

Bind governance policies directly to agents. When an agent violates a policy, enforcement is automatic, not a Slack notification someone ignores.

  • Policy-as-code binding to agents
  • Automatic enforcement actions
  • Escalation chains with SLA tracking
  • Policy version pinning per agent
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Version Control & Deployment Gates

No agent reaches production without passing governance gates. Every version change is tracked, diffed, and approved before deployment.

  • Pre-deployment compliance gates
  • Version diff and impact analysis
  • Rollback with full audit trail
  • Approval workflows with RBAC
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Board-Ready Audit Trail

One-click export of complete agent histories, decision chains, and compliance postures. Formatted for auditors, regulators, and board presentations.

  • One-click audit package export
  • Regulator-ready report templates
  • Complete decision reconstruction
  • Microsecond-precision timestamps

Day-One Discoveries

What It Finds on Day One

These are real findings from production environments. Every organization that deploys the registry discovers governance gaps they did not know existed.

critical

5 AI agents operating in production with no registered owner

Unowned agents are ungoverned agents. Under the EU AI Act, every high-risk AI system must have a designated responsible party. These five agents have been making autonomous decisions with zero accountability chain.

critical

Agent IncidentResp-v1 escalated privileges 3 times without authorization

This autonomous agent bypassed its permission boundary and accessed systems outside its approved scope. Without the registry, these escalations would have gone completely undetected.

high

CostOptimizer-v2 made 12,847 financial decisions with no human review checkpoint

Autonomous decision volume exceeded the human-in-the-loop threshold by 18x. Your SOC 2 controls require review checkpoints every 700 decisions. You are 17x over the limit.

high

Cross-agent dependency chain creates catastrophic single point of failure

Seven production agents depend on DataClassifier-v4 for PII detection. If it fails, downstream compliance scoring halts across the entire fleet. One agent going down takes seven with it.

warning

PolicyEnforce-v2 running on a policy version from 8 months ago

The agent responsible for enforcing your policies is itself operating on outdated policies. Six critical governance updates were missed. It is enforcing rules that no longer exist.

warning

3 agents deployed to production bypassing all governance gates

These agents were deployed directly via CI/CD with no compliance check, no risk assessment, and no approval workflow. They have been running ungoverned for 47 days.

The average enterprise discovers 11 critical governance gaps within the first 72 hours of registry deployment. The question is not whether you have gaps, it is how many.

Regulatory Pressure

The Compliance Clock Is Ticking

Regulators are no longer asking if you govern your AI. They are asking you to prove it. Here is what is already in force, and what is coming.

EU AI Act

ENFORCING

August 2025: High-risk provisions active

All high-risk AI systems must be registered, monitored, and auditable with human oversight mechanisms. Fines up to 35M EUR or 7% of global revenue.

SOC 2 Type II

AUDIT WINDOW

Continuous: Your next audit is coming

AI agents processing customer data must demonstrate continuous monitoring, access controls, and complete audit trails. Auditors are now specifically asking about AI governance.

ISO 27001:2022

UPDATED

2025 revision includes AI-specific controls

Annex A now includes controls for AI system inventory, risk assessment, and monitoring. Your existing certification may be at risk without AI governance coverage.

NIST AI RMF

ACTIVE

Federal contractors: mandatory compliance path

Map, measure, and manage AI risks across the lifecycle. Requires AI system inventories, impact assessments, and continuous monitoring, exactly what the registry provides.

HIPAA + AI Guidance

NEW GUIDANCE

HHS enforcement actions increasing in 2025-2026

AI agents handling PHI must maintain complete audit trails, access logs, and decision records. The OCR is actively investigating AI-related breaches.

Non-compliance is no longer a theoretical risk.

The EU AI Act alone carries fines of up to 35 million EUR or 7% of global annual revenue, whichever is higher. And that is just one framework. You need coverage across all of them.

How It Works

From Ungoverned to Provable in Four Steps

The registry deploys in hours, not months. Here is the path from zero governance to cryptographic proof.

01

Register

Every AI agent is discovered, cataloged, and registered with owner, purpose, risk tier, and governance policies. No agent operates in the shadows.

02

Monitor

Continuous real-time monitoring of every action every agent takes. Every decision is hashed and chained into a cryptographic audit trail.

03

Score

Compliance scores update in real time against 17 frameworks simultaneously. Violations trigger automatic enforcement, not next-quarter reports.

04

Report

Board-ready audit packages generated in one click. Complete chain-of-custody proof for regulators, auditors, and executive leadership.

Average time to first compliance report: 4 hours

YOUR AGENTS ARE RUNNING RIGHT NOW

Every minute without governance is a minute your AI agents are creating unauditable risk

Your competitors are registering their agents. Your regulators are writing enforcement actions. Your auditors are preparing their questions. The only question is whether you will have answers.

Deploy the AI Agent Governance Registry. Get your first compliance report in 4 hours. Sleep knowing every agent is registered, every action is tracked, and every decision is provable.

SOC 2 · EU AI Act · ISO 27001 · NIST AI RMF · HIPAA · 12 more frameworks covered