The firm builds agent operations that hold up before a board and an auditor: evidence for every action, the authority to halt at any time, and autonomy widened only against demonstrated performance.
The questions arrive after deployment, and they come from the audit committee rather than the engineering team: who authorized what the agent did, what record exists of each action, who holds the authority to halt the system, and on what performance its mandate was widened. A system that cannot answer them in writing has been permitted rather than governed; it has booked a liability and called it productivity.
The record runs in production. WellPay, a platform built and run by governed agents, carries SOC 2 Type 1 with 100% of controls passing. The Kerra governance system maintains an evidence chain with SHA-256 audit trails, holds the authority to halt in reserve at every moment, and extends autonomy only as performance earns it, under 832 tests at 83% coverage. Your agent operations can be built to the same account.