Process
The assurance loop, end to end.
Simple to state, unforgiving in practice: no unit of important work is accepted until it survives independent review, and every step leaves evidence.
Define acceptance
Executive intent becomes testable acceptance criteria before any agent starts. If success cannot be stated precisely enough to verify, the work is not ready to delegate.
Agent Assured Delivery
Producing agents do the work and state their claims: what was built, what was changed, what was tested.
Independent adversarial review
A separate agent reviewer with a different mandate and enforced separation of duties vets the work: re-executing tests, querying live environments, etc. No agentic role checks its own homework.
Verification and composition
Beyond item-by-item checks, the work is exercised end to end the way it will actually be used, because components that pass individually still fail in composition.
Verdict and enforcement
Work that proves itself releases. Work that does not is returned for rework with specific findings, or quarantined. Ungated changes that reach protected territory trigger a halt and a human escalation with a rollback path.
Evidence preserved
Verdicts, findings, rework rounds, and waivers are bound into a tamper-evident evidence chain. Human decisions are explicit and recorded: oversight by design, not by heroics.
Chain of Custody
Every verdict is traceable end to end, prompt to proof. The same chain our partner DarkGravitas Inc teaches in its governance curriculum is the chain our gates enforce in production:
Humans stay where judgment belongs: setting acceptance, granting explicit waivers, and deciding at escalation points. Everything else is verified mechanically, at machine speed and scale.