Notes on governing enterprise data and AI.
Strategy and engineering perspectives on semantic governance, governed RAG, agents and compliance.
AI BOM: a bill of materials for every AI interaction
Software has a bill of materials. AI needs one too: a record of the models, data, and tools that went into a system and into each interaction. Here is what an AI BOM is and why the audit trail is where it comes from.
Audit & ComplianceWhy your application logs are not an AI audit trail
Your systems already log plenty. So why can you still not reconstruct what an AI did and why? Because application logs answer a different question, in a different shape, in a different place.
Audit & ComplianceThe AI audit trail: what enterprise AI needs to record, and why it is different
When an AI system makes a decision, can you reconstruct what happened and why? An AI audit trail is the structured record that makes the answer yes. It is not the same thing as an application log.
Agent GovernanceWhat to log on every MCP tool call, and why
Tool calls are where agents act on the world, so the record of tool calls is the record of what your AI actually did. Here is exactly what to capture, and why each field matters when something goes wrong.
Agent GovernanceScoped credentials: least privilege for agent tool calls
A tool with broad credentials hands its full power to any agent that can call it. Scoping credentials and parameters to the approved purpose is how you stop an agent from borrowing access it was never meant to have.
Agent GovernanceBuilding an approved MCP server and tool registry
You cannot govern tools you cannot see. An approved registry of MCP servers and tools is the inventory that everything else in tool governance depends on. Here is what belongs in it.
Agent GovernanceMCP governance: giving agents tools without giving up control
The Model Context Protocol lets agents discover and call tools across your enterprise. That is exactly what makes agents useful, and exactly what expands the control surface. Here is how to govern it.
Agent GovernanceHuman-in-the-loop approvals for high-impact agent actions
Not every agent action should be allowed automatically, and not every risky one should be blocked. For high-impact actions, the right control is often a human approval in the path. Here is how to design that well.
Agent GovernanceThe hand-off problem: governing what one agent passes to another
When one agent hands work to another, it usually hands over context too. That context can carry data the receiving agent was never meant to use. The hand-off is the moment most multi-agent systems leak.
Agent GovernanceAgent identity: why every agent needs an owner, a purpose, and a lifecycle
You cannot govern what you cannot name. Treating each agent as an identity with an owner, a purpose, and a lifecycle is the unglamorous foundation that makes everything else in agent governance possible.
Agent GovernanceAgent governance: a practical guide to controlling autonomous AI in the enterprise
An AI agent does not just answer questions. It takes actions, calls tools, and hands work to other agents. Each of those moments is a place control can slip. Agent governance is how you keep it.
Governed RAGCitations and lineage: how to make a RAG answer you can defend
A confident answer with no sources is a liability. Citations and lineage turn a RAG response into something a user can verify and an auditor can reconstruct.
Governed RAGChunk-level sensitivity: why RAG governance has to start at ingestion
You cannot govern at retrieval what you failed to understand at ingestion. Classifying sensitivity at the chunk level is the quiet foundation that makes governed RAG possible.
Governed RAGRelevance is not permission: the assumption that makes RAG leak
A vector database ranks chunks by how relevant they are to a question. It has no idea whether the person asking is allowed to see them. That single gap is where most RAG leaks begin.
Governed RAGGoverned RAG: how to put retrieval-augmented generation into production without leaking your own data
Retrieval-augmented generation is the quickest way to get value from your own data and the quickest way to expose it. Governed RAG closes that gap by applying policy to retrieval and context assembly. Here is the full picture.
Audit & ComplianceFrom deadline to durability: governing AI when the rules keep changing
AI regulation keeps shifting including EU AI Act timelines. Why durable, regulation-agnostic governance beats chasing a single enforcement date.
Data GovernanceOne control plane vs platform-native governance
Platform-native governance is strong inside its own estate but stops at the boundary. Why a neutral control plane fits a heterogeneous AI stack.
Context GovernanceGovern before AI reasons: why output guardrails break at scale
Output guardrails act after the model has already reasoned. Here's why that's fragile at enterprise scale and what governing before reasoning looks like.
Agent GovernanceAgent memory is your next governance gap
AI agents remember across turns, sessions and users. Most teams don't govern what's retained or recalled. Why memory is a first-class governance object.
Enterprise AI Control PlaneWhat a CISO should ask before approving an enterprise AI assistant
A practical checklist for security leaders evaluating an internal AI assistant or copilot: access, inference, memory, audit and shadow AI.
Governed RAGGoverned RAG: a reference pattern for putting retrieval into production
A practical pattern for production RAG: policy-aware retrieval, redaction, citations and lineage, so answers respect role, intent and sensitivity.
Context GovernanceSemantic leakage: the AI risk your DLP can't see
AI can reveal sensitive information through inference: surfacing a restricted conclusion with no restricted file ever accessed. Why file-level controls miss it.
Enterprise AI Control PlaneWhy most enterprise AI pilots stall (and why it's a context problem, not a model problem)
About 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots never reach measurable impact. The cause is usually the context and governance gap, not the model.
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