The governance and control layer for enterprise AI. Govern every agent action, connect any AI estate, deploy in your own environment, and automate compliance — without rebuilding your agents.
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The Problem
AI can reason probabilistically. Its authority should not.
AI agents are moving from answering questions to taking actions — moving data, updating records, sending messages, touching production systems, and executing tasks that carry real consequence. Organizations gave them that reach to move faster.
But the same model that writes a helpful summary can, on a bad day, misread an instruction and take an action nobody authorized. When an agent acts directly against live systems with no layer in between, a single wrong step can be irreversible — and there may be no record of what happened or why.
GuardRail closes that gap. It sits between your agents and the actions they take, so every consequential action is checked, gated, and recorded — and you keep the speed of AI without handing it unchecked authority over your business.
Agents act fast
Autonomous actions happen in milliseconds, across many systems, faster than humans can watch.
Mistakes are consequential
A misread instruction can move money, delete data, or send the wrong message — irreversibly.
No record, no control
Without a control layer, there is nothing to gate the action and nothing to prove what occurred.
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What GuardRail Is
A control point on every consequential action.
GuardRail is a governance and control layer for enterprise AI. Before an agent takes a consequential action, GuardRail evaluates it against your policies and returns a decision. Only permitted actions proceed. Everything is recorded.
Agent decides
The agent determines it wants to take an action.
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GuardRail evaluates
The action is checked against your policies and context.
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Decision returned
Allow, hold, deny, or stop — in real time.
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Recorded
The decision and outcome land in a tamper-evident ledger.
ALLOW
action proceeds
HOLD
pauses for approval
DENY
blocked by policy
STOP
agent halted instantly
FAIL-SAFE
If GuardRail is ever unreachable, consequential actions default to hold or deny — never a silent allow. Safety does not depend on the network being perfect.
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What GuardRail Governs
The actions that actually carry consequence.
GuardRail focuses on the actions where a wrong move costs something real — across every department and system your agents touch.
Financial
Money & commitments
Payments, transfers, refunds, purchasing, and financial commitments.
Operational
Systems & production
Production changes, infrastructure actions, and critical operational tasks.
Data
Sensitive data
Access, movement, deletion, and disclosure of sensitive records.
Workforce
People & HR
Employee data, compensation actions, and privileged access changes.
Legal
Agreements & obligations
Contract actions, external commitments, and obligations.
External
Outbound communication
Messages, emails, and actions that leave the organization's boundary.
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How It Works
Observe. Enforce. Approve. Record.
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Observe
Every agent action streams through GuardRail in real time — captured as it happens.
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Enforce
Policies and access rules evaluate each action; out-of-bounds is blocked, high-risk is held.
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Approve
Held actions route to the right human — with separation of duties on sensitive ones.
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Record
Every decision is written to a tamper-evident, append-only ledger.
Policy Engine
Your rules, enforced on every action. Authored centrally; applied everywhere.
Human Approval
High-stakes actions pause for the right approver, with separation of duties.
Kill Switch
Halt one agent — or the whole estate — the moment behavior drifts.
Evidence Ledger
Hash-chained, append-only record of every decision — provable and exportable.
Real-Time Monitoring
Live view of agent activity, with alerts on defined conditions.
Access Control
Scoped, least-privilege control over what each agent can see and do.
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How It Connects
Plug into the AI you have — no rebuild required.
Your agents don't live in one platform, so GuardRail meets them where they run. Connect the whole estate through whichever method fits, without replacing the systems your agents run on.
SDK
A lightweight library your agent calls before it acts. A few lines gate any action and return a decision — the fastest path for custom agents.
REST / Webhook
Any system that can make an HTTP request can consult GuardRail — language- and framework-agnostic.
Tool / MCP Proxy
Sit in front of an agent's tools so every tool call is governed automatically — govern the estate without touching agent code.
Cloud Estate Connectors
Discover and govern agents running across cloud AI services and gateways under one authority model.
ONE MODEL
Different agents, different environments, one governance model — applied consistently across all of them.
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Where It Deploys & How It's Secured
Runs in your environment. Your data stays yours.
GuardRail is a self-contained service that deploys inside your environment. Governance data — the registry, decisions, and the evidence ledger — stays within your perimeter and is never sent to an outside service.
Deployment
Private Cloud / VPC
Runs inside your own cloud tenancy, on your network.
Deployment
On-Premises
Deploy fully within your own data center.
Deployment
Isolated / Air-Gapped
Self-contained with no external dependencies — suitable for offline, restricted instances.
Data Residency
Your governance data stays in your environment. Nothing leaves your perimeter.
Encryption & Access
Encrypted storage and transport; token-gated console and per-agent keys.
Isolation
Single-tenant or isolated deployment — no shared data planes across customers.
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Compliance Automation
Set your frameworks. GuardRail enforces to them.
Select the frameworks your organization operates under, and GuardRail applies the matching control posture — tightening what agents may do and producing the evidence those frameworks expect. Compliance stops being a document and becomes something the platform enforces on every action.
SOC 2
Controls and audit evidence aligned to trust-services criteria.
ISO 27001
Information-security controls mapped to agent actions.
HIPAA
Tighter gating on sensitive health data access and disclosure.
GDPR
Controls over personal-data movement and processing.
PCI-DSS
Stricter posture around payment-related actions.
EU AI Act
Oversight and record-keeping aligned to AI-specific obligations.
HOW IT WORKS
Choosing a framework loads its control set, adjusts default policies, and tags every decision — so the evidence ledger doubles as your compliance record.
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Fits Your Stack
Enforce at runtime. Attest with your GRC.
GuardRail enforces every AI action as it happens; your GRC platform proves it to auditors. GuardRail feeds them the runtime evidence they've never had — and routes alerts to the tools your teams already use. You enforce, they attest, and the two work hand in hand.
GRC & TRUST PLATFORMS
Vanta
Report AI runtime evidence into Vanta; sync control status back.
Drata
Push enforcement evidence and control coverage to Drata.
OneTrust
Feed AI governance evidence into OneTrust GRC.
AuditBoard
Deliver audit-ready decision records to AuditBoard.
TEAM TOOLS
Slack
Notify a channel on holds, denials, and approvals.
Microsoft Teams
Post governance alerts to a Teams channel.
Jira
Open a ticket when an action is held for approval.
PagerDuty
Page on-call when an agent is denied or halted.
EVIDENCE, NOT SCREENSHOTS
GuardRail exports a per-framework record of every allow, hold, and deny — the provable, real-time evidence a GRC platform can attest to.
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Common Questions
The questions teams actually ask.
Q Do we have to rewrite our agents?
No. GuardRail connects at the point where agents act, via SDK, REST, a tool/MCP proxy, or cloud connectors — without rebuilding your agents or replacing your platforms.
Q Does GuardRail see our data?
GuardRail runs inside your environment and stores only the decision context it needs — not a copy of your systems. Your authoritative data stays in its source of record.
Q What happens if GuardRail is unavailable?
It fails safe: consequential actions default to hold or deny, never a silent allow. Safety doesn't depend on perfect uptime.
Q Will it slow our agents down?
The check is a lightweight decision call. Low-risk, read-only actions pass immediately; only consequential actions carry a gate.
Q Where does it run?
In your environment — private cloud/VPC, on-premises, or an isolated instance. Nothing is sent to an outside service.
Q How is the audit trail protected?
Every decision is written to an append-only, hash-chained ledger. Any tampering breaks the chain and is detectable — the evidence is provable.
Q Can we stop an agent instantly?
Yes — halt a single agent or the entire estate on demand. New actions are denied until you resume.
Q Does it work across clouds?
Yes. One governance model spans agents built on AI platforms, embedded in business apps, or running on your infrastructure.
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Get Started
Bring us one AI workflow.
We'll show you where GuardRail can allow, hold, deny, or stop the action — and capture the evidence. Then we connect the rest of your estate.
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