What is Governed AI Action?
A consequential AI action that must pass a policy decision - and be logged - before it executes, so AI is governed at the point of action, not just at the prompt.
Governed AI Action: definition
Screening what an AI says is not enough once it can do things. Governing the action means intercepting the consequential ones at the point of execution and deciding whether they may proceed - approving low-risk actions, routing risky ones to a named human, and blocking the disallowed. Because enforcement is independent of how the agent was prompted, a jailbroken or manipulated agent still cannot push a consequential action past policy.
- The action, not just the text output, is evaluated against policy
- Each action returns approve, challenge (route to a human), or block
- Enforced at the point of action, independent of the prompt
- Every decision is logged as tamper-evident evidence
How Fintra approaches it
Fintra governs AI actions with a live decision endpoint any agent calls before a money move. It runs live OFAC SDN screening, delegated-authority and budget checks, and a vendor-bank-change anomaly check, then seals every verdict to a tamper-evident, recomputable hash-chained evidence ledger. This is the real spine beneath the AI Inbox and the AI Marketplace: the same governed-action check that protects an internal agent is what a third-party agent must pass too.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a governed AI action?
It is a consequential action - such as moving money or changing a record - that must pass an explicit policy decision, returning approve, challenge, or block, and be logged as evidence before it is allowed to execute.
Why govern actions instead of just outputs?
Because once AI can do things, screening only what it says is not enough. Governing the action checks the consequential move itself at the point of execution, so a manipulated or jailbroken agent still cannot exceed policy.
How does Fintra govern AI actions today?
Through a live decision endpoint any agent calls before a money move, which runs OFAC SDN screening, delegated-authority, budget, and vendor-bank-change checks, then seals every verdict to a tamper-evident, recomputable evidence ledger.
What does the evidence ledger prove?
It records each decision with the actor, target, verdict, reasoning, and policy version in a hash-chained, recomputable form, so governance can be verified after the fact rather than merely asserted.
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