Security & governance — for the CISO, the auditor, and the CFO at 11pm

Why letting agents near a ledger
isn't insane.

Because they're never actually near it. Agents don't hold write access to the ledger — every write, from any actor, goes through the same governed gateway your controllers use, with the same dry-run, the same lanes, the same immutable trail. This page proves it instead of claiming it.

Read the platform architecture

01 / Autonomy is earned, never granted

Every agent climbs
the same ladder.

An agent starts blind and earns each rung with evidence. You promote it; you can demote it in one click. No agent skips a rung — including ours.

RUNG 1

Observe

Reads real documents, proposes nothing that leaves the sandbox. Its proposals are scored against what your team actually did.

GATE: ACCURACY EVIDENCE, REVIEWED BY YOU

RUNG 2

Recommend

Proposals flow into approval lanes. A human signs every single one. The agent's job is to make signing take seconds.

GATE: SUSTAINED LANE APPROVAL RATE

RUNG 3

Execute within thresholds

Auto-posts inside limits you set — amount, vendor class, exception type. Everything else still waits for a signature.

GATE: YOUR THRESHOLDS, WIDENED BY YOU ONLY

RUNG 4

Autonomous, monitored

Runs the volume work with full audit rows and live monitoring. Any anomaly demotes it back down the ladder — instantly, by you or by policy.

DEMOTION: ONE CLICK, ANY TIME

02 / The architecture argument

One gateway.
No side doors.

HUMANS

Controllers, accountants, CFO

AGENTS

LLM, code, hybrid — all of them

THE GOVERNED GATEWAY

typed transactions · dry-run · risk lanes · RBAC + entity scoping

THE LEDGER

immutable rows · double-entry · schema-per-organization isolation

There is no API that skips the middle box. A compromised agent can propose garbage — and garbage fails dry-run, lands in a lane, and leaves a trail. That is the whole argument.

03 / The due-diligence list

Controls,
stated plainly.

01

One write path

Agents never write directly. Every write — human or agent — goes through the governed gateway: typed transaction, dry-run, lane, audit row.

02

RBAC and entity scoping

Every actor, human or agent, is scoped to the entities and transaction types it may touch. A UK billing agent cannot see the EU payroll ledger.

03

Immutable audit rows

Who proposed, what the dry-run checked, who approved, what posted. Append-only; corrections are new entries, never edits.

04

Encrypted credentials

Bank and system credentials stored with AES-256-GCM; agents receive scoped, expiring access — never the keys themselves.

05

OAuth 2.1 and API keys

Modern authentication for humans and machines; MCP access uses the same identity and scoping model as everything else.

06

Schema per organization

Each organization runs in its own database schema. Isolation is structural, not a WHERE clause.

Certifications

We show badges only for audits we've passed. Ask us where we are in the process and we'll show you the roadmap and the evidence — not a logo wall. Today that means: Artifi's own SOC 2 attestation is on the roadmap, not yet held; Anthropic holds SOC 2 Type II for the AI layer we build on.

Security review

Bring your security
questionnaire.

A session with our team and yours — architecture, isolation, the gateway, and the audit trail, answered line by line.

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