AI + Human, for high-stakes regulated work

Agents do the work.
Experts own the outcome.

Seven decades of regulated operations, now run on Spine, our governed agentic platform. Every consequential action is approval-gated, audited and signed by a named human, so high-stakes regulated operations put AI to work without giving up the record.

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then a named human approves →
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step 04Verify the case recordread only · PII resolved at connectorAuto · read
step 06Consequential write · outbound actionrouted to a named humanHeld · human
✓ approved · named reviewer · audit entry signed
Governance encoded, not aspirational Approval on every write PII never reaches the model Per-client isolation Audit tamper-evident Sector rules encoded
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The problem

In high-stakes work, an ungoverned agent is a liability, not an asset.

Generic AI is built to be helpful. Regulated work needs AI that is accountable. Three gaps stop most deployments before they start.

01

You cannot deploy what you cannot audit

Regulators do not accept "the model decided." Every action needs a reason, a decision-maker and a record that cannot be quietly changed after the fact.

02

A hallucination is a compliance event

An unbounded agent that sends a message, moves money or makes a promise can breach a regulation, a consent rule or a duty of care in a single step. The controls have to sit outside the model.

03

One customer’s data cannot touch another’s

Shared infrastructure without hard isolation is a breach waiting to happen. Separation has to be enforced at the database, not promised in the application.

The platform

Spine: the control plane that governs every AI action.

Spine is agentless. Your teams build agents in their own apps. Spine is where those agents are declared, allowed, run, gated and recorded, cleanly separated for each customer. It is the operating system and the flight recorder for regulated AI.

Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533
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Approval gate

No write executes without an approval decision. Reads run free, writes stop at a human choice: approve, modify and approve, take over or reject and escalate.

absolute rule

Tamper-evident audit

The audit log is append-only and HMAC hash-chained. Each entry links prev-hash to hash, so the record is verifiable end to end and cannot be silently altered.

prev_hash → hash

Hard tenant isolation

Postgres row-level security, enforced at the database. The application connects as a non-owner role, so one customer can never read another's rows. Cross-tenant denial is tested.

row-level security

Reviewable procedures

What an agent may do is an Agent Operating Procedure: a git-backed spec promoted by a signed tag, not logic buried in an app. Reviewable, versioned and diffable.

AOP · signed tag

Policy-driven model router

A per-tenant LLM router with a candidate chain, retry and fail-over. Every routing decision records the model, cost and latency. Model choice is policy, not a hard-coded dependency.

cost · latency · fail-over

Guardrail engine

Compliance predicates asserted after every step: never send without confirmation, no PII in a response, respect consent and permitted windows, honor a stop request. A failed assert stops the run.

asserted per step
The governed runtime path · reads are free, writes stop at the gate
ModelLLM Router

Per-tenant policy picks the model, with retry and fail-over.

GuardrailsAssert after each step

Compliance predicates checked before anything proceeds.

Tool callAOP allow-list

Only declared tools, routed through the connector hub.

ReadRuns live

No gate. The result flows straight back.

WriteApproval Center

A human decides. Then it executes.

Every step, plus every decision with its reason and its decider, is written to the hash-chained audit bus.
The autonomy ladder

Agents earn autonomy. They do not start with it.

Every agent begins in shadow mode, acting on nothing, and climbs the ladder only on evidence. Promotion is a signed, audited decision, never an accident.

01shadow

Learns in the open

The procedure runs on real interactions and acts on nothing. Writes are logged, never executed. It earns trust by agreeing with human specialists.

promote when agreement is proven
02assisted

Acts with a human on the write

The agent proposes the action and does the work up to the boundary. Every consumer-facing write still waits for a person to approve, modify or take over.

promote when the eval gate clears
03autonomous

Runs within its band

Inside a defined authority band the agent acts on its own, with guardrails live and humans on the exceptions. Step outside the band and it escalates.

bounded, audited, reversible
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The verticals

Built for the work regulated operations share.

A fleet of purpose-built agents for high-stakes sectors, from finance and insurance to healthcare and public services. Different jobs, one governed runtime: the same allow-list, guardrail engine, approval gate and hash-chained audit underneath every one.

Serving finance · insurance · healthcare · utilities · telecom · public services
Vermeer, The Geographer, 1669
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Collections & recoveries

lending · utilities · telecom

A hardship-aware promise-to-pay negotiation with each sector’s rules encoded: disclosures at open, identity gate, contact windows, dispute and cease handling, and an empathy handoff when a plan is not enough.

disclosurescontact windowsdispute rightscease honored

Fraud & risk

payments · claims · identity

Detection across mule activity, account takeover, payment fraud, claims anomalies and identity. Every case opened is a gated, audited write.

muleATOclaimsidentity

Case & customer operations

healthcare · insurance · public services

A copilot for the service and case desk across mail, records, tickets and scheduling. Reads run live; anything it sends waits for confirmation, with least-privilege access and no stored credentials.

recordsno PII in responseleast privilege

Records & reporting

audit · regulatory packs

An end-to-end reporting pipeline with gated writes and a verifiable trail. Assembles the numbers, holds the publish step for a human and leaves a record you can hand to a regulator.

gated writesverifiable trail
AI + Human at scale

AI at machine scale. People where judgment lives.

The automation carries the repeatable volume. Our specialists, the same expertise behind seven decades of regulated operations, take the calls that need a human. That blend is the product, not a fallback.

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Automation handles the high-volume, repeatable work around the clock, at a fraction of the cost per interaction. That protects margin without cutting the quality of the moments that matter.

The remaining share routes to trained specialists: disputes, hardship and the edge cases where a regulated decision has to sit with an accountable person. Vermeer's woman weighs before she acts. So do ours.

We do not claim 95% automation. Across sectors, automation realistically plateaus at 60 to 75% of the volume, and the people on the remainder are the point, not a rounding error.
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Governance

Compliance encoded in code, proven by tests.

The controls that matter to a regulator are not slideware. They are written into every procedure and checked on every build. A procedure that fails a compliance case does not ship.

Rembrandt, The Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild, 1662
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Since 1955

Seven decades of regulated operations, now delivered as native AI.

The heritage is the moat. We are not a startup guessing at compliance, and we are not a legacy operator bolting AI onto old process. We built the platform, and we bring the people who have always done the work.

Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, 1632
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1955

Founded as a family operations business.

1990s

Scaled to serve regulated clients across sectors and markets.

2020s

Global operations, deep domain and compliance expertise.

2026

A native-AI company, running on the Spine platform.

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Merchant Georg Gisze, 1532
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Book a working session

Bring one process. Leave with a working answer.

A working session, not a pitch: your highest-volume workflow, run through an agent, a guardrail and a named approver, live, on the record.