Introducing Business Authority Governance

The Business Authority Platform for humans, AI agents and machines.

IntentGate introduces Business Authority Governance, the missing governance layer between identity and runtime. IntentGate governs Business Authority, authorizes runtime execution and continuously proves what happened.

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BUSINESS AUTHORITY GOVERNANCE · RUNTIME AUTHORIZATION · CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROOF

A new enterprise governance category

Business Authority Governance

AI agents need governance.

Governance comes from the business through humans.

The missing governance layer between identity and runtime. It defines what humans, AI agents, machine identities, partners and third parties are authorized to achieve, before any action is allowed to execute.

Existing foundation Identity Governance Establishes the actor, lifecycle, ownership and access context.

Category introduced by IntentGate® Business Authority Governance Defines business purpose, scope, limits, approvals and accountable authority.

IntentGate® Runtime Authorization Evaluates whether the specific action should execute now.

Proof Execution Evidence Records why the decision was made and what actually happened.

Workforce AI Agents Machine Identities Partners Third Parties

One governance model for every operational actor.

01 · Why Identity Governance Stops Too Early

Identity can establish the actor, and still leave the action ungoverned.

Identity governance establishes who or what the actor is and what access exists. Business Authority Governance decides whether a specific action belongs within an approved business purpose, scope, limit and risk context, at the moment of execution.

Traditional identity governance

The agent is authenticated.

Execution gap

Workload identity verifiedOAuth, API key, SPIFFE or service account

VALID

✓

Credentials issuedThe AI worker can access enterprise systems

GRANTED

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Tool call initiatedsap.purchase.create · $18,400

UNCHECKED

Business intent unknownNo continuous action-level authorization

GAP

Identity can confirm the actor. It cannot answer: “Should this action happen now?”

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Business Authority Governance + IntentGate

Every action is evaluated.

Continuous control

Identity and contextActor, owner, environment and session risk

VERIFIED

Business authorityAuthorized purpose, scope, spend and velocity

MATCHED

Runtime authorizationIntent, tool, policy and limits checked in real time

ENFORCED

Execution proofDecision, reason and result linked cryptographically

RECORDED

IntentGate continuously answers: “Is this AI worker authorized to perform this specific action now?”

Identity governance is essential. Business Authority Governance completes it.

Identity → Business Authority Governance → Runtime → Proof

Architecture active

IntentGate® Shared Platform Foundation Intent Core

Identity context, policy services, APIs, administration, audit and shared platform services.

IdentityPolicyAPIAdministrationAuditSDK

Identity & Context

Who is acting?

Identity, ownership, environment, purpose, risk and enterprise context establish the foundation.

IdP and workload identity
IGA and PAM signals
Business ownership

IntentGate · Business Authority Governance

Govern Business Authority

Defines the business functions an AI worker is authorized to perform and the guardrails that constrain them.

Executable scope
Spend and velocity limits
Short-lived IntentGrants
Review and optimization

Runtime

Runtime Authorization

Intercepts every action, evaluates intent and context, and produces an enforceable decision in real time.

Intent evaluation
Policy and grant checks
Action-level enforcement

Built-in Proof Capability

Proof

Every decision is linked to intent, policy, action and result, then packaged as verifiable evidence.

Hash-chained audit
Signed proof records
SIEM and compliance export

Runtime outcomes

PERMIT RESTRICT REDACT STEP-UP DENY

Modular by design Activate the IntentGate capabilities your organization needs on one shared platform and one authority model, without replacing the identity systems already trusted by the enterprise.

AI Agent Governance Business Authority Runtime Authorization Continuous Proof

02 · Business Authority Governance

Every operational actor needs governed business authority.

Humans, AI agents, machine identities, partners and third parties should receive explicit, reviewable and signed authority to perform defined business functions within measurable guardrails.

IntentGate implements Business Authority Governance.

IntentGate connects ownership, business purpose, executable scope, monetary limits, velocity controls and approval requirements into one governed authority model for every operational actor.

“Is this actor still authorized to perform this business function?”

Bounded Runtime Authority IntentGrant Registry

Short-lived IntentGrants derived from approved Business Authority.

procurement-agent-17Grant v13

purchase.createsql.query$5,000 max5 writes/min

grant-signature: ed25519:7f8a91b2c3d4e5f6...

finance-agent-04Grant v8

invoice.readpayment.lookupread-only

hr-onboarding-agent-12Review due

worker.creategroup.assignhuman approval

Live Runtime Decision Low-latency inline enforcement

Intent extractedPurchase 25 laptops for IT hardware budget

VALID

Tool interceptedsap.purchase.create

MATCHED

Grant evaluated$2,318 ≤ $5,000 · write velocity within limit

PERMITTED

Policy enforcedRule #17 · Procurement purchase policy

EXECUTED

Proof recordedPrompt, intent, grant, policy, result and signature linked

VERIFIED

IntentGate® authorizes every action at the moment it matters.

IntentGate sits in the execution path and continuously enforces governed business authority. It evaluates what the actor is attempting to do against the active IntentGrant, policy, context and risk.

Identity establishes the actor. Business Authority Governance defines the boundary. IntentGate authorizes the action.

Proof closes the Business Authority Governance loop.

Built-in Proof links the original request, governed business authority, matched policy, runtime outcome and execution result into one cryptographically verifiable record.

Not just what happened, but why it was allowed.

Cryptographic Proof Chain Verified

Prompt Issue purchase order for 25 laptops

sha256: 67bc4fa1c18a0f7e...

Intent + Grant purchase.create · Grant v13

sha256: 91ad53ca0efc77d1...

Policy Decision PERMIT · Rule #17

sha256: 03d7c2e9ab4851f6...

Signed Proof Execution verified

ed25519: 7f8a91b2c3d4e5f6...

Explore Business Authority Governance in action.

Move through each layer to see how identity, Business Authority Governance, runtime authorization and Proof work as one continuous control system.

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Identity establishes the actor, not the action.

IntentGate consumes identity and risk context from the enterprise stack without replacing the systems already trusted by the organization.

Entra ID, Okta and workload identities

IGA ownership and lifecycle signals

PAM, device, network and session risk

IdP / Workload Identity

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Enterprise Context Fabric

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IntentGate

IntentGate governs Business Authority and derives bounded IntentGrants for runtime use.

Every grant is explicit, versioned, reviewable and deployable. Reviewers optimize authority based on actual runtime evidence instead of approving static permissions.

Executable scope and business purpose

Spend, velocity and approval guardrails

Authority health and optimization reviews

Business Owner

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Approved Business Authority

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IntentGrant

IntentGate authorizes every tool call.

The data plane intercepts agent actions and evaluates them against the active IntentGrant, intent, context, policy, risk and runtime limits before execution.

MCP, function calling and HTTP interception

Embedded policy decision engine

Permit, restrict, redact, step-up or deny

Agent Action

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IntentGate Runtime

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Enterprise Tool

Proof makes authorization explainable.

Every decision is packaged as evidence that can be inspected, replayed, exported and correlated in the customer’s SIEM or compliance environment.

Prompt-to-execution correlation

Hash-chained decision records

Signed evidence packages and replay

Decision Record

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Cryptographic Signature

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Proof Package / SIEM

Govern business authority.
Authorize runtime.
Prove execution.

See how IntentGate® brings Business Authority Governance, runtime authorization and cryptographic Proof together for every operational actor.

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