Your agents are stuck in pilot. The problem is authority, not intelligence.
Enterprises didn't stall on agents because the models are weak. They stalled because they gave probabilistic reasoners unbounded actuators — and security, correctly, said no. We engineer the authority layer that turns that no into a governed yes.
15 questions · 5 minutes · scored against published enterprise benchmarks · no signup
Governance is not the brake. It's the transmission.
Your pilot worked. The demo impressed the board. Then security asked five questions — who can this agent act as, what can it touch, who approved that, can you prove it, can you stop it — and nobody had answers. So the deployment sits in pilot, burning credibility every quarter it doesn't ship.
That veto is not obstruction. It is the correct engineering response to an unbounded actuator. The organizations shipping agents at 12× the rate of their peers V didn't get there with better models or braver security teams. They got there with governance — enforceable authority, not policy documents.
Machines don't earn trust. Envelopes do.
The steam engine became industrial power the day the flyball governor mechanically bounded it — not the day it got more powerful. Robotics repeated the lesson: authority envelopes, e-stops, provenance, commissioning, recovery. Nobody makes an industrial robot "smart enough to be safe." They make its authority bounded by construction.
AI agents are a new class of actuator with the same architecture problem, and the industry that already solved it isn't the one selling you agent platforms. Alpha Vector applies safety-critical engineering discipline to business agents: full reasoning freedom inside mechanically bounded operational authority.
A fixed-price ladder. Each step de-risks the next.
Authority Scorecard
$0 / 5 MINUTES
Fifteen questions across six control dimensions. Scored in your browser against published enterprise benchmarks. Your three highest-risk gaps, immediately.
Take the scorecardAutonomy Authority Audit
$18,000 FIXED
Full inventory of deployed and shadow agents, an authority-boundary map, execution-layer risk assessment, incident-readiness score, and a prioritized remediation architecture. Board-ready.
See the auditProduction Autonomy Deployment
$75–150k FIXED SCOPE
One high-value agent workflow taken from stalled pilot to governed production — authority profiles, default-deny controls, audit ledger, runbooks, and a signed authority case.
See the methodThis company is run by governed agents.
Alpha Vector's own operations — research, delivery drafting, pipeline, publishing — are executed by AI agents running on GOVERNOR, our authority architecture: four authority tiers, default-deny execution in sensitive domains, a founder approval queue for material actions, and a hash-chained decision ledger.
We are a new firm, and we won't pretend otherwise — you'll find no client logos here. What you'll find instead is something no incumbent publishes: our own governance, in the open. Judge the report, not the logo.
Read our governance ledgerIllustrative excerpt — see Live Governance for the format specification and publication commitment.
Built for the room where the pilot stalled.
The CTO who promised the board
You own a productivity commitment and a pilot that works — and a deployment that doesn't move. The audit gives you a credible, board-ready path to production in two weeks, with the unblocking mechanism named and priced.
The CISO who said no
You were right. Purpose limits nobody can enforce — 63% of enterprises can't V — and agents nobody can terminate are not acceptable risk. We convert your veto into conditions: enforceable controls, provenance, and a termination path you sign off on.
The platform lead in between
You run the agent infrastructure and inherit everyone's risk. We leave you an authority model, policy schemas, and runbooks your team owns and extends — built to outlast the engagement, not to create dependency on us.
How much authority have your agents already accumulated?
Fifteen questions. Scored in your browser against published enterprise benchmarks. No form, no signup, no tracking.