Agentic AI governance for regulated enterprises.
Autonomous workflows need guardrails from the start. Incede.ai designs governance into every engagement — so you can move faster without losing control, and prove it to auditors and risk committees.
Six controls in every governed deployment.
Aligned to IBM watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.governance capabilities, these controls are designed to be implemented through access policies, approval flows, observability, audit logging, and workflow-level guardrails in production. Our approach is risk-based: we evaluate each workflow on autonomy, access, data sensitivity, business impact, and production risk before deciding which controls are required.
Identity & access
Centralized identity and credential management. Agents operate within defined boundaries — never with more authority than the human invoking them. Role-based access and policy enforcement at the agent boundary.
Audit logging & lineage
Full audit trails of every agent decision, tool call, and outcome — the evidence packet your auditors and risk committee will actually recognize.
Pre-deployment evaluation
A staging environment for rigorous evaluation before agents reach production — journey completion, answer relevancy, tool-call accuracy, security, cost, and latency.
Safety guardrails
Real-time guardrails designed to mitigate prompt injection, unauthorized data access, and cascading failures across autonomous workflows — implemented as policy-based controls at the workflow level.
Production observability
Real-time monitoring across every agent interaction — tracing, alerting, and the visibility your on-call team needs. Integrates with Datadog, Splunk, or Instana.
Governed catalog & lifecycle
A single catalog of approved agents, tools, and templates with certification workflows and lifecycle management from development through production.
watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.governance, together.
Incede.ai helps customers apply governance across IBM watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.governance, watsonx.ai, enterprise applications, and existing business systems. watsonx Orchestrate provides the agentic control plane for scaling and governing AI agents, while watsonx.governance helps teams manage visibility, accountability, risk, controls, and audit readiness across the AI lifecycle.
What a governance engagement delivers.
Depending on scope, Incede.ai can help deliver:
Governance FAQ.
What is Agentic AI governance?
Agentic AI governance is the set of controls that keep autonomous AI workflows safe, auditable, and compliant — covering identity and access, audit trails and lineage, pre-deployment evaluation, real-time safety guardrails, observability, and lifecycle management. Incede.ai builds these in from day one using IBM watsonx.governance.
How do watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.governance work together?
watsonx Orchestrate helps enterprises build, orchestrate, and manage AI agents and workflows. watsonx.governance helps provide visibility, oversight, risk management, controls, and audit readiness across AI systems. Incede.ai helps customers design implementations where agentic workflows, governance controls, auditability, and production support work together.
How do you prevent agents from doing something they shouldn't?
Agents operate within defined identity and access boundaries and never act with more authority than the human invoking them. Real-time safety guardrails are designed to mitigate prompt injection, unauthorized data access, and cascading failures, implemented through policy-based controls at the workflow level.
How do you support audit and compliance requirements?
Every agent decision, tool call, and outcome is logged with full lineage, producing an audit trail your auditors and risk committee will recognize. Delivery controls align to SOC 2, HIPAA, and FINRA customer control requirements.
How is sensitive data and PII handled?
PII can be kept within your tenant and VPC through architecture design. We apply redaction before any fallback model call, retain full lineage on every prompt and response, and align controls to SOC 2, HIPAA, and FINRA expectations — without introducing a second governance regime.
Can agents be evaluated before they reach production?
Yes. We use a staging environment to rigorously evaluate agents before production — journey completion, answer relevancy, tool-call accuracy, security, cost, and latency — so issues are caught before customers see them.
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