Governance architecture
for AI agents.

AI agents with system access self-govern — they propose actions, approve them, and execute them as one process. When compromised, every layer of protection falls at once, because they're all the same layer. Nonaxis separates them with deterministic enforcement end to end.

Three isolated instances with different capabilities constrain each other. The entire governance pipeline is deterministic — no LLM in the decision path. Unknown situations escalate to humans, never to another model.

Operator

proposes

Full tool access, sandboxed. Proposes actions to the governance bus. Cannot self-approve.

CISO

reviews

Read-only access, isolated process. Static analysis, pattern matching, and risk scoring on every proposal.

Arbiter

enforces

No LLM. Deterministic rules. Issues cryptographic execution tokens. Unknowns escalate to humans.

Four verbs. Schema-validated JSON. Works at any deployment layer — kernel, container, or application.

PROPOSE
REVIEW
DECIDE
EXECUTE

The specification is published and the reference implementation is tested. We're looking for design partners deploying AI agents in regulated or high-consequence environments.

Patent
#63/980,205
Tests
480+
License
Apache 2.0