Four owners feel the accountability gap first. Same product, four different first conversations. Each maps to a 30-day, fixed-fee, one-workflow pilot.
An AI code assistant touches a compliance-bound pipeline.
A gate in front of merges and pipeline changes, with a receipt for each intervention.
“Our logs already show what the bot did.” Logs debug the software. They do not show authority, and they can be edited after the fact.
Evidence requests arrive faster than the team can assemble answers.
Control evidence assembled continuously, receipt by receipt, instead of reconstructed under deadline.
“We already attest quarterly.” Attestation covers the program. The receipt covers the specific action an agent just took.
An AI triages alerts and can take containment actions.
Every escalation and containment step on a tamper-evident record, with the authority that allowed it.
“Another tool means another integration.” The pilot instruments one workflow. Runtime-neutral; it sits beside your stack, not inside it.
An assistant answers from a controlled document library.
Receipts showing what the assistant consulted and under whose authority it answered.
“Low stakes; it only answers questions.” Answers move decisions. When one is challenged, the question is still ‘on what basis?’