Agent behavior and control for autonomous AI systems

Get autonomous systems into accountable operations.

Semantiv helps teams define what agentic work means, bind important actions to evidence, coordinate work across systems, and control execution before autonomous systems scale.

Runtime model Evidence present
  1. 01 Agent output tool call, draft, diff, packet
  2. 02 Operational meaning what the work changes
  3. 03 Evidence packet tests, clauses, approvals, traces
  4. 04 Authority context who can allow or escalate
  5. 05 Controlled execution allow, block, escalate, record
  6. 06 Decision record durable explanation
decision escalate reason authority missing

Understand what your AI agents actually do before they scale.

Agents are moving from demos into production work. They call tools, touch data, modify code, draft contracts, trigger decisions, and coordinate across systems.

Observed gap Missing context

Logs show what happened. They rarely explain what the work meant, what evidence supported it, who had authority, or why the action should have been allowed.

First commercial offer

Agent Behavior & Control Reviews for teams deploying agents that act.

Semantiv maps behavior, tool access, workflow coordination, evidence, authority, and risk. Then we design the runtime controls and implementation path needed to make the system clearer and safer to scale.

  • 01 Agent and workflow inventory
  • 02 Tool and data-access map
  • 03 Behavior trace review
  • 04 Operational meaning model
  • 05 Evidence and proof model
  • 06 Coordination and composition map
  • 07 Control architecture
  • 08 Implementation prototype or SDK/API direction

Runtime primitives for accountable autonomous work.

The current motion is hands-on review and implementation support. The repeated primitives become the product: action contracts, evidence packets, authority context, coordination graphs, commitment models, and decision records.

meaning

Action Meaning

Define what an agent action means in the business, technical, legal, or operational system.

"edit file" -> "change authentication behavior"
evidence

Evidence Packet

Bind important actions to tests, clauses, approvals, source documents, traces, and missing support.

tests passed, clause cited, approval missing
authority

Authority Context

Clarify who or what can approve, delegate, execute, escalate, or block the action.

required approver: security owner
coordination

Coordination Graph

Map how work moves across agents, tools, humans, queues, services, and documents.

agent -> CI -> reviewer -> merge gate
commitment

Commitment Model

Treat contracts, policies, approvals, financial records, and regulated submissions as commitment-bearing artifacts.

who owes what, to whom, under which exception
record

Decision Record

Preserve what happened, what it meant, what evidence supported it, and why the system allowed, blocked, or escalated.

decision: escalate, reason: evidence incomplete

Discover. Define. Evidence. Compose. Control.

Controls come after meaning. Semantiv starts from real behavior, defines the operational meaning of important actions, attaches evidence, models coordination, and then designs runtime boundaries.

  • 01 Discover
    Start from real prompts, logs, tool calls, workflows, approvals, documents, and failure cases.
  • 02 Define
    Make the operational meaning of important agent actions explicit enough to reason about.
  • 03 Evidence
    Identify the support required to trust, block, escalate, or approve autonomous work.
  • 04 Compose
    Model how work, authority, responsibility, and evidence move across systems and people.
  • 05 Control
    Design runtime boundaries, approval paths, tool wrappers, escalation logic, and durable records.
method loop recordable
  1. 01 behavior trace
  2. 02 action contract
  3. 03 evidence packet
  4. 04 coordination map
  5. 05 control point
  6. 06 decision record

Where autonomous work meets operational consequence.

Semantiv starts where agent actions carry meaning, evidence requirements, authority, coordination, and durable commitments.

Case 01 Coding Agents / Software Delivery A devtool startup has an AI coding agent that can read repositories, edit files, open pull requests, request review, and eventually merge approved changes. Risk Enterprise customers want a concrete answer to what the agent is allowed to change before production-impacting actions execute. Case 02 Security Operations / Agentic SOC A security platform is adding agents that triage alerts, investigate incidents, enrich signals, disable users, block IPs, isolate endpoints, and escalate threats. Risk The promise is faster response. The risk is uncontrolled remediation across users, infrastructure, and privileged systems. Case 03 Finance / Accounting Operations A finance automation company has agents that reconcile transactions, classify expenses, prepare reports, draft journal entries, route approvals, and update finance systems. Risk The team wants more automation, but every posting, approval, adjustment, and report change must survive audit. Case 04 Legal / Contract Operations A legal AI product helps in-house teams draft contracts, redline clauses, compare terms, route exceptions, and prepare approval packets. Risk Drafting can be flexible. Approval, clause substitution, external communication, and exception routing need explicit gates. Case 05 Healthcare Admin / Prior Auth / Claims A healthcare operations company has agents that gather clinical evidence, check payer rules, draft prior authorization packets, submit requests, monitor status, and prepare appeals. Risk The work is structured, expensive, and evidence-heavy. The agent must not submit the wrong request with incomplete support.

If your agents are moving from demo to production, start by understanding what they actually do.

Bring one workflow, the traces you have, and the actions that create risk. Semantiv will help turn ambiguous behavior into operational meaning, evidence, controls, and a decision record.