Is Your Agent System Constitutionally Governed?
A 2-hour structured assessment. Six governance layers. Scored output with remediation roadmap.
What the assessment covers
Six Governance Layers
Most autonomous agent deployments close the WHO and HOW layers. The assessment evaluates all six — including the three layers most organizations have not yet instrumented.
Identity & Access
Identity management, access control scope, authorization boundaries. Who can instruct the agent and under what conditions.
Behavioral Policies
Execution constraints, sandbox limits, behavioral guardrails. How the agent is permitted to act within its authorized scope.
Constitutional Constraints
Hard limits, amendment governance, non-overridable constraints. The architectural layer that governs what the agent does in scenarios the policy file never anticipated.
Spend Gates & Budget
Budget enforcement, runway protection, financial liability gates. Whether the agent can take actions with unbounded economic cost.
Human Oversight Surface
Escalation triggers, CEO-minutes-per-day measurement, Level 4 autonomy bounds. Where human intervention is required and how it is surfaced.
Audit Trails & Ratification
Self-consistency checks, execution logs, amendment ratification process. Whether the system can verify its own claims about governance compliance.
Regulatory context
Three Jurisdictions. One Architecture Question.
Gartner identifies General Counsel as accountable for AI governance risk — constitutional constraints are now a legal architecture question, not just an engineering one.
Research participation
Assess Your Agent Governance Maturity
Two ways to assess your enterprise against the six-layer framework — both free while it's in active research. The design-partner review adds live scenario testing and multi-jurisdiction regulatory mapping (EU AI Act, UK FCA, Colorado AI Act).
Self-serve
Free 2-Minute Checklist
Free · instant
10 yes/no questions, no signup, see your score now
- 10 questions across authorization, composition, and kill-switch coverage
- Instant score, computed in your browser
- No email, no form, nothing submitted
- For the full 6-layer scored assessment, see the design-partner tier
Design partner
Design Partner Program
Free · collaborative
Live 2-hour session + async follow-up
- All 6 layers with live test scenarios
- EU AI Act + UK FCA + Colorado AI Act readiness mapping
- Scored output with remediation roadmap
- Board/investor reporting artifacts
- In exchange for your feedback as the framework is refined
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Assessment Inquiry
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Production track record (falsifiable)
The Assessment Is Based on a Live System
The six-layer framework comes from 238 days of operating a constitutional governance system in production under real economic pressure. These are verifiable claims, not theoretical ones.
The open-source constitutional-agent library extracts the core framework from this production system. Assessment clients receive the production-validated scoring criteria, not a theoretical checklist.