Know Your Agent (KY-A)

Governance begins when
an idea is created.

Every AI system creates organisational risk. KY-A ensures every AI initiative is identified, assessed, approved and continuously monitored before reaching production — not after it is deployed.

ISO 42001 & NIST AI RMF
EU AI Act ready
POPIA & GDPR aligned
AI Inventory
Risk Classification
AI Committee
Sandbox
Agent Passport
Runtime Telemetry
Govern AI Throughout Its Lifecycle

Assess:
Every AI Initiative, Before It Ships

Every AI system creates organisational risk. KY-A provides the governance framework that ensures every AI initiative is identified, assessed, approved and continuously monitored before reaching production.

Governance begins when an idea is created — not after AI is deployed

Identified

A single governed inventory of every AI system operating across the enterprise.

Assessed

Risk classification and materiality so oversight stays proportionate to exposure.

Approved

Structured approval workflows that keep accountable people in the loop.

Know exactly what AI is running in your enterprise.

Inventory, classify and assess every AI application against internal policy and international standards.

Continuous Oversight

Monitor:
Detect Consumer Harm Before It Spreads

Governance does not end at deployment. KY-A issues an Agent Passport for every approved system and captures runtime telemetry, evidence and emerging risk for its full operational life.

A governed identity for every AI system, recording what it does, who owns it and what it was approved to do.

Continuous signal from live AI systems, surfacing drift, degradation and emerging consumer risk.

Accountable people remain in the loop, with every review and decision recorded.

Defensible regulatory evidence produced as a by-product of the governance process itself.

A passport per agent

Every approved AI system carries a governed identity and approval record.

Live telemetry

Performance and emerging risk tracked after deployment, not just before.

Evidence by default

Audit trails generated automatically as governance runs.

Detect consumer harm before it spreads.

Runtime telemetry and continuous oversight across every AI system you operate.

Capabilities

Capability:
The KY-A Governance Framework

Everything required to govern AI from idea through approval, deployment and continuous assurance.

AI Inventory
Risk Classification
AI Committee
Sandbox
Approval Workflows
Agent Passport
Runtime Telemetry
Evidence
Human Oversight
Policy Compliance

Built around international best practice.

ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, POPIA, GDPR and your own internal AI policies.

Built Around

Trusted AI.
Governed from idea to production.

KY-A aligns to the frameworks regulators recognise, alongside your own internal AI policies.

ISO 42001

AI management systems, aligned end to end.

NIST AI RMF

Risk management mapped across the AI lifecycle.

EU AI Act

Classification and obligations built into the workflow.

POPIA

Local data protection obligations covered by design.

GDPR

Privacy and data requirements assessed up front.

Internal AI policy

Your own standards enforced alongside the frameworks.

Sandbox validation

Prove solutions in a governed environment first.

Policy compliance

Every initiative validated before it reaches production.
Governance begins when an idea is created — not after AI is deployed.

FAQs

What teams ask before bringing AI governance in-house. If yours is not here, we are happy to talk it through.

Any AI system that influences a business decision — generative AI applications, models, autonomous agents and rules-driven automation are all inventoried and assessed the same way.

A governed identity for each approved AI system, recording its purpose, owner, risk classification and the terms it was approved under.

No. Oversight is proportionate to risk classification, so low-risk work moves quickly while high-risk initiatives get the scrutiny they need.

Runtime telemetry tracks performance and emerging risk, with human oversight and periodic review for the operational life of the system.

ISO 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, POPIA and GDPR — alongside your own internal AI policies.

KY-A plugs into AURA, so regulatory change automatically flows through to the AI systems it affects.

Every Digital Decision
Creates a Trust Obligation.

Tomorrow’s leading organisations will not govern AI, regulation, data and consumers separately. They will govern them as one connected ecosystem. That ecosystem is Altara.