Governance & privacy7 MIN READ
What should trigger an agent governance review?
Review should follow material changes in purpose, authority, data, users, dependencies, evidence or incidents—not an arbitrary calendar alone.
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Continuous assurance
Ongoing evaluation and control evidence for systems that change in production.
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8 articlesStrategy & transformation6 MIN READ
A quarterly watchlist for agentic AI leaders
A useful quarterly watchlist tracks changes that could alter real decisions: system authority, evidence, incidents, standards, providers and organisational readiness.
Evaluation & assurance6 MIN READ
Continuous evaluation without alert theatre
Run evaluations often, but interrupt people only when a signal maps to user consequence, a decision owner and a tested response.
Evaluation & assurance6 MIN READ
The future of AI assurance is continuous—but not fully automatic
Agent systems change after release, so evidence must keep moving. Automation can collect and test signals; people remain responsible for judgement and action.
Architecture & engineering6 MIN READ
Agent observability should answer questions, not produce dashboards
Useful observability reconstructs a decision and its effects. Begin with incident, release and governance questions; then collect the smallest safe evidence that answers them.
Evaluation & assurance6 MIN READ
When does an agent evaluation dataset become stale?
Age is only one signal. A dataset becomes stale when its cases, labels or conditions no longer support the decision the evaluation is meant to inform.
Governance & privacy6 MIN READ
What changes when an AI agent can modify itself?
Self-modification turns runtime learning into controlled software change. Separate what may adapt, require evidence for promotion and preserve a recoverable baseline.
Evaluation & assurance6 MIN READ
Why financial-services agents require more than model testing
Financial agents combine models, data, tools, people and third parties, so assurance has to follow the complete regulated workflow.
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