Governed AI employees
AI employees, governed by construction.
Deploy them into real workflows, grant only what you choose, and every action lands on a permanent record. Run one or run a fleet, from a single Control Information Center.
OwnCharter governs at the Gate. Prevention, not detection. Unauthorized actions are stopped before they happen, not logged after.
Try it, live
Grant a tool. Invoke an intent. Watch the Gate.
You are the operator. Grant capabilities on the left, then invoke an intent on the right. The Gate lets an intent run only if its tool is granted: allowed intents pass and are recorded, unauthorized intents fail closed, and every decision lands on the permanent record.
Granted capabilities
Tap to grant or revoke a tool, then invoke an intent.
The agent runs non-privileged. It can only do what you grant, and it can never grant itself more.
Invoke an intent
Permanent record, hash-chained
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The problem
Agents are easy to run. Governing them is not.
You are running agents without a gate.
Scripts, automations, an agent or two wired into real tools. They act, but nothing stops an unauthorized action before it happens, there is no capability boundary, and when something breaks there is no trail. That does not scale, and it does not pass an audit.
You want to run them for other people.
Deploying agents into someone else's business raises the bar. They have to be governed, recorded, and provable, not merely working. Without a control plane you cannot see a fleet, and without provenance a client has no reason to trust what you shipped.
Which one are you?
Three ways in. Same governed engine underneath.
You build and run your own agents.
Keep your intent, swap your tools, and put every action behind a gate you own. Governed primitives, not a black box.
The builder pathYou run agents for other businesses.
Deploy governed agents for clients and run your whole book from one Control Information Center. A business in a box.
The shop pathYou just want it run for you.
Prefer a partner to deploy and govern it for you? BizToCloud runs OwnCharter agents as a managed service.
Go to BizToCloudBuilt on three principles
Leverage. Sovereignty. Governance.
Leverage
One operator runs a fleet. No payroll, no headcount, no one to manage. Capability on demand, governed the same way whether you run one agent or fifty.
operator runs a fleet of governed agents across every client’s workflows.
hires plus payroll, HR and management overhead to run the same book by hand.
Sovereignty
Your intent and your record are yours, not the platform's. Change models or vendors and your workflows come with you. Leaving is a supported operation.
Your intent (stays)
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Bound tool (swaps)
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Governance
Governed by construction, not containment. Agents run non-privileged and cannot grant themselves power they were never given. The operator is always the final authority.
Ask the agent to expand its own authority.
How it fits together
Intent in front. Tools in back. A gate between.
You describe what should happen in plain business terms. The agent can act only through capabilities you granted, checked before execution, recorded after. Swap the tools behind it any time; the intent stays yours.
Why you can trust it
Trust is structural, not promised.
Fail-closed by construction
An agent cannot do what it was not told it could. Every action passes one chokepoint that fails closed.
No self-grant
An agent cannot expand its own authority. Ever. Only the operator grants capability.
Signed provenance
Capabilities ship as signed packs and verify against a pinned root. Anything unsigned or unverified is denied at the gate.
The permanent record
Hash-chained audit. When something happens, you have the full story.
No lock-in
Your workflows are not bolted to one vendor, one model, or one platform. Leaving is a supported operation.
Who is building this
Dogfooded daily.
I run my own governed agent operation on OwnCharter while I build it. Every claim on this page is something I depend on myself. That is the standard: if it is not good enough to run my operation, it is not good enough to run yours.
Get in early.
OwnCharter is being built in the Open, heading for early alpha. Request access, tell us which path fits you, and help shape it.