Design Partner Evaluation

Your autonomous systems take consequential actions on your behalf. When one is questioned — by a regulator, an auditor, or your own incident team — the question is not what happened. It is who authorised it, and where is the evidence.

This evaluation produces that evidence. Structured, technical, and cross-vendor by default — any model provider, agent framework, or toolchain.

How The Evaluation Works

Scoping

Qualification

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We scope the evaluation to one must-control action class and confirm a clear owner on your side. One action class, one enforcement point, one evaluation pass.

Action Boundary

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We identify the concrete enforcement point in your environment (tool boundary, SDK wrapper, local service) and the downstream systems where consequences occur.

Delegation + Policy

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We map your current authority and approval expectations into a minimal, versioned policy + delegation bundle. Authority enforces what you define; it does not set your risk appetite.

Validation

Labs Evaluation

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We exercise ALLOW | DENY | ESCALATE decisions in a controlled harness, validate fail-closed behaviour, and confirm that the evidence record surface answers "who authorised what, when, and why".

Evidence Review

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We validate that actions cannot execute through the governed path without an Authority decision, and that evidence exports support incident reconstruction.

Decision Gate

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If the mechanism holds, we scope production deployment. If it does not, we stop — we do not push a partial control into production.

What The Evaluation Produces

Scenario pack

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The agreed action cases and evidence inputs.

Policy bundle

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The exact delegation rules and decision logic under test.

Evidence Record bundle

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The resulting ALLOW, DENY, or ESCALATE records with timing and integrity fields.

These artefacts are the evaluation’s output: evidence that the mechanism works, or evidence that it does not. Observatory is available to design partners as a dependent layer to inspect evidence records; it is not standalone.

Not ready for a product evaluation? The Authority Gap Assessment is the fixed-scope, paid first step: it maps where your agents can act outside delegated authority before anything is deployed.

Labs: Controlled Evaluation Harness

Labs is the controlled harness we co-run with your engineering and governance team. It is not a product or platform. We configure it to your action boundary, deliberately test fail-closed posture when policy or delegation state is missing or invalid, and verify the decision path is hard to bypass, easy to explain, measurable in latency, and produces evidence records designed for audit or inquiry.

Ambit Systems products operate on an Annual Subscription with no micro-metering. During evaluation we typically operate under mutual NDA.

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