Bud Ecosystem · Runtime AI Governance

AgentMesh Governance

Runtime AI governance for agentic systems — eight regulation-mapped policy packs that block, redact, and route at the moment of risk. Every decision recorded as an OpenTelemetry audit span.

EU AI Act GDPR HIPAA PCI-DSS NIST AI RMF OWASP LLM
The stakes

Get AI governance wrong, and the fines are existential.

The EU AI Act imposes penalties of up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for prohibited AI practices — enforceable since February 2025 — plus €15M or 3% for high-risk failures, ceilings that exceed GDPR's own €20M or 4%. Stack HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and a widening net of US state and global penalties on top, and a single unchecked agent — one biased decision, one leaked record, one harmful output — becomes a compounding, multi-jurisdiction liability. Enforcement has already begun.

Coverage in numbers

One control plane, measured in coverage.

AgentMesh wraps live AI agents with pre-built governance policies that inspect every input, output, and tool call — then deny, redact, or route to a human.

8
Policy packs
15
Enforcement rules
11
PII jurisdictions
7
EU AI Act articles

3 verdicts · 3 enforcement points · 2 conflict strategies · SHADOW-mode record-only rollout.

How it works

Inspect at the boundary. Deny, redact, or route.

Policies sit at three enforcement points and return one of three verdicts — every decision recorded as an audit span. Roll out in SHADOW mode first to observe without blocking.

Enforcement points
Input
Prompts & user messages
Output
Model responses
Tool call
Actions & write operations
Policy inspection
8 packs · 15 rules map each event to the EU AI Act & global frameworks. Conflicts resolved by strategy.
Verdict
Deny
Block the request outright
Redact
Strip PII, PHI & secrets
Route
Escalate to a human
Every verdict recorded as an OpenTelemetry audit span — decision, policy, and reason.
Why enterprises need it

Governance is now a runtime control problem.

Agentic AI moves enterprises from systems that answer to systems that act — calling tools, writing records, and making consequential decisions. That shift turns governance from a policy document into a runtime control problem, exactly as regulators are making it mandatory.

01

Regulation is enforceable now, not later

EU AI Act bans on prohibited practices have applied since February 2025, with fines up to €35M or 7% of global turnover. High-risk duties — risk management, logging, human oversight — phase in across 2026–2027. Deploying without controls is a measurable liability.

EU AI Act · live
02

Agents widen the risk surface

Unlike chatbots, agents call tools, write data, and make decisions. Prompt injection and goal hijack (OWASP LLM01 / ASI-01) become operational threats — an over-trusted agent can leak data or fire an unsafe action on its own. Controls must sit at the input, the output, and the tool boundary.

OWASP LLM01 / ASI-01
03

“Trust us” no longer passes audit

Regulators, SOC2 / ISO auditors, and enterprise procurement now demand evidence of controls. A decision-level audit trail is the difference between asserting compliance and proving it during an audit or incident.

SOC2 / ISO evidence
04

Data leakage is the top deployment risk

PII, PHI, and secrets routinely escape through prompts and responses (OWASP LLM06), each exposure carrying GDPR / HIPAA penalties and breach-notification cost. Redaction at the boundary is table stakes.

OWASP LLM06
05

One footprint, many shifting regimes

A multinational must satisfy the EU, a patchwork of US state rules (NYC LL144 bias audits; California and Colorado disclosure regimes), and APAC laws at once — a target that keeps moving. Adaptable runtime controls plus an audit trail beat point solutions hardcoded to one law.

13+ jurisdictions
What's inside

Eight packs. Grouped by what they protect.

Each pack maps to specific regulation and returns one of three verdicts at the boundary. Cross-cutting packs apply to any enterprise deploying agentic AI.

Safety & harm

Content Safety

Blocks illegal content; routes toxicity, violence, and self-harm to review.

Maps to EU AI Act Art.5
Safety & harm

Child Safety

Text-level child-safety duties for online platforms and consumer products.

Online platform duties
Safety & harm

Prohibited AI Practices

Art.5 backstops on social scoring and criminal-risk profiling.

Maps to EU AI Act Art.5
Data protection

Sensitive Data

Redacts PII / PHI and secrets / credentials in both request and response.

GDPR · HIPAA · PCI-DSS
Security

Prompt-Injection Defense

Blocks jailbreak and agent goal-hijack on input before it reaches the model.

OWASP LLM01 / ASI-01
Oversight

Fairness

Bias monitoring on consequential decisions, aligned to EEOC and NYC LL144.

EEOC · NYC LL144
Oversight

Regulated Advice

A human gate on financial, legal, and medical advice — with disclaimers.

Sector conduct rules
Oversight

AI-Use Transparency

Synthetic-media controls and AI-disclosure so users know when AI is in play.

Synthetic-media disclosure
Cross-cutting: Sensitive Data Cross-cutting: Prompt-Injection Defense Cross-cutting: Transparency
Industries served

Tuned to the rules of your sector.

The strongest pull is in finance, insurance, healthcare, and HR — wherever agents make consequential decisions under regulatory scrutiny.

Financial services

Regulated-advice routing and disclaimers; payment-card (PCI-DSS) redaction.

Insurance

Bias monitoring and decision oversight aligned to NAIC model conduct.

Healthcare & life sciences

PHI redaction (HIPAA); medical-advice oversight and human review.

Legal services

Legal-advice routing with human review and disclaimer.

HR & hiring

Bias signal plus a human gate on consequential decisions (EEOC, NYC LL144, state ADMT laws).

Online platforms & consumer tech

Text-level child-safety duties; AI-disclosure for synthetic media.

Public sector & law enforcement — Art.5 backstops on social scoring & criminal-risk profiling
Where it applies

13+ jurisdictions. Five continents.

Regulatory regimes mapped to the article, plus PII detection tuned per country — one control plane that keeps pace with a moving target.

Regulatory regimes mapped
EU AI Act GDPR CoE Framework Convention EEOC HIPAA NIST AI RMF SOC2 PCI-DSS California Colorado New York City (LL144) Texas Utah United Kingdom China (GB45438) South Korea (AI Basic Act) Brazil (PL2338) G7 frameworks OWASP
PII coverage by country
United States United Kingdom Australia Spain Finland India Italy South Korea Poland Singapore General / global detector
The bottom line

AI governance has moved from best practice to deployment prerequisite. Under the EU AI Act, prohibited-practice violations already carry fines up to €35M or 7% of global turnover — and agents that act, not just answer, put that exposure into production. The question is no longer whether to govern AI, but whether you can prove you did.

Turn “we have guardrails” into “we can show an auditor every decision.”

Enforcement plus evidence — regulation mapped to the article, three-verdict granularity, SHADOW-mode rollout, and an OTEL audit trail that proves every decision.