AI governance
Decides before the agent acts.
Your rules run before any agent's tool call does. Allow, ask a named person, or refuse, with a signed, hash-chained receipt for each. Every action, answerable.
Approvals
3 waiting
Pay Sharma Traders · ₹2,00,000
AP agent · rule PAY-02: moves_money over ₹50,000 · 21 h 14 m left
Held for finance headChange bank details · Vendor 0412
Refused · rule 4.2
What is elan1 Govern?
elan1 Govern is AI governance that decides before an agent's tool call runs: allow, ask a named person or refuse. Your signed rulebook runs first, anything not clearly allowed is refused, and every outcome, refusals included, leaves a signed, hash-chained receipt that an auditor can verify offline with one command.
Updated
The challenge
Most AI tools watch. Few stop anything.
Tracing and dashboards tell you what an agent did. By then the payment has gone. The moment that matters is the write, and something has to stand in front of it.

01
Watching is not governing.
A trace cannot prevent an incident.02
The actor narrates itself.
A record inside the agent's own product is self-attestation.03
No one can stop it.
60% of enterprises cannot stop a misbehaving agent.CSA and Token Security, April 2026
How it works
Ask. Check. Approve. Act. Record.
01
Ask.
The agent's tool call comes to Govern first.02
Check.
Your signed rulebook runs. Anything not clearly allowed is refused, and an error refuses.03
Approve.
Risky actions wait for a named person. If nobody answers in 24 hours, the action is refused.04
Act.
Only the allowed action runs. On the governed route, the agent never holds the credentials.05
Record.
A signed, hash-chained receipt for every outcome, refusals included.
Take a look inside.
Rules your finance head can read.
- One signed rulebook per agent, versioned
- Rules match risk tags such as moves_money
- Test a change on past actions first
Rulebook · AP agent
v14 · signed
PAY-02 · moves_money over ₹50,000
Ask: finance head · expires after 24 h, then refuses
Ask a person4.2 · Change bank details
Never by an agent
RefuseDefault · anything not clearly allowed
An error refuses too
Refuse
Test v15 on past actions before it is signed
One tap, with the reason shown.
- Console, signed email links, Slack or WhatsApp
- Expires after 24 hours, then refuses
- Type STOP to pause every agent
Pay Sharma Traders · ₹2,00,000
21 h 14 m left
Why held
Rule PAY-02: moves_money over ₹50,000 · Rulebook v14 · signed
Held for finance headSent to
Console · signed email link · Slack · WhatsApp
If nobody answers in 24 hours
Refused on expiry
Type STOP to pause every agent
A receipt anyone can verify.
- Signed and hash-chained
- Auditor pack export
- govern verify offline: "Chain intact"
Receipts
4,097 in chain
Pay Sharma Traders · ₹2,00,000
Approved by Asha R. · rule PAY-02
Allowed · Approved by Asha R.Change bank details · Vendor 0412
Rule 4.2
Refused · rule 4.2
$ govern verify auditor-pack.zip
Chain intact · 4,097 receipts · signatures validRules your finance head can read.
- One signed rulebook per agent, versioned
- Rules match risk tags such as moves_money
- Test a change on past actions first
Rulebook · AP agent
v14 · signed
PAY-02 · moves_money over ₹50,000
Ask: finance head · expires after 24 h, then refuses
Ask a person4.2 · Change bank details
Never by an agent
RefuseDefault · anything not clearly allowed
An error refuses too
Refuse
Test v15 on past actions before it is signed
Where it works.

Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
Collections, credit-limit and payment changes, under RBI, SEBI and IRDAI packs

Professional Services and GCCs
Invoice to bill to payment for client books, with bank-detail changes refused
How it fits
The one layer that allows.
Act, Propel, Resolve, Decide and Pulse propose. Run carries. elan1 Ontology defines what may change. Only Govern allows, for our agents and for yours.
Applications
Applications
- elan1 Act, Agentic ERP
- elan1 Propel, Agentic go-to-market
- elan1 Resolve, Agentic service
- elan1 Pulse, Governed agentic analytics
Foundation
- elan1 Ontology, Relationship intelligence
- elan1 Decide, Decision intelligence
- elan1 Govern, AI governance. Only Govern allows.
- elan1 Run, Agentic AI runtime
- Allowed · Approved by Asha R.
- Held for CFO
- Refused · rule 4.2

