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Stand up GRC & pass your audit

From registration to audit-ready evidence that verifies itself.

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From registration to audit-ready evidence that verifies itself.

THE PROBLEM

What this solves.

Governance that lives in spreadsheets isn’t ready when the auditor arrives — and it can’t catch a risky action while it’s happening.

HOW THE A4 PLATFORM DOES IT

Stand up GRC & pass your audit, governed.

Register every AI system, vendor, and data flow and carry each one through to provable, audit-ready evidence — classified against the frameworks regulators use, before they ask. Governance policy enforces as AI runs, so risky actions are caught in the moment, and every decision lands on a record an auditor can verify independently.

Every action is written to a record where altering a single entry breaks the chain — and the break is detectable.
Register every AI system, vendor, and data flow, classified against the frameworks regulators use — before they ask.
Governance policy enforces as AI runs, so risky actions are caught in the moment.
Every decision lands on a record an auditor can verify independently.
IN ACTION

The routine work, picked up.

Not a demo of what an agent could do someday — the everyday work it takes on now, each job running under the same limits and landing on the same record as everything else.

Register what you actually run
Every AI system, vendor, and data flow goes into one inventory the moment it comes into use — not a spreadsheet someone forgets to update. When the question is “what AI are we running, and where,” the answer is a single register, current.
Classify against the frameworks
A guided wizard walks each system through a question-based flow, categorizes it against the EU AI Act, and keeps the justification attached to the call. Re-run it when the system changes and the reasoning stays with it — so the classification is defensible, not asserted.
Route it for sign-off before it goes live
Risk assessments and high-risk classifications move through real approvals — sequential or parallel, with escalation when a reviewer doesn’t respond. The right people sign before a system is in production; nothing high-risk self-certifies.
Catch the risky action in the moment
Governance isn’t a quarterly review. Every agent action is resolved against your permissions before it happens, and anything consequential stops for a named person — so the control fires while the work is running, not weeks after.
WHAT WE CAN SHOW YOU

Not a promise — something we can put in front of you.

Concrete behavior you can watch on your own work — each one shipped and governed the same way, not a claim for later.

Classify an AI system through the wizard and the categorization, the reasoning behind it, and the framework it answers to are captured together — re-run it when the system changes and the history stays attached.
A high-risk assessment doesn’t go live on someone’s say-so: it moves through approval — sequential or parallel, with escalation — and the sign-off is part of the record, not a side email.
When the auditor says “show me,” every decision is already on a tamper-evident, SHA-256 hash-chained record they can verify independently — the evidence is standing, not a binder you assemble the week before.
POWERED BY

The products behind this.

The same governed apps as everywhere else — here’s where this outcome comes from. Start with these; the rest of the platform is already connected.

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GOVERNED BY CONSTRUCTION

The same three pillars hold under every outcome.

This outcome runs on the same governance as everything else on the platform — permissible access by construction, tamper-evident proof, and human-in-the-loop agent governance. Not bolted on afterward; the way the work happens.

Permissible access by construction
Every action is resolved against your permissions before it happens — denied unless you have allowed it. Access is deny-by-default and explainable, so every grant traces to the rule that decided it.
Tamper-evident proof
Every action lands on a tamper-evident, SHA-256 hash-chained record. Alter one entry and the chain breaks, detectably — so “what did it do, and was it allowed?” is answered by the record, not a screenshot.
Human-in-the-loop agent governance
Agents act under a named person’s permissions, never widening them, and stop anything consequential in a human-oversight queue for approval — every refusal shown in plain language as proof the guardrails fire.
THE ONE QUESTION

Does running this make us compliant?

No tool can hand you compliance — that judgment belongs to your auditor and your regulator. What the platform does is make the evidence real instead of asserted: every AI system registered and classified against the frameworks that apply, the reasoning kept with each classification, approvals recorded where they happened, and every decision sealed to a tamper-evident, hash-chained record an auditor can verify without taking your word for it. We frame your systems against the EU AI Act and stand the evidence up; you walk into the audit with it already assembled.

SAME GOVERNANCE, EVERY OUTCOME

Proof, not promise.

From registration to audit-ready evidence that verifies itself — not a binder you assemble the week before.

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