Trust and control for autonomous agents. Yours, and everyone else’s.
Elanter decides, before it happens, whether an AI agent may take an action: on whose authority, for what purpose and within what limits. It works for the agents you run and for the agents other organisations send to you.
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Your systems were built to authenticate people and applications. AI agents are different: they reason, choose tools, pursue goals and act on someone else’s behalf. Logging in isn’t the hard part. Deciding what they may do is.
Control your agents. Trust external agents.
- Register every agent with an owner, a credential and a mandate
- Grant only the authority each agent needs, with limits
- Send sensitive actions to the right person to approve
- Watch sessions for mission drift; pause or stop them instantly
- Keep a complete, replayable record of every decision
- Verify who the agent is and which company operates it
- Check whose authority it carries, and that it’s real
- Give it short-lived access, bound to one mission
- Check ownership against your records, not the agent’s word
- Share signed evidence of what was agreed with the other side
Both run on the same identity, policy, approval and audit engine. External trust is an extension of governance, not a second product.
Every action, checked before it happens.
Pick an agent, then step through what it tries to do. These are illustrative scenarios with fictional organisations.
Elanter decides. Your infrastructure enforces.
Elanter is a control plane. It decides who may act, on whose authority, for what mission and within what limits, then hands that decision to the enforcement points you already run.
Allowed actions receive a single-use permit, valid for seconds and bound to one agent’s key and one exact action. Your systems check the permit themselves, so there’s no way around the decision.
Not just yes or no.
Proceed. Within the agent’s authority. A short-lived, single-use permit is issued.
A human decides. The agent prepares; a named role, or the customer, approves.
Prove it first. Proceeds once specific verification is obtained, such as the customer confirming.
Not permitted. Nothing reaches your systems, and the reason is recorded.
Built for actions with real consequences.
We start where a wrong autonomous action has financial, regulatory or public impact.
Financial services
Payments, refunds, beneficiary changes, lending operations and customer data.
Government
Licensing, permits, eligibility, disbursements and citizen records.
Enterprise
Procurement, supplier onboarding, ERP actions and financial operations.
Between organisations
Customer, supplier and partner agents transacting inside your systems.
Shape Elanter around your riskiest agent workflow.
We’re working with a small number of banks, government entities and regulated enterprises. Bring one high-consequence workflow; we’ll model its authority, run it through Elanter and show you every decision.
One trust engine for every agent action.
Identity, delegated authority, mission, policy, human approval and evidence, in one control plane that plugs into the infrastructure you already run.
Authority, written down.
A mandate lists what an agent may do on its own, what needs a person, what needs extra proof and what it may never do. Anything not listed is refused.
- Limits on amounts, records and scope
- A named owner for every agent
- Versioned, so every past decision can be explained
- Changed by the business, not by engineers
Know whose authority an agent carries.
When a customer’s or partner’s agent arrives, Elanter checks the delegation behind it. You set the most that may ever be delegated; the principal grants within that; policies tighten it further.
- Granted and revoked in your own channels, never through the agent
- Limits the principal controls
- The principal can be the approver
- An agent can never widen its own authority
Guardrails that only ever tighten.
Organisation-wide rules react to the situation: where an instruction came from, how much, how many records. The strictest answer always wins, so adding a rule never gives an agent more power.
- Maker–checker review for every change
- Replay recent decisions against a draft before it goes live
- One rule protects every agent, yours and external
Control while it runs, not just at the door.
Each session is one agent, one mission, one principal. Elanter watches for drift from the declared mission and can pause a session automatically. Every allowed action gets a permit that expires in seconds and works once.
- Automatic pause when an agent drifts off mission
- Kill switch that revokes every open permit
- Replayed, late or copied permits are refused by your systems
Prove what happened, and why.
Every decision records the exact mandate, delegation and policy versions it used, so it can be replayed and explained months later. Across organisations, both sides sign the same receipt.
- Append-only decision record
- Replay any decision against its original rules
- Signed cross-organisation receipts that reveal any tampering
- Exports for auditors and regulators
Model-neutral, framework-neutral.
Any agent that can make an HTTP request can ask Elanter first. Enforcement runs through adapters for the gateways, identity systems and runtimes you already use.
Decision API
One call before any consequential action. Structured request in, verdict with reasons and permit out.
Enforcement adapters
API and MCP gateways, identity and access management, agent sandboxes, Kubernetes. Elanter decides; they enforce.
Operator console
Agents, mandates, delegations, approvals, live sessions, permits and audit, in one place.
Start with the workflow that would hurt most if an agent got it wrong.
Let agents move money, safely.
Servicing, payments, lending and customers’ own assistants.
Give servicing agents real autonomy on routine work, keep maker–checker on large amounts, and admit customers’ AI assistants without opening a fraud channel.
Faster services, with authority kept where it belongs.
Licensing, permits, inspections, complaints and disbursements.
Agents can prepare and process; officials decide what the law says officials must decide. Businesses’ own agents and service providers can transact, but only for the companies that authorised them.
Autonomy in operations, without losing control of spend.
Procurement, suppliers, ERP and finance operations.
Give each agent a mission and a budget. Elanter keeps it on mission, escalates judgement calls and stops the classic frauds before they reach your ERP.
When agents do business with agents.
Customers, suppliers, partners and other authorities.
Each side verifies the other’s agent independently, and both sign the same record of what was agreed. If a counterparty’s agent is compromised, the difference shows immediately.
A control layer has to be more trustworthy than what it controls.
Deterministic decisions
No language model sits in the decision path. The same request, under the same rules, always gets the same answer, and every answer can be replayed.
Fails closed
If Elanter can’t evaluate a request safely, or can’t record the decision, the answer is no. It never defaults to allowing.
Least authority by default
Agents get only what their mandate or delegation grants. Anything not listed is refused, and policies can only narrow it further.
No bypass on protected paths
Allowed actions carry a signed, single-use, seconds-long permit bound to one agent’s key. Your systems verify it themselves.
Agents’ claims are claims
What an agent says about itself is recorded as agent-asserted. Hard limits rely on your own records and signed credentials, not on the agent telling the truth.
Deployed where your data must stay
Designed to run as a managed service, in your private cloud or on premises, including in-country deployments for data-residency requirements.
Where we are today.
Elanter is in its design-partner phase. The decision engine, mandates, policies, approvals and decision records run today; enforcement adapters, external-agent federation and cross-organisation receipts are being built with partners. We’ll always tell you which is which.
Trust, whenever an autonomous agent acts.
Regardless of who owns the agent or where it operates.
Agents are becoming economic actors.
When software can act on someone’s behalf, every organisation needs a reliable way to decide which agents to trust, whose authority they carry and what they may do. That can’t be rebuilt inside every system, by every company, for every counterparty.
Where we’re going
- Now: govern the agents organisations run themselves
- Next: admit agents that customers and partners send
- Then: neutral trust infrastructure for agents transacting between organisations
Built for regulated institutions everywhere.
We’re starting with banks, government entities and regulated enterprises in the Gulf, where demand for sovereign deployment and high-assurance controls is strong, and building for customers worldwide.
Bring us your riskiest agent workflow.
Elanter isn’t generally available yet. We’re working closely with a small number of organisations before launch. Register your interest and we’ll be in touch.
What you get
- Your workflow modelled as mandates, delegations and policies
- A working environment where your agents ask Elanter first
- Every decision explained and replayable for your risk and audit teams
- Direct influence on the roadmap and early access pricing
What we ask
- One high-consequence workflow and its owner
- A few hours a month from risk, security and the business
- Honest feedback
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We’ll be in touch about the design partner programme. If it’s urgent, email anand@elanter.ai.
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