SENTRIK
Authorization infrastructure for AI agents and autonomous systems
Sentrik evaluates every consequential action against your policy, identity, and approval limits before it commits — then produces a signed, replayable record of why it was authorized, blocked, or escalated.
It sits between any agent and the actions it takes: any cloud, any model, any vendor.
Authorization flow
AI agent
Proposes an action
Sentrik
Evaluates before the action runs
Authorization record
Signed. Tamper-evident. Replayable.
what was authorized · under which policy version · and why
The control gap
Enterprises gave AI agents real authority over payments, records, and systems. The tooling around them observes, logs, and alerts. None of it decides. By the time the dashboard shows the action, the action already happened.
Observability tells you what happened. It does not decide what is allowed.
A payment to the wrong account, an underpriced deal, an exception nobody approved — each one is a decision that was never made.
21%
of organizations have deployed a formal AI kill switch capability, in a 2026 Kiteworks survey of 459 security, compliance, and technology professionals.1
50%
of the same respondents cannot produce a complete AI data access audit record within one business day.1
Watching is not control. Logging is not authorization.
Why now
Demos became pilots. Pilots became production. Agents now hold real authority over money, records, and tools — and the distance between what they can do and what they are allowed to do is where the risk sits.
Deployment is stalling on control, not capability.
40%
of enterprise applications will be integrated with task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025, according to Gartner.2
Authorize · Enforce · Verify
Move money, change a record, call a tool — the action is evaluated against your policies, delegated authority, and context before it runs.
A deterministic decision before any action runs. Every request is evaluated against explicit, versioned policy, delegated authority, and context — not model judgment.
Block, allow, or escalate — in the critical path. Actions outside policy never reach execution. Exceptions route to someone with the authority to decide.
A cryptographic, replayable record of every decision: what was authorized, under which policy version, and why.
Sentrik never originates the action.
It decides whether the action is allowed. The agent, human, or system stays the doer.
A new layer
Decides who can enter. It checks credentials at the door and grants entry to a system.
Decides what an autonomous system is authorized to do, at the moment it acts. It checks the action itself against policy, delegated authority, and context.
Once inside the door, the action itself is otherwise ungoverned. That's the gap Sentrik closes.
Authority is trusted only when it is independent of the system requesting it. Auditors are independent of the company. Certificate authorities are independent of the website. Sentrik is independent of the model, cloud, framework, and agent vendor being governed.
Governs any agent
Connect the agents you already run — from any vendor, on any platform — and Sentrik checks every consequential action against your policies and approval limits before it commits. Approve, block, or send to a human. Every decision recorded and independently verifiable.
Your rules bind every agent, from any vendor, on any platform.
Actions outside policy are blocked or escalated, not reversed after the damage.
A verifiable record of every decision for your auditors, sponsor bank, or compliance team.
Reference implementations
Two products built on the authorization infrastructure, in the highest-stakes place an agent can act.
The Sentrik governed finance agent
It does the work. Sentrik ingests and three-way-matches invoices, purchase orders, and receipts, verifies the payee — catching vendor bank-detail changes and impersonation — and prepares the payment. Nothing moves until Sentrik authorizes it. Anything unusual goes to your team first.
Hours of AP work eliminated.
Fraud and misdirected payments caught before money moves.
Your team approves exceptions instead of processing everything.
The Merchant Deal Desk
For ISOs, MSPs, and acquirers that own merchant pricing decisions.
Reads the statement or application; models merchant savings, your margin, and residuals.
Close faster — routine deals stop waiting in email.
Checks minimum margins, seller authority, commissions, hardware and sponsor requirements.
Protect margin — underpricing surfaces before the offer leaves.
Routes below-floor pricing, waived fees, and strategic exceptions to the right approver, with a record.
Authorize before commitment.
Designed around pricing-control principles identified in the OCC Merchant Processing Handbook: defined authority, consistent exceptions, merchant-level profitability, documented decisions.
Why you can trust it
Authority is trusted only when it is independent of the system requesting it. Sentrik is independent of the model, cloud, framework, and agent vendor it governs — one authorization layer across all of them.
Every decision produces a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident record. Your auditor, sponsor bank, or compliance team can verify it independently, without trusting Sentrik.
Every decision is evaluated against explicit, versioned policy. The same action under the same policy version produces the same decision — and it can be replayed.
Your rules decide — the agent never freelances. Humans stay in charge: anything outside policy escalates to your team before it commits.
A working, patent-pending authorization engine — every decision independently verifiable.
How you start
Sentrik watches agent actions and flags what would be blocked. It executes nothing. For merchant portfolios, the Merchant Deal Replay looks at your last 12 months of deals — no production integration, no live pricing changes.
It shows deals below your margin thresholds; fee, equipment, commission, and cost exceptions outside policy; exceptions without documented, authorized approval; and how your rules today would have handled each deal.
A verifiable record of what it caught and what it would have stopped.
Enforcement is opt-in, on your timeline.
Where this goes
Money movement is the starting point — the highest-stakes action an agent can take. The same gate extends to data and system changes, and then to any consequential action by any agent, including autonomous systems.
Decide what your agents are allowed to do — before they do it.