Solutions · Accountability & audit

A human answers
for every agent.

Agents do not get a pass on ownership. Agen.co ties every agent, and every action it takes, to the person behind it. When the auditor, the board, or a regulator asks who is responsible, you have a name.

The story

The question that empties a room.

Every enterprise now has agents acting on production systems. Almost none can answer the simplest governance question about them: who is responsible for this one? Ownership was never assigned, evidence was never captured, and the audit becomes an archaeology project. Accountability cannot be reconstructed after the fact. It has to be built into the architecture.

The question
“Who owns this agent?”
auditor · board · regulator
The registry answers
M. Adler · RevOps
owner · approver · escalation
Per action
request → approval → action
full chain, at action time
The answer
a name, with evidence
in seconds, not investigations
The mechanics

Accountability as architecture.

1:1

A named owner, from day one

The agent registry refuses anonymity. Every agent maps to an accountable human with an authority chain: owner, approver, escalation.

Registry ruleno owner, no run
Chain3 named roles

Per-action audit trail

Not just what happened, but who the agent was acting for when it happened. Anchored to identity, generated at action time.

Evidenceat action time
Reconstructionnever needed

Ownerless agents surfaced

The agents nobody claims are exactly the ones that end up in incident reports. Agen.co flags them until a human claims them.

Anonymous agentsflagged
Statusheld until claimed
Watch it happen

The registry, naming names.

Every agent, its machine identity, and the human authority behind it, in one screen.

agent registry · live product scene
Who it serves

Built for the people who sign.

For the CISO
An answer for the board
Every agent has a name behind it. Every action has evidence behind it. The accountability question stops being scary.
For GRC and audit
The binder writes itself
Evidence maps to SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR expectations continuously, not in a quarterly fire drill.
For team leads
Ownership without overhead
Owning an agent means getting the step-up when it matters, not filling out attestations.
From the field · Tipalti
We started with one governed gateway between our agents and our internal systems. Connectivity that used to be bespoke integration work is now a policy decision, and endpoint coverage is next on our roadmap.
TICISO · TipaltiIn production
MCP gateway · secure connectivityInternal agentsEndpoint coverage next
Outcome Bespoke integrations became policy decisions.
FAQ

Questions, answered.

What does owning an agent actually mean?
Being the named human in its authority chain: you approve step-ups, you answer for its scope, and its actions attribute to you in the audit trail.
Can an agent run without an owner?
Not a governed one. Unowned agents are flagged in the registry and held until claimed.
How does this help in an audit?
Every action carries its full chain: request, identity, approval, verdict. Evidence exists the moment the action happens, mapped to the frameworks your auditors ask about.
Does this cover agents we did not build?
Yes. Workforce tools, bought agents, and homegrown automations all resolve to owners the same way.

Put a name on every agent.

Accountability that survives an audit, a board meeting, and a regulator.