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An Agent Trust Gap Brief is a short, evidence-based read of what your AI agents can do and what you could not prove afterward.

It answers one question: if an agent acted outside what you intended today, would you be able to show who acted, why it was allowed, and how to stop it? The brief tells you where the gaps are, ranked by consequence, with its own limitations stated in writing.

What you get

A short, evidence-based read of your agent risk surface. Built from what is observable and what you tell us in a two-minute intake — not a questionnaire marathon.

1. Agent & tool inventory snapshot

What is running, what it can reach, and which agents have no named human owner.

2. Top trust gaps, ranked

The controls that are missing between an agent's decision and its effect, ordered by blast radius.

3. Evidence gaps

Which actions you could not reconstruct or prove today if an auditor, a regulator, or a customer asked.

4. Standards mapping

Where your gaps land against OWASP ASI01–10 and the obligations that actually apply in your jurisdiction.

5. One recommended next control

The single highest-leverage thing to fix first, with the reason it beats the alternatives.

6. Stated limitations

What this brief cannot see, in writing. A gap brief that claims completeness is not a trust artifact.

Why this exists

Gartner projects more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 — driven by escalating cost, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls, the same risk categories the NIST AI Risk Management Framework exists to structure. Machine identities already outnumber human ones by more than 80x in most enterprises, which is most of why the gap goes undiscovered. Most teams do not discover the control gap until an agent has already done something they cannot explain. The brief is the cheap version of that discovery.

Seven questions the brief answers directly:

Which agent acted, and who is accountable for it?
Under which policy version was it allowed?
Who approved that exact payload, and had the approval expired?
Is there a signed receipt, or only a log line someone could edit?
How fast can you revoke one agent, or halt all of them?
Can you replay the action for an incident review?
Is there a hard, fail-closed cap on what an agent with a wallet can spend?

How it works

You answer three questions: what your agents can access, what consequence worries you most, and what you need next.
We assess the observable surface and map it against current standards.
You get the brief. If there is a reason to go deeper, that is the Agent Trust Audit — but the brief stands on its own.

No certification is issued or implied. This is an assessment, not an attestation. See how we handle claims.

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Common questions

What is the Gap Brief?

A short, structured assessment of the gap between what your agents can do and what you could evidence if asked.

What do you need from us?

A description of your agents and what they can act on. No system access is required.

What do we get?

A written brief naming the specific gaps, ranked by the irreversibility of the ungoverned actions, with the concrete control for each.

Is it a sales document?

It names gaps and controls. Where the control is something you can build yourself, it says so.

What happens after?

Nothing automatically. The brief is useful on its own and is designed to be actioned by your own team if you prefer.

You cannot govern an agent estate you cannot enumerate. The first finding of most audits is the inventory nobody had.

Julian Joseph, founder of ApexClaw

The numbers behind the brief

Enforcement is not abstract either: the EU AI Act's three penalty tiers run up to 7%, 3% and 1% of global turnover depending on the obligation breached, and machine identities already outnumber human ones by more than 80x in most enterprises — both figures cited on the platform overview.

Agentic AI project cancellation rate: more than 40% by end of 2027.
Machine-identity ratio: more than 80x human identities in most enterprises.
EU AI Act penalty tiers: up to 7% / 3% / 1% of global annual turnover.