ValidMind governs AI in regulated financial institutions: testing, documenting, validating and monitoring models across a portfolio, with risk tiering, policy-as-code enforcement, real-time policy hooks and immutable audit trails. Agent Authority extends the same framework to what autonomous agents may do.
Model risk management is a regulatory requirement in banking with decades of supervisory expectation behind it, and the interesting question is what happens when an agent that acts rather than predicts enters that framework. Policy-as-code with real-time hooks is the sensible answer: the control runs at the moment of action rather than in a quarterly review.
The Palo Alto company sells to banking and insurance risk, governance and C-suite functions, with General Bank of Canada reporting 70 percent time savings on model validation. No pricing is published and that customer figure is theirs. Governance platforms need institutional authority behind them or they become documentation exercises, and policy-as-code is only as good as the policies encoded.
