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Authority Governance for Autonomous AI

Permissions define what AI agents can do. Authority defines what they’re allowed to do.

AI agents can operate within their permissions while exceeding organizational authority. Botaris enforces business limits across agents, actions, and systems.

The problem

Every action can be permitted. The outcome can still be unauthorized.

AI agents act across systems, make independent decisions, and delegate work. Traditional permissions do not inherently enforce shared business limits or cumulative authority across those actions.

A valid permission is not the same as an authorized decision.

Illustrative example

Individually permitted. Collectively unauthorized.

Three agents share one organizational limit: $10,000 in spending authority per day. Each agent has a valid permission to spend up to $4,000. The requests arrive one after another.

  1. 1

    Agent A requests $4,000

    Within its permission and within the shared limit. Cumulative total: $4,000 of $10,000.

    Permitted
  2. 2

    Agent B requests $4,000

    Within its permission and within the shared limit. Cumulative total: $8,000 of $10,000.

    Permitted
  3. 3

    Agent C requests $4,000

    Its own permission allows it, but $8,000 is already committed. Approving would bring the shared total to $12,000, over the $10,000 limit.

    Denied

Hypothetical scenario for illustration. Amounts, agents, and limits are examples, not a live deployment.

How it works

Define. Enforce. Account.

01

Define

Patent pending

Your organization defines authority grants and the shared limits that apply across agents, teams, and workflows, with an owner for each.

02

Enforce

Patent pending

BotAris evaluates each action at runtime against those grants, taking collective activity into account, including delegation and actions across systems.

03

Account

Each evaluation resolves to permit, deny, or escalate to an authorized person, and is written to a traceable decision record.

Where it applies

Use cases

01

Cumulative financial exposure

Payments, refunds, credits, and purchases that are each within limits but together exceed what the business allows in a day, a period, or a budget.

02

Sensitive data use and transfer

Agents reading, summarizing, or sending regulated data. Authority sets which data may leave a system, a region, or the organization, and under what conditions.

03

Delegated agent work

An agent hands part of a task to another agent or tool. Delegated authority can only narrow, never widen, and the chain stays traceable to a person.

04

Operational change limits

Configuration changes, deployments, and access changes. Limits on scope, timing, and volume, with exceptions routed to an authorized approver.

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Architecture

Complementary to identity and access.

Identity and access (IAM)

Establishes technical access

Who the agent is, which credentials it holds, and which systems and operations it can reach. This remains essential and stays where it is.

BotAris

Enforces organizational authority

Whether a specific action, alone and together with related actions, is within the limits the business has granted. Evaluated at the execution points where BotAris is integrated.

See the platform →

Give every agent a mandate, not just a credential.

Authority Governance for Autonomous AI

Permissions define what AI agents can do. Authority defines what they’re allowed to do.

AI agents can operate within their permissions while exceeding organizational authority. Botaris enforces business limits across agents, actions, and systems.

The problem

Every action can be permitted. The outcome can still be unauthorized.

AI agents act across systems, make independent decisions, and delegate work. Traditional permissions do not inherently enforce shared business limits or cumulative authority across those actions.

A valid permission is not the same as an authorized decision.

Illustrative example

Individually permitted. Collectively unauthorized.

Three agents share one organizational limit: $10,000 in spending authority per day. Each agent has a valid permission to spend up to $4,000. The requests arrive one after another.

  1. 1

    Agent A requests $4,000

    Within its permission and within the shared limit. Cumulative total: $4,000 of $10,000.

    Permitted
  2. 2

    Agent B requests $4,000

    Within its permission and within the shared limit. Cumulative total: $8,000 of $10,000.

    Permitted
  3. 3

    Agent C requests $4,000

    Its own permission allows it, but $8,000 is already committed. Approving would bring the shared total to $12,000, over the $10,000 limit.

    Denied

Hypothetical scenario for illustration. Amounts, agents, and limits are examples, not a live deployment.

How it works

Define. Enforce. Account.

Patent pending

01 · Define

Your organization defines authority grants and the shared limits that apply across agents, teams, and workflows, with an owner for each.

Patent pending

02 · Enforce

BotAris evaluates each action at runtime against those grants, taking collective activity into account, including delegation and actions across systems.

03 · Account

Each evaluation resolves to permit, deny, or escalate to an authorized person, and is written to a traceable decision record.

Where it applies

Use cases

01

Cumulative financial exposure

Payments, refunds, credits, and purchases that are each within limits but together exceed what the business allows in a day, a period, or a budget.

02

Sensitive data use and transfer

Agents reading, summarizing, or sending regulated data. Authority sets which data may leave a system, a region, or the organization, and under what conditions.

03

Delegated agent work

An agent hands part of a task to another agent or tool. Delegated authority can only narrow, never widen, and the chain stays traceable to a person.

04

Operational change limits

Configuration changes, deployments, and access changes. Limits on scope, timing, and volume, with exceptions routed to an authorized approver.

Explore use cases by industry →

Architecture

Complementary to identity and access.

Identity and access (IAM)

Establishes technical access

Who the agent is, which credentials it holds, and which systems and operations it can reach. This remains essential and stays where it is.

BotAris

Enforces organizational authority

Whether a specific action, alone and together with related actions, is within the limits the business has granted. Evaluated at the execution points where BotAris is integrated.

See the platform →

Patent pending

Define and Enforce are patent pending.

What practitioners say

“BotAris closes the governance loop for agents.”
Director of IdentityFortune 100 Insurance Holding Company
“I’ve been waiting for someone to solve this problem.”
Information Security ManagerPatient Care
“BotAris lets my non-security users innovate with agents.”
Global VP of AIGlobal MedTech

Give every agent a mandate, not just a credential.

See how shared business limits hold across agents, actions, and systems.

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