AI Agent Security and Controls
Security, controls, and governance
Independent review of authority, tool permissions, data boundaries, human approvals, escalation, failure handling, and the evidence needed to reconstruct consequential decisions.
Paul Grogan
Independent AI architect
I review whether AI agents are ready for production: secure enough to operate, controlled enough to govern, and observable enough to trust.
Production readiness review·Financial services
$6,500 inventory and prioritization sprint, or an AI Agent Production Readiness Review starting at $20,000 for one workflow — pricing and scope
AI Agent Production Readiness
Production readiness
A practical launch decision for one important agent workflow, covering architecture, operational ownership, reliability, observability, and the controls that must work when the happy path fails.
Agentic Trust Architecture
Trust architecture
Research-backed methods for delegated authority, decision-time auditability, and signal integrity. These methods inform the review; they are not substitutes for evidence from the system being assessed.
Research areas
Research areas
- Cryptographic authorization for autonomous agents — research into constrained, delegated authority
- Monotonic authority delegation in multi-agent systems — research into authority attenuation between agents
- AI decision auditability and integrity verification — research into decision-time authorization evidence
- Signal decay compensation in synthetic data pipelines — research into data pedigree and retrieval quality
These are research areas, not certifications or claims that a reviewed system implements them.
Background
Senior Solutions Engineer at Salesforce, Financial Services Industry.
Production experience with Claude API, Claude Code, OpenAI API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agentforce.
Orange County, California.
How an Engagement Starts
How an engagement starts
The AI Agent Production Readiness Review is a fixed-scope engagement for one important workflow. It examines security, controls, governance, operational readiness, and evidence, then produces a launch-oriented findings report and remediation plan. A faster, lighter-scope 2-Day AI Agent Inventory & Prioritization Sprint is also available for teams that need a clear view of their agent landscape and the workflow to prioritize before committing to the full review.
2-Day Inventory & Prioritization Sprint
$6,500 — two founding pilot slots for the sprint
Sprint scopeProduction Readiness Review
Starting at $20,000 — two founding pilot slots for the full review
Review scope and deliverablesReplies within one business day.
Delegated Trust is an independent personal practice and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Salesforce.