compliance infrastructure for AI systems

6. Compliance Infrastructure: Audit Trails, Policy-as-Code, and the Append-Only Principle

TL;DR We had an AuditLogger that wrote to Loki only — the audit_events Postgres table sat empty for weeks. We had OPA running on a static policy…

Red-Teaming AI — OWASP LLM Top 10 and the Probes You Actually Need

5. Red-Teaming AI: OWASP LLM Top 10 and the Probes You Actually Need

TL;DR We had heard of the OWASP LLM Top 10, and we had implemented fewer than half of it. We had PyRIT installed, and we had almost…

Securing Agentic AI Authentication, Authorization, and PII

4. Securing Agentic AI: Authentication, Authorization, and PII

TL;DR Our five-agent banking AI platform had OPA wired into exactly one agent. The MCP server had no auth middleware. All five agents shared one API key….

The 57-Gap Audit — Gap Categories and Discovery Method

3. The 57-Gap Audit — What “Done” Actually Means in Production AI

TL;DR After weeks of building a multi-agent AI platform — five agents, full pipeline, red-team harness, control UI — the system looked done. It wasn’t. A config…

The Engineering Platform: Orchestration, Monorepo, and the Stack Decisions

2. The Engineering Platform: Orchestration, Monorepo, and the Stack Decisions

TL;DR Once you decide to build a multi-agent AI system, you face three engineering choices that will determine whether the platform is governable or just functional: what…

From Monolith to Multi-Agent

1. From Monolith to Multi-Agent — Why One AI Is Not Enough for Regulated Finance

TL;DR A single AI agent cannot safely handle a regulated financial decision. The problem is not capability — it is separation of concerns, auditability, and governance accountability….