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AAES (Autonomous Agentic Enterprise Systems) is the governance layer for enterprise AI agents. It applies permissions, approvals by authorized persons, and spending limits to actions routed through AAES, and records each decision. An action whose decision cannot be recorded does not proceed. Each registered agent has at least one accountable human manager. Employee access stays in your existing identity provider.

No. Keep employee access in Microsoft Entra, Okta, or your existing identity provider. Name the agent’s first approver in AAES. A directory integration can supply additional approvers where required; live tenant compatibility is validated during the design partnership.

On an enforced path, a capability the operator registers as irreversible always requires approval by an authorized person; no policy can switch that off. Policies can require approval for other requests too. Each approval covers exactly one request: the intent and the exact request content the approver reviewed. If anything in the request changes, the approval no longer applies, and every approval expires. Actions through alternate paths are not prevented by this. An action approval applies only to the bound request; an access approval instead authorizes the specific entitlement requested, which may permit multiple requests within its scope and lifetime, each still subject to its action-level controls. The API also records agent-manager decisions and automated approval paths; these are distinct from approvals by authorized persons. They can never satisfy the mandatory authorized-person approval for a capability registered as irreversible, and an agent cannot approve its own request. A named approver recorded on a record is an attribution field; it does not by itself establish that the person was authenticated and authorized. The approver is the person authorized to decide that request; an agent cannot approve itself.

Yes. A capability can be registered as observed, with every record labeled accordingly. AAES can block an action when it controls the required credentials and the agent cannot bypass that path. While the agent retains its own direct credentials, AAES can record reported activity but cannot stop the call.

The agent authenticates to AAES and requests a registered capability. AAES evaluates policy, obtains any required approval, journals the decision, and executes the permitted call using the configured customer-controlled credential path. The broker returns the permitted result rather than handing the downstream credential to the agent. This describes brokered execution, not observation-only integrations. Credential exposure through downstream responses, errors, logs and records remains a deployment test requirement. Credential isolation is not data isolation: AAES does not control arbitrary subsequent use of data already delivered to an agent.

Requests requiring a new AAES decision fail closed if AAES is unavailable or the required decision journal cannot be written: no new grant or brokered execution is authorized through that path. Previously issued grants can remain usable until expiry, for up to 15 minutes. This does not cancel work already authorized or undo downstream effects. Observation-only and bypass paths are not stopped by AAES’s unavailability. Employee access remains governed by your identity provider. You operate availability on your infrastructure; no availability SLA is offered today.

You retain your exported records and the offline verifier supplied with your deployment. Check exported records for integrity without connecting to an AAES service. A configured independent witness or timestamp authority can provide external evidence about a signed head, within that service’s scope. Neither is connected by default. That evidence does not attest to capture completeness, policy correctness, enforcement effectiveness, or regulatory compliance.

If your agents live on one vendor’s cloud and that vendor’s tooling satisfies your reviewers, those tools are a reasonable answer. AAES is designed for estates that need customer-controlled custody of third-party credentials, approval as a precondition of dispatch, per-action ceilings on business spend through your own payment credentials, and exported records designed for offline integrity verification, across agents on any platform. AAES is pre-launch; the differences are stated as claims with dated sources on the comparison page, which also credits what the vendors genuinely offer.