Agentic Decision Assurance
Per-Agent Assessment Package
Agentic initiatives introduce irreversible design, scope, and risk decisions early in their lifecycle. Once these decisions are made, most structural failure modes can no longer be prevented – only mitigated.
The Agentic Decision Assurance package provides independent, decision-grade assessments at the critical points where agentic investments become locked in, enabling informed go / no-go and proceed / stop / adjust decisions with explicit visibility into risk, sustainability, and maturity.
- A productized assessment package, scoped per agent
- A decision support service, not an operational role
- Fixed scope, fixed cadence, fixed fee
- Independent, neutral, and evidence-based
This service is designed for SteerCo oversight, portfolio governance, and accountable decision-making in agentic initiatives.
- No delivery responsibility
- No design or solution ownership
- No implementation guidance
- No embedded or continuous support
Ownership for execution, mitigation, and outcomes remains fully with the initiative.
Four decision checkpoints aligned to irreversible moments.
The package consists of four decision checkpoints, aligned to the moments where agent design, scope, and risk become hard to reverse.
Question: Is this agentic initiative structurally viable, and are exit options still open?
Purpose:
- Identify predictable failure modes before commitment
- Surface scope, dependency, and sustainability risks while choices are still reversible
Question: Is the initiative scoped in a way that can realistically succeed?
Purpose:
- Validate agentic scope, boundaries, and assumptions
- Prevent early commitment to low or negative ROI trajectories
Question: Have early risks been addressed, and are late risks visible and manageable?
Purpose:
- Assess whether known early risks are being burned down
- Ensure late-phase risks are explicitly recognized before they materialize
Question: Can this agent operate safely, sustainably, and with accountable ownership?
Purpose:
- Assess operational readiness and sustainability signals
- Avoid late discovery of structural or governance issues post-launch
Decision-grade assessment reports at each checkpoint.
Each checkpoint results in an assessment report containing:
- RAG Status – executive-level signal of overall agentic health
- Risk Register – explicit documentation of key risks and their implications
- Action Items – concrete, owned follow-up actions (execution remains with the initiative)
- Recommendation – decision-grade input: Proceed / Stop / Adjust / Risk Accepted
Assessments are neutral, factual, and designed to support accountable decisions – not to prescribe solutions.
- Inputs required are specified upfront
- One focused session per checkpoint (typically up to 2 hours of Product Owner / Initiative Lead time)
- TAC performs independent assessment
- Written report delivered per checkpoint
- No participation in delivery activities
Success means:
- Go / no-go and proceed / stop / adjust decisions are made with explicit visibility into agentic risk, sustainability, and maturity
- Structural issues are identified before they become expensive or irreversible
- Risk acceptance, where chosen, is documented and intentional
Flat fee per agent. No open-ended engagements.
The Agentic Decision Assurance package is offered as a flat fee per agent, covering all four assessments. There is no time-based billing and no open-ended engagement.
This model scales with the agent portfolio and avoids employment-like structures.
Ready to add assurance to your agent portfolio? Schedule a conversation to see how Agentic Decision Assurance fits into your governance model.