Governance and authority solve different questions.
Both are required for controlled production AI. Governance asks whether an AI use case should exist. Authority asks whether a specific action is permitted right now.
Should this AI use case exist, and how is it controlled?
ServiceNow provides governance and enterprise context: AI Control Tower, IRM, GRC, ownership, policy, workflow and evidence.
Is this specific action authorised right now?
VORTIQ-X provides an independent runtime AI Action Authority layer that evaluates protected actions against enterprise-defined authority before execution.
Both are required for controlled production AI.
From enterprise authority to evidenced action.
The enterprise defines authority. ServiceNow provides governance and context. Karvin implements the operating model. VORTIQ-X evaluates protected actions at runtime. Evidence returns to enterprise governance.
Policy, delegation, ownership, risk appetite and regulatory requirements. The enterprise, not the AI, decides who may act and under what conditions.
AI Control Tower, IRM / GRC, ownership, risk, policy, workflow, approvals and enterprise context. The governance system of record.
Boundaries defined by risk, data sensitivity, system, user, financial limits, approval thresholds and context. Karvin translates organisational rules into implementable authority requirements.
An independent runtime AI Action Authority layer. It determines whether a protected action is authorised under the enterprise-defined authority model before that action becomes an operational consequence.
Only the authorised action executes in the target system. The enterprise system acts according to the implemented authority model.
Every decision and action is recorded and returned to enterprise governance and evidence systems where appropriate, for audit and regulatory reporting.
Karvin is the specialist implementation and advisory layer. Karvin is not a runtime software layer. Karvin designs and implements the operating model connecting enterprise governance, ServiceNow and runtime authority.
Governance and authority, connected.
AI Inventory & Assessment
Authority Boundaries
Runtime Enforcement & Evidence
A procurement agent proposes a £75,000 supplier action.
This is an illustrative example, not a named customer deployment.
An AI procurement agent proposes a £75,000 supplier action. Before it executes, four roles must work together.
- • Financial authority limits
- • Supplier rules
- • Risk requirements
- • Approval thresholds
- • Agent ownership
- • Risk classification
- • Supplier context
- • Policy
- • Workflow
- • Approval requirements
- • Governance evidence
Karvin designs how those organisational requirements become implementable governance and authority boundaries, connecting ServiceNow context with VORTIQ-X runtime evaluation.
VORTIQ-X evaluates whether this specific protected action is currently authorised under the enterprise-defined authority model, before execution.
The action is within the agent's delegated authority and may proceed.
The action is outside the agent's authority boundaries and is blocked.
Human approval is required where configured, before the action may proceed.
Illustrative example only. This is not a named customer deployment unless confirmed.
ServiceNow provides governance, workflow and enterprise context.VORTIQ-X introduces an independent runtime authority decision for protected AI actions.Karvin implements the operating model connecting them.
The enterprise defines authority. The AI does not grant itself authority.