Platform capabilities

EKO provides the core controls required to operate AI systems in production with professional governance standards across cloud and on-prem estates.

Policy engine

Evaluate requests against policy before model output and before external actions execute.

Controls: permissions, allowed actions, source constraints

Approval orchestration

Gate high-impact changes and risky operations through explicit approval workflows.

Controls: role-based approvals, change traceability

Evidence requirements

Require supporting evidence and preserve provenance for sensitive or regulated outputs.

Controls: evidence policy, source lineage

Audit records and export

Capture append-only governance events and export records for audit and incident processes.

Controls: reviewability, external reporting support

Tenant-aware governance

Enforce isolation boundaries for policy state, records, and administration scopes.

Controls: enterprise segmentation and multi-tenant readiness

Usage and operational metering

Measure policy evaluations, approvals, and governance operations across teams and tenants.

Controls: chargeback, budgeting, service-level management

Core differentiators

These capabilities are what security, compliance, and platform buyers evaluate first.

Fail-closed supply chain

EKO enforces a fail-closed posture with zero-waiver gate discipline and cryptographic verification in release paths.

Signed-image enforcement

Cosign attestation and signed-image policy controls are used to block unsigned workloads at cluster boundaries.

Dual-approval governance

High-risk promotions are governed by dual-approval and evidence freshness checks to remove single-point trust failure.

Immutable evidence bundles

Every decision path can be backed by tamper-evident governance artifacts for audit and forensic review.

Financial Twin calibration

Calibrated governance economics reduce cost/performance drift and improve tenant-level value explainability.

Deterministic replay and shadow release

Replay fixtures and shadow checks validate changes before promotion, with confidence signals for go/no-go decisions.

Composable control plane architecture

EKO can be deployed as a modular governance layer so teams can apply controls where risk is highest first, then expand coverage across the stack.

Policy packs

Apply baseline controls by domain and progressively tighten based on tenant, workflow, or risk category.

Approval adapters

Route high-risk decisions through existing operations, legal, or security approval workflows.

Evidence pipelines

Bind provenance and required evidence checks to decision classes that need regulatory or internal defensibility.

Release and runtime gates

Combine pre-promotion replay controls with runtime action gating to reduce hidden drift and unsafe deployment paths.

Tenant governance profiles

Operate one platform with differentiated governance posture by business unit, customer tier, or regulatory scope.

Operator cockpit workflows

Track jobs, decisions, confidence signals, and exceptions in one operational governance surface.

Why EKO evolves through governed change

Enterprise policy changes constantly: legal obligations shift, security standards tighten, and internal controls mature. EKO is designed so governance can evolve quickly without creating opaque behavior changes.

No autonomous policy rewrites

EKO does not silently rewrite critical control logic. High-impact changes move through explicit operator workflows.

Evidence before trust

Promotion decisions can require fresh evidence, approval artifacts, and replay/shadow results to reduce accidental regressions.

Determinism as a safeguard

Golden replay discipline treats fixture and behavior deltas as governed changes, not background noise.

Operationally reversible

Policy lifecycle controls support review, canary, rollout, and rollback so teams can adapt quickly while preserving control.

Tenant-specific maturity paths

Each tenant can move at its own governance maturity pace without forcing a single hard-coded posture across the enterprise.

Continuous calibration

Financial Twin and confidence instrumentation keep governance aligned to changing operational and economic reality.

What we provide before full deployment

Even before production screenshots exist, we provide concrete artifacts that let technical buyers validate architecture, controls, and release discipline.

Governance workflow walkthrough

Step-level lifecycle map for propose, simulate, approve, verify, and promote pathways.

Control and policy mapping

Module-level mapping of enforcement controls, approval gates, and evidence requirements by rollout profile.

Release gate evidence model

Replay/shadow go-no-go expectations, fail-closed criteria, and remediation expectations.

Security posture package

Signed artifact controls, runtime admission posture, and webhook hardening model for security review.

Build your enterprise control plane

Yes, EKO can ship in parts. Teams can start with one profile and add controls over time without replacing the underlying platform.

Control Module
Foundation
Enforcement
Regulated
Sovereign
Runtime policy gate
Included
Included
Included
Included
Tool/action execution controls
Optional
Included
Included
Included
Dual-approval orchestration
Later phase
Optional
Included
Included
Evidence freshness checks
Optional
Included
Included
Included
Signed-image/attestation gates
Later phase
Included
Included
Included
Deterministic replay + shadow
Later phase
Optional
Included
Included
Financial Twin calibration
Later phase
Optional
Optional
Included
RLS no-drift governance tests
Later phase
Optional
Included
Included

Recommended rollout motion

Most teams onboard in phases to prove value quickly and then expand into deeper governance controls.

Phase 1

Enforce critical runtime decisions

Put EKO in front of model and tool execution flows to stop unauthorized or unsafe behavior.

  • Runtime policy gating
  • Action permissions
  • Governance event logs
Phase 2

Institutionalize approvals and trust

Add formal governance workflows so high-impact decisions cannot bypass evidence or oversight.

  • Dual-approval gates
  • Evidence freshness checks
  • Attestation and image signature policy
Phase 3

Optimize reliability and economics

Scale control-plane confidence with deterministic release discipline and measurable ROI signals.

  • Replay and shadow promotion
  • Financial Twin calibration
  • Executive confidence scoring

Built for operators, not just demos

EKO is designed for governance teams, platform engineering, and security stakeholders who need clear controls and verifiable outcomes.