What Avyon Governance is
Most AI governance is assembled after the fact — a spreadsheet of models, a policy document nobody reads, and a scramble when an auditor asks which version made a decision in March. Avyon Governance inverts that. Every model entering production passes a sequence of recorded gates, every classification and approval is written to an append-only log, and the record is a by-product of running the system rather than a project undertaken before a review.
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What it is made of
Model Registry
Every model in the estate, its owner, its version, and the gate it has reached.
Risk Classification
Autonomy level and risk tier assigned per model, deciding what oversight it requires.
Deployment Approvals
A model reaches production through a recorded approval, or it does not reach production.
Drift & Bias Monitoring
Live monitoring against the baseline the model was approved on, with bias audits held per cohort.
Explainability Records
The stated basis for a decision, retained against the version that made it.
Risk Register
Scored risks, a heatmap, regulatory mapping, and a board report drawn from the same rows.
Audit Log
Append-only, integrity-verifiable, searchable, and exportable for a forensic request.
Retention & Legal Hold
Classification, residency, deletion log and legal holds, with holds overriding retention.
How it fits together
Governance sits beside the system it governs, not downstream of it.
- 01 EVENTCaptureEvery decision, approval and classification emits an event as it happens.
- 02 APPENDRecordEvents land in an append-only log; nothing in the product can rewrite one.
- 03 GATEClassifyModels carry a risk tier and an autonomy level that decide the oversight they need.
- 04 MONITORObserveDrift and bias are measured against the baseline the model was approved on.
- 05 EVIDENCEReportBoard reports and forensic exports read the same rows the operators do.
What is enforced, and where
Tenant isolation is enforced in the database
Row-level security on persistence, and tenant context taken from the signed token rather than a URL or a request body.
The audit log cannot be edited
Append-only by construction, with integrity verification available as a screen rather than a promise.
A model cannot self-approve
Production access is a recorded human decision. Automation prepares the evidence; it does not grant the approval.
Frameworks are named as targets
Controls are designed against SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Neither has been audited, and the product says so rather than implying otherwise.
Who this is for
Chief Risk Officer
Cannot currently answer which model version made a decision, or on what basis.
Head of Model Risk
Maintains the model inventory in a spreadsheet that is out of date the week it is written.
Chief Information Security Officer
Needs an audit trail that survives a forensic request without a reconstruction project.
Questions about Avyon Governance
Is this a compliance certification?
No. It is the machinery that produces evidence — a registry, recorded gates, an append-only log, monitoring against an approved baseline. An audit is something an auditor performs; this is what you hand them.
Does it work with models we already run?
The registry and the gate sequence are about the lifecycle around a model, not the model itself. What has to be added is the emission of events at the points where decisions are made.
Where does the data sit?
Single-tenant deployment in the region you require, or managed by us. Residency and retention are configured per tenant and shown on their own screens.
Can we see it before committing?
Yes. It runs today, and a walkthrough goes through the real screens rather than a slide deck.