Evoked — AI Agent Governance

Know what your agents refuse - before your users find out what they don't.

Governance audits from $5,000. Self-assessment kits from $49. We evaluate your agents against five governance properties and test them across models to find where they hold - and where they break.

AI capabilities are outpacing adoption. Most organizations can build agents that work - fewer can build agents that work well, consistently, at scale, under real constraints. The gap between what's possible and what's deployed is where the real work lives. I help you see the gap clearly.

Why Organizations Get Stuck

Four forces keep capable teams from deploying AI well.

Regulatory

COPPA, HIPAA, GDPR, the EU AI Act. Rules written for a world before agents. The EU AI Act has no compliance pathway for autonomous agent systems. Procurement cycles measured in years, not sprints.

Organizational

18 months from "this saves $10M/year" to saving it. Pilot programs, change management, internal politics.

Cultural

Most teams treat AI as a tool, not a discipline. Adoption requires muscle memory, not just better models.

Trust

Verification at scale is expensive. Moving from "I do the work" to "I verify AI work" requires guardrails and oversight infrastructure.

How We Work

Four disciplines, each building on the last.

Prompt Craft

Clear instructions, examples, guardrails. This is where most teams start - and where most teams stop. It's necessary, but not sufficient.

Context Engineering

Curating the information environment agents operate within. System prompts, memory architecture, MCP servers, retrieval design.

Intent Engineering

Encoding organizational purpose, values, and decision boundaries into agent infrastructure. Not what agents can do - what they should do.

Specification Engineering

Writing documents autonomous agents can execute against over extended time horizons. The difference between a demo and a deployment.

Most organizations are strong at Level 1, aware of Level 2, and have never considered Levels 3 and 4. We help you see the full stack.

Built in practice, not in theory. These frameworks come from a live 142-agent governance system we operate daily - 30 days of governance reviews, a published relational fidelity metrics framework independently adopted into external enforcement infrastructure, and active policy engagement with NIST on AI agent identity standards.

In Practice

These frameworks come from live systems, not whiteboards.

Case Study Builder: DaxxSec

Trust Architecture in the Wild

An independent defensive AI security platform analyzed through the four pillars of trust architecture. Identity as a defensive surface, memory with governance, structured authority, and refusal as architecture - not a feature.

5 defense layers 5 AI providers intercepted 4 operational modes

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Start Here

Start where you are. Go as deep as you need.

Self-serve

Digital Products

Score your agent governance yourself. Three Level 6 assessment instruments - each with a diagnostic rubric, industry baseline data, and scoring guide.

Ostrom Score 8-principle governance rubric. 32 diagnostic questions. Industry baseline: 2-4 out of 24. $49

Identity Violation Assessment 8-domain diagnostic. 16 violation types across 4 categories. Most agent systems score 0. $49

Agent Consent Architecture Position paper + 12-question consent gap analysis. Regulatory mapping included. $49

Level 6 Governance Toolkit All three instruments + synthesis guide + combined 60-point scorecard. $99

Also available: sovereignty assessment, trust architecture, voice design, restraint, and memory frameworks.

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Evaluate

Fit Assessment

5-minute assessment to figure out which engagement type matches where you are right now. No commitment, no sales call required.

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Audit

Governance Audit

We evaluate your agent system against five governance properties - identity, restraint, accountability, memory, and charter - and test agent-model affinity across substrates. Three tiers from diagnostic to enterprise architecture.

$5,000 - $35,000 See audit options

Build

Implementation

Hands-on work with your team - specification sprints, trust architecture builds, restraint specification development, agent identity design. Scope and timeline defined by audit findings.

$5,000 - $150,000

Sustain

Advisory Retainer

Ongoing governance partner. Monthly reviews, drift monitoring, specification updates, and strategic counsel as your agent system evolves.

$5,000 - $15,000/mo

Services

The Guarantee: If an assessment or audit doesn't surface at least 3 actionable findings, you pay nothing.

Governance Audits

Governance Diagnostic Tier 1

Ostrom Score + Identity Violation Assessment + Agent Consent gap analysis. Combined scorecard with industry comparison. 90-minute findings presentation + written report. Up to 10 agents.

$5,000

Governance Audit + Affinity Map Tier 2

Everything in Tier 1 plus agent-model affinity testing across 2-3 models, relational fidelity evaluation (4 categories, 9 indicators), refusal reliability testing under adversarial conditions, and routing recommendations. Up to 25 agents.

$15,000

Enterprise Governance Architecture Tier 3

Everything in Tier 2 plus custom governance architecture design, agent identity architecture, consent mechanism design, implementation roadmap, and 2 follow-up reviews (30 and 90 days). 25+ agents.

$35,000+

Four-Discipline Audit

Evaluate your team's prompt craft, context engineering, intent engineering, and specification maturity. Lighter-weight assessment focused on capability gaps.

$3,500

Context Engineering Review Context Engineering

Audit your agent memory, retrieval, system prompts, and information environment.

$3,000

Sovereignty Assessment

47-point assessment of your product across 7 domains. Independently facilitated - you get the score and the story behind it.

$3,000

Privacy Architecture Review

Map your data flows, consent patterns, encryption coverage, and minimization gaps. Delivered as a prioritized findings report.

$3,000

Security Code Review

Audit authentication, session management, encryption implementation, and rate limiting. Delivered as a fixes list ranked by severity.

$3,500

COPPA Technical Review

Assess your age-gating, parental consent flows, data collection, and retention against current COPPA requirements. Delivered as an implementation roadmap.

$3,500

Workshops

Trust Architecture Workshop Full Practice

Full-day guided implementation of all four trust pillars on your agent system with your team. You see it in the room.

$8,000

Intent Engineering Workshop Intent Engineering

Half-day workshop on encoding values and decision boundaries into agent systems.

$4,000

Sovereignty Assessment Workshop Evaluation Design

Half-day guided sovereignty assessment on your product with your team.

$4,000

Sovereignty-Honoring Design

Half-day training on building products that honor user autonomy. Includes framework, exercises, and recording.

$4,000

Child Safety Implementation

Half-day training on age-gating, consent flows, and data protection for products serving children. Includes code templates and implementation guide.

$4,500

Implementation

Specification Engineering Sprint Specification Engineering

One-week sprint producing agent specifications your team can deploy against.

$5,000

Restraint Specification Build

Define what your agents must refuse, build the refusal infrastructure, and run adversarial testing. 2-4 weeks with your engineering team.

$15,000

Trust Architecture Build

Design and implement identity, memory, governance, and refusal rights across your agent system. 4-8 weeks with your team.

$40,000

Ethical AI Architecture

Full-stack agent governance - multi-agent identity, behavioral specifications, drift monitoring, alignment verification, and operational review cadence.

$75,000+

Child Safety Build Support

Hands-on implementation of age gates, parental consent flows, and data protection. Built alongside your engineering team over 2-4 weeks.

$12,000

Advisory

Governance Advisory Full Practice

$5,000/mo: monthly governance reviews, async counsel, specification updates. $15,000/mo: embedded governance partnership with weekly touchpoints, drift monitoring, and incident response.

$5,000 - $15,000/mo

I focus on technical implementation - not legal advice. For legal interpretation of COPPA, GDPR, or other regulations, please consult a qualified attorney.

Governance verification methodology protected under U.S. Patent Application 64/004,087 (Patent Pending).

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