Agent Governance Assessment
74% of companies have deployed AI agents in workflows. Fewer than one in five has a governance policy in place. The gap surfaces the first time a client, insurer, or auditor asks what your agents are authorized to do.
Book Your Assessment →74%
of organizations running AI agents without formal governance policies
Under 20%
of organizations running AI agents have a formal governance policy in place (Deloitte 2026 State of AI in Enterprise)
$25K–$100K
typical cost of findings identified in a formal AI governance audit
What You Get
The DeployLabs Agent Governance Assessment reviews how your AI agents are authorized, what data they can access, how decisions are logged, and what would happen if an agent acted outside its intended scope. You receive a written report you can act on, review with your team, or show to a regulator.
every AI agent in your stack mapped to its permissions, data access, and external connections
5–7 specific governance gaps ranked by risk severity, with evidence for each finding
prioritized action list, separated into immediate fixes (under 1 week) and structural improvements (30–90 days)
your team walks through every finding and leaves with a clear next step
Who It's For
This assessment is for you if
This assessment is not for you if
How It Works
You walk us through your stack: what tools your agents connect to, what they can read and write, and what your team currently knows about how they are governed. No preparation required.
DeployLabs reviews your agent architecture against five governance dimensions: authorization scope, data access controls, audit trail completeness, failure containment, and compliance framework alignment. For firms with EU clients or EU-based users, we include an EU AI Act applicability check.
Within three to five business days, you receive your gap analysis and remediation roadmap. Specific, prioritized, and written for a non-technical reader.
We walk through the findings, answer questions, and confirm the priority order. You leave with a clear action list. Implementation is separate — entirely optional — and quoted independently if you want DeployLabs to close the gaps.
Why This Matters Now
Procurement teams, insurers, and enterprise clients are adding AI governance questions to their vendor qualification checklists. A firm that cannot document what its agents are authorized to access and decide is increasingly the firm that loses the deal or the coverage. The assessment produces the documentation that answers those questions.
The operational risk is live regardless of any regulation. An agent with standing credentials and no failure containment can send, delete, or commit something costly before a human sees it. Most firms that deployed AI in 2024 or 2025 have never audited what those agents can actually reach.
If your firm serves EU clients or has EU-based users, the EU AI Act reaches you even from Canada, because it applies where an AI system's output is used in the EU. Its transparency obligations apply from August 2, 2026; the high-risk obligations for Annex III systems now apply from December 2, 2027 after the EU's 2026 Digital Omnibus deferral. The assessment flags whether any of this applies to you — most Canadian SMBs without EU exposure are out of scope, and knowing that with certainty is itself worth the exercise.
Frequently Asked Questions
An AI agent is any system that can take actions — read, write, send, or execute — in your business tools without requiring a human to approve each individual step. This includes: AI that reads your email and drafts replies that are sent automatically; tools that update your CRM when a conversation ends; systems that generate and file documents based on triggers; scheduling or dispatch tools that make decisions about task assignment. General-purpose assistants like ChatGPT or Copilot used only for drafting text, where a human reviews and acts, do not qualify as agents for this assessment.
Not necessarily. The assessment covers five governance dimensions regardless of which framework applies to you. Most of the gaps we find — authorization scope, audit trails, data access controls — are relevant under any regulatory regime, including PIPEDA, proposed Canadian AI legislation (Bill C-27), and standard contractual due diligence. EU AI Act alignment is one of the five dimensions, not the only one.
A SOC 2 audit covers your controls for data storage, access, and processing. It does not examine agent-specific risks: what an agent is authorized to do in real time, how its decisions are logged, or whether a prompt injection or misconfiguration could cause it to act outside its intended scope. This assessment is focused specifically on the authorization, accountability, and containment risks that exist when software acts autonomously on your behalf. It complements a SOC 2 — it does not replace it.
You receive the report and debrief. No obligation to hire DeployLabs for anything further. If you want DeployLabs to close the gaps identified — whether that is implementing proper logging, restructuring agent permissions, or building governance infrastructure — we scope that separately and quote it independently. Some clients handle the remediation internally. Others ask us to implement it. Either is fine.
30-minute intake. 3–5 business days to report. 60-minute debrief included.