What is Nomotic?
AI agents act in milliseconds. Humans review in hours. The gap between those timescales is where risk lives.
Traditional governance tools govern requests — binary allow/deny decisions at the API boundary. Nomotic governs agents — behavioral trajectory, trust evolution, drift detection, and multidimensional scoring across the full agent lifecycle.
Nomotic is the Behavioral Control Plane™ for AI agents. It evaluates every agent action at runtime across 14 dimensions simultaneously, delivering sub-millisecond governance decisions with interrupt authority and dynamic trust calibration.
Core Features
14-Dimensional Evaluation — scope, authority, resources, behavior, impact, stakeholders, incidents, isolation, timing, precedent, transparency, human oversight, ethics, and jurisdiction evaluated simultaneously
Agent Identity & Birth Certificates — cryptographic identity with governance hash binding
Dynamic Trust — trust scores evolve with every action (+0.01 per success, -0.05 per violation)
Behavioral Fingerprints — operational signatures that define what "normal" looks like for each agent
Bidirectional Drift Detection — detects both agent behavioral drift AND human reviewer drift
Interrupt Authority — halt agent actions mid-execution with cooperative rollback and workflow governance
Hash-Chained Audit Trail — tamper-evident, cryptographically linked evaluation records
Reasoning Artifacts — structured externalization of agent deliberation for governance evaluation
Key Concepts
Behavioral Control Plane™ — The product category. Where networking has a control plane that governs packet routing, Nomotic provides a control plane that governs agent behavior. Every action is evaluated, every decision is recorded, every drift is detected.
Runtime AI Governance™ — Describes when governance happens. Not after the fact in a compliance review. Not at deployment in a static policy check. At runtime, before every action, throughout the full agent lifecycle.
The Should Layer™ — The philosophy. Traditional systems govern what agents can do (permissions, access control). Nomotic governs what agents should do — behavioral expectations, ethical constraints, stakeholder impact, and organizational values.
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Principles — the philosophy behind Nomotic's approach to trust, governance integration, and conflict resolution
Architecture — how the runtime evaluation engine works under the hood
Dashboard — real-time agent monitoring, approval queues, drift alerts, and compliance scorecards
Reference — configuration, CLI, API, and schema documentation
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