# Pillar: Machine Governance

POLICY • CRYPTOGRAPHY • ZERO TRUST

## Overview

Machine Governance addresses the Principal-Agent problem in AI. We build the cryptographic constraints that ensure autonomous agents act strictly within their mandates.

### Primary Research

[**AP2 Mandates**  
Cryptographic enforceability in nondeterministic systems.](/content/intelligence/research/ap2-mandates/index.html)  [**Verifiable Compute**  
Proof of inference and model integrity.](/content/intelligence/research/verifiable-compute/index.html)

### Case Studies

[**The Medical Data Heist**  
Stopping exfiltration at the router level.](/content/intelligence/research/medical-data-heist/index.html)