AI agents that do what they're for. Nothing more.
EBM AxioS is EBM's unique approach and technology for controlling AI agents without overly constraining them. It builds control into your AI agents from the start and evolves to maintain that control over time. Each agent can only act within its sanctioned remit, every action is recorded, and you can stop any agent instantly. That lets you scale adoption with confidence rather than caution.
Vendor-neutral · Runs on-premises or hosted · Enabled by our patent-pending Handles technology
- read: finance/invoicesallowed
- write: triage_queueallowed
- call: payments_apioutside remit
Watching an agent is not the same as controlling it.
AI agents can now read your data, call your systems and act for your people. Most organisations are deploying them faster than they can govern them. Gartner describes this as a widening gap between agent adoption and governance (Gartner May 2026).
The usual response is to add monitoring and guardrails after the agent is built. That catches problems once they've happened, and still leaves you explaining to auditors what an agent might have done. AxioS builds control into the agent itself, which reduces the need for guardrails rather than adding another one.
| Guardrails and monitoring | EBM AxioS: safe by design | |
|---|---|---|
| When control applies | After the agent acts | Before and during every action |
| What you get | Alerts and interventions | Agents that act only within their permitted remit |
| Assurance | Reconstructed from logs | A signed, tamper-evident record produced as the agent runs |
| Other controls | More guardrails layered on over time | Reduces the need for additional guardrails |
| Cost | Extra tooling and overhead | Fewer wasted tokens and less rework |
Show in advance what an agent can do. Prove afterwards what it did.
Your rules, as a knowledge graph
We codify the regulation, policy, practice and access rights that apply to your agents as rules in an ontology. Our approach uses automation and agents to do this at scale, with your experts reviewing and approving the result.
Handles: control by construction
Handles, our patent-pending technology, gives each agent access only to the data, systems and actions its remit allows. Every request is checked against the rules before it runs, and anything outside the remit is refused.
Evidence by default
Every action produces a signed, sequenced, tamper-evident record of what the agent did, when, and the rule that permitted it. Any agent, or all of them, can be stopped centrally.
Built for environments where control has to be proven.
AxioS helps government and industry gain the confidence to adopt AI agents at scale and realise their productivity benefits, instead of stalling in pilots. It reduces the likelihood and consequence of malicious or inadvertent agent activity, limiting harm to public services, critical national infrastructure and the economy.
Sovereign by deployment
Runs on-premises for sovereign settings, or hosted. No vendor lock-in.
Vendor-neutral
Plugs into open agent frameworks, works with any model and reuses existing policy standards such as Cedar.
Evidence, not assertion
Show in advance what an agent can do, and prove afterwards what it did, for auditors, regulators and FOI.
Contained by design
Agents are limited to their remit, reducing the impact of misuse or error. Any agent can be stopped instantly.
Confidence for everyone who signs off on AI.
Move faster to exploit AI, with less exposure
Approve agent use cases knowing their limits are enforced, not just promised.
Containment you can design for
Agents are limited to the capabilities their remit allows, and you can stop them instantly.
An audit trail by default
Every action is signed, attributable and ready for internal and external assurance.
Less spent on extra controls
Fewer additional guardrails to buy and run, and purpose-bound agents waste fewer tokens.
Questions leaders ask
Does it replace our security tools?
Not completely, but it works alongside them and can reduce the need for additional guardrails and tools. By limiting every agent to its remit and recording everything it does, AxioS significantly reduces risk.
Does this slow down adoption?
No. Control is designed in from the start, so assurance doesn't become a bottleneck at the end.
Which agent platforms and models does it support?
AxioS is vendor-neutral. It plugs into open agent frameworks, works with any model and connects existing agents through open standards such as MCP.
Where does our data go?
AxioS runs on-premises for sovereign settings, or hosted, so you decide where your data and records are held.
What happens if an agent needs to be stopped?
One central control pauses or stops any agent, or all of them, straight away, and leaves a full record.
See EBM AxioS in action.
Arrange a 30-minute briefing with our team.