One runtime. Every AI agent action, evaluated before it executes.
Runtime Authority is not a single feature -- it's the runtime that connects your delegated authority, your policy, and every AI agent's intent into one deterministic decision, with evidence behind it.
Two inputs, one decision, two layers of evidence
What Runtime Authority evaluates against
Authority Graph
Who holds authority, who it's delegated to, and what constraints apply -- modeled from your existing governance documents.
Runtime Policies
Deterministic rules, compiled once from your policy, versioned like code, evaluated against every intent.
Runtime Authority evaluates
The signed intent, the Authority Graph, and the active Runtime Policy set are evaluated together, deterministically, in sub-millisecond time.
What comes out of the decision
Authorization Decision
Allow, Deny, or Human Review -- deterministic, sub-millisecond, produced before execution.
Evidence Portal
Every decision becomes signed, searchable evidence -- investigated, audited, and exported today.
Authorization Receipt
The planned evolution of that evidence into a portable, self-contained artifact.
Verification
Confirmed independently -- by an auditor, insurer, or regulator -- without depending on PayReality's live systems.
Authority and policy stay separate because they answer different questions
The Authority Graph answers "who is entitled to delegate what, to whom." Runtime Policies answer "under what conditions is a given action permitted." Runtime Authority doesn't collapse these into one system, because your organization doesn't either -- your org chart and your approval matrix are already two different documents, maintained by different people, on different cadences. The runtime respects that separation and evaluates both, together, for every intent.
See the full runtime evaluate a real decision
From signed intent to decision to evidence, in one session, against your own governance documents.