Source evidence
Contracts, SLAs, invoices, work product, vendor communications, acceptance criteria, IP language, and delivery evidence enter the protocol.
Sentinel Governance ProtocolSource-grounded
From vendor activity to enforceable governance state.
Turn contracts, SLAs, invoices, delivery evidence, IP obligations, service performance, and vendor actions into hard gates, payment decisions, audit trails, escalation paths, and governance-ready records.
Workspace state
LiveWorkspace state
Sources, graph, scoring, actions, and exports remain connected.
Graph
Src
ROI
Risk
Audit
Act
Exp
Live operating state
Actions update the graph, dashboard, reports, and exports.
Sources
Graph
Health
Actions
Exports
Operating flow
Evidence becomes operating state.
The protocol structures source evidence, applies its method, records management actions, and updates the resulting operating state.
Governance graph
Vendors, obligations, SLAs, invoices, deliverables, owners, approvals, penalties, compliance gates, and evidence become mapped.
Governance scoring
MCOS calculates compliance, invoice approval status, SLA risk, penalty exposure, audit readiness, and vendor health.
Management actions
Teams validate SLAs, block invoices, release payment, confirm IP assignment, assign remediation owners, and escalate issues.
Recalculated outputs
Actions update invoice status, vendor score, compliance health, SLA risk, audit log, penalty exposure, and governance report.
Vudu Copilot
Ask about vendor status, SLA gates, or invoice holds. Answers are grounded in the live governance engine state, not a static snapshot of the contract.
Workspace modules
The durable asset is the working system behind the report.
Dashboards and exports matter. The deeper value is the structured evidence, operating state, decision logic, and management workflow that can be revisited and updated.
Vendor Dashboard
01Shows vendor health, SLA compliance, invoice status, unresolved gates, exposure, and executive governance state.
Vendor healthComplianceExposureStatus
SLA Verification
02Compares evidence against contractual SLAs, acceptance criteria, delivery obligations, and performance thresholds.
SLAEvidenceThresholdsExceptions
Invoice Gate
03Blocks or releases payment based on evidence, obligations, approvals, and unresolved governance conditions.
BlockReleaseApprovalEvidence
IP Assignment Check
04Verifies whether IP, work product, ownership, deliverables, and transfer obligations are satisfied.
IPOwnershipTransferWork product
Escalation Path
05Turns unresolved risks into remediation owners, escalation actions, and tracked governance outcomes.
EscalationOwnerRemediationDeadline
Governance Log
06Creates a tamper-resistant decision trail for payment, compliance, approvals, exceptions, and audit review.
Audit trailDecision logApprovalsExceptions
Management actions
A correction should change the operating record.
Validations, owner assignments, risk decisions, and approved changes are operating events. They should update the underlying state rather than remain comments beside a static report.
Management action → state update → recalculated dashboard → revised output.
Validate SLA
Recalculates state
SLA compliancevendor scoreinvoice approval statusaudit trail
Block Invoice
Recalculates state
invoice statuspenalty exposurevendor riskexecutive alert
Release Payment
Recalculates state
payment statusgovernance logvendor healthapproval record
Confirm IP Assignment
Recalculates state
IP statuscontract governance healthaudit readiness
Escalate Vendor Issue
Recalculates state
remediation planowner assignmentrisk statusgovernance report
Operating view
Governance decisions become enforceable operating controls.
Sentinel Governance turns vendor and contract evidence into payment gates, compliance checks, escalation paths, and audit-ready decisions.
Governance issue
Gate
Risk
Owner
Decision
SLA evidence missing
Block
High
Vendor Manager
Hold invoice
IP assignment incomplete
Block
Critical
Legal
Escalate
Deliverable accepted
Release
Low
Ops Lead
Approve payment
Remediation overdue
Escalate
Medium
Executive Sponsor
Assign owner
Governed output layer
Audit-ready governance enforcement package.
Sentinel Governance produces vendor compliance scoring, invoice decision logs, SLA evidence packages, IP checks, escalation paths, and board-ready audit trails.
Output package
Vendor governance report
Invoice decision log
SLA evidence package
IP assignment check
Penalty exposure summary
Remediation register
Governance log
Executive alert package
Audit trail export
PDF / JSON / CSV package
The Engine
One endpoint in. An enforced decision out.
The hard gates, the MCP tool surface, the deterministic engine and the audit chain, with a human on the loop issuing clearances — and the three ways to run it. Below that, the end-to-end journey from what you hand it to the governed endpoint.
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Click to view full size — the seven-step journey, ending at one /mcp endpoint
Enforcement, against a named target
“The model decided” is not a control.
PwC and OpenAI now sell a native, agentic finance function built on one lab. When an AI agent books real numbers, an auditor cannot accept “the model decided” as a control. That is exactly the gap Sentinel closes: hard gates the agent cannot bypass, a tamper-resistant decision trail, and a live operating state that recalculates as actions occur.
The most audit-sensitive systems in the company, wired to a single lab, inherit that model's pricing, access, and gating exposure and still cannot prove control. Sentinel supplies enforcement the client owns, independent of which model ran the step.
Enforce-before-execution
A context layer is not an enforcement layer.
GSIs and platform vendors are security-reactive: they detect and remediate after execution. Sentinel is enforce-before-execution. The gate is open or it is not, and every decision is written to a tamper-evident SHA-256 audit chain agents cannot override.