Agents that pass second-line review, every time
For CTOs, AI centre-of-excellence leads and engineering leads building agents.
The question you are asked
iSystematic works with engineering leads who are asked how to build agents that pass second-line review every time, not one at a time. The answer is one build line, where every agent carries the same contracts and leaves the same records.
Where most start
Most start by reading the deposited specifications, free on nabeelkhan.com, and then run a pilot of the Governed Agent Factory.
PEVG
Planner, Executor, Verifier, Generator: four contracts that make a failure attributable to one role. Deposited specification.
Read more →PARA
Perception, Action, Reasoning, Adaptation: four faculties an institution can revoke. Deposited specification.
Read more →Five-Gate Deployment Model™
A deployment discipline for AI systems, from G1 Data and Design to G5 Operation. Deposited specification.
Read more →Pattern Language
Patterns for governed routing, agent orchestration and AI-native delivery, including the Boundary Invariant and the BOE Declaration. Deposited specification.
Read more →What we deliver
One solution and one tool, both built on the specifications above.
Governed Agent Factory
A repeatable build line: PEVG contracts, BOE-shaped evidence, and gate records G1 to G5 for every agent, ready for second-line review.
Read more →Maxim
iSystematic's Claude Code plugin for governed, framework-citing AI output. It runs on Claude today; editions for other assistants follow one platform at a time, each after it passes the test checklist there. Maxim is under the Business Source License 1.1.
Read more →What you hold at the end: a fictional sample
This fictional PEVG contract is for one fictional agent that answers staff policy questions from an approved library.
| Role | Contract | What it may not do |
|---|---|---|
| Planner | Breaks a staff question into look-ups against the approved policy library | Call any tool outside the library |
| Executor | Retrieves passages from approved, versioned documents | Read retired or restricted documents |
| Verifier | Passes only claims that a retrieved passage supports | Pass a claim because two models agree |
| Generator | Answers from passed passages only, citing the section | Answer when the verifier passed nothing; it refuses instead |
Fictional, for illustration.
One gate record, fictional
This fictional validation record is for the same agent.
| Field | Entry |
|---|---|
| Gate | G2 Validation |
| Agent | Policy question agent |
| Validated by | An engineer outside the build team |
| Evidence | A benchmark on the task, the refusal log, and an adversarial test set |
| Result | Passed, with two refusal rules tightened before approval |
What it is built on
The Governed Agent Factory applies the specifications above at every step; the full stack is on How we build.
| Framework | In this work | You keep |
|---|---|---|
| PEVG and PARA | Every agent is built from declared contracts and a registry entry. | Contracts; registry entries |
| Golden Path (OP-1) and Policy-Bounded Agentic Delivery (OP-2), from the Pattern Language | One paved road for every team, with delivery guardrails and trust tiers. | The golden path; trust-tier register |
| Benchmark Before Authority (OP-4) | An agent gains authority only after it passes a benchmark on the task. | Benchmark records |
| Five-Gate and the MESA MRM Framework™ | Five gate records per agent, and validation by someone who did not build it. | Gate records; validation reports |
| Event identity | Routing, execution and delivery evidence joined for each request. | Reconstruction on demand |
Buying from us
You contract with iSystematic Inc., in Canada. Build work is delivered by the studio's team of 10+ expert builders; enterprise readiness work is led by Nabeel Khan personally.
First steps, such as the Automation Assessment and a Pilot, are fixed fees, shared on a short call. A build is scoped after the pilot, and AgentOps is monthly.
Start
Read the specifications first; when you want an agent built this way, ask about a pilot.
Read the specifications
The deposited framework index on nabeelkhan.com.
Read more →Ask about a Governed Agent Factory pilot
One agent on the build line, with its five gate records. Fixed fee, shared on a short call.
Read more →Talk to us
Tell us which agents you are building and who reviews them.
Read more →Where to go next
Operations leaders
For COOs: iSystematic's two-week Automation Assessment scores ten candidate tasks, recommends three solutions and sets a baseline before anything is built.
Read more →Compliance and procurement
Compliance and procurement leads: run the AVRF vendor questionnaire yourself for free, run it with iSystematic, or govern the AI programme through readiness.
Read more →Governed Agent Factory
The Governed Agent Factory is one build line for every agent: PEVG contracts, BOE-shaped evidence and five gate records, ready for second-line review.
Read more →AgentOps
AgentOps from iSystematic: monthly monitoring, evaluation re-runs, vendor and model change checks, a monthly note, and retirement of agents nobody uses.
Read more →How we build
How iSystematic builds: every solution uses the same deposited frameworks. See what each part decides, what the client keeps, and each specification's DOI.
Read more →Conformance is self-declared; no regulator endorses this work.