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Everything you need to understand and present ENSIGN: the governance protocol for AI agents acting across institutional boundaries.

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See how ENSIGN verifies an external AI agent's identity, authority and accountability before it can transact across institutional boundaries.

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Maritime Law for Autonomous AI Agents

How centuries-old flag-state doctrine solves the governance gap that opens when autonomous AI agents begin transacting across institutional boundaries.

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Agent governanceThe SeamTrust asymmetryFlag-state doctrine
ENSIGN: Governance Beyond the Perimeter - The four-step handshake between two institutions connected through the ENSIGN control gate
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Governance Beyond the Perimeter

The four-step ENSIGN handshake: present the passport, verify the controls, set the boundary, and bind the shared record. Maritime doctrine applied to autonomous AI.

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Crossing the Seam: Governing AI Beyond the Perimeter - The decision ladder, flag-state doctrine and evidence layer
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Crossing the Seam

The complete ENSIGN landscape: two institutions, the control gap, the decision ladder, flag-state doctrine, dual-signed receipts and port-state control.

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ENSIGN

Inter-institutional agent control

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The control gap

Governance stops at the perimeter. Agents do not.

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The Seam

Where two control environments meet and neither has authority over the other.

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The handshake

Present, verify, decide, bind. Four steps before either side is committed.

ENSIGN Executive Briefing

A concise introduction to the governance gap that opens when AI agents transact across institutions, and how ENSIGN closes it with verifiable passports, graduated decisions and dual-signed evidence.

22 slidesPDFUpdated 2026
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See it work

From briefing to live demonstration in three minutes.

Run the guided control scenario, test a cyberattack, inspect the passport and evidence layer.