Designing authority infrastructure around real agentic workflows.
OTIS Labs is opening a small number of selective design partnerships with organizations building, deploying, or operating agents and robots in consequential environments.
If your agent or robot does something that cannot be easily undone, or that matters if it goes wrong, someone will ask who authorized it. We want to talk.
- Robots that move, lift, or hand things to people
- Lab, factory, or warehouse automation an agent now operates
- Fleets running across sites, operators, or owners
- Anything with an e-stop, where no one can say who authorized what it stopped
- Agents that spend, send, sign, or delegate
- Agents that change records, code, or infrastructure
- Agents working across teams, tools, or organizations
- Agents in regulated or high-trust settings
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Which of these sounds like you?
A robot brings medication to a patient's room. Who authorized the handoff, and does that still hold at the door?
A warehouse arm operates a station shared with people. Who allowed this motion, now, with a person in reach?
A fleet of delivery robots runs across three cities under three operators. Which operator answers for this action?
An agent pays a vendor invoice. Who approved this amount, to this counterparty, today?
An agent updates a patient's record. Who is the person behind the agent, and were they allowed to change this?
An agent deploys code to production. Was this deploy ever authorized for this service, this environment, this hour?
The questions you already ask of any responsible party, who authorized this, under what bounds, and who answers for it, now have to be answerable for AI agents and robots too, with growing urgency, because these systems do not follow instructions precisely. They interpret in the moment. OTIS Labs works on making those questions answerable at the moment an agent or robot acts, with evidence you can rely on, so that you can assess, insure and regulate the way you already do. We are mapping how this fits the frameworks you use today, the EU AI Act, DORA, FINRA, SEC recordkeeping, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, NYDFS, GDPR, the NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 and AIUC-1. This is a growing area of research. We are here to work with you.
Work with us on regulation and insuranceIf you maintain an agent protocol, a hardware standard, or an evidence format and are thinking about where authorization belongs in it, we want to work with you.
Bring authorization into your protocol