We are letting AI agents launch simulation jobs on our platform, and that worries us. We need hard autonomy limits, not guidelines, plus action logs our auditors will accept as evidence. A good solution must run entirely inside our authorised boundary, never move data out, and fit federal assessment expectations. Who has handled this under strict data rules?
DevTools · Cloud & Infrastructure · 200–1000 · North America #b015_17
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We offer a cloud platform for engineering simulation and scientific computing, used by manufacturers and defense-adjacent organisations with strict data handling needs.
- Industry
- DevTools & Software · Cloud & Infrastructure
- Size
- 200–1000 employees
- Region
- North America
- Tools budget
- $5K–20K per month
- Needs
- Regulatory reporting. Pursuing a higher government impact level means continuous monitoring deliverables that our compliance team assembles mostly by hand.Today: a principal compliance specialist working directly with auditors on federal and defense frameworks · Urgency: this yearGuardrails for AI agents and LLM apps. As AI agents start launching simulation jobs, we need enforceable autonomy limits and logs auditors will trust.Today: agent actions logged and bounded by tiered autonomy levels built into the platform · Urgency: this year
- Who decides
- head of compliance · procurement
- Expects from suppliers
- Experience with defense export control requirements; Evidence formats federal assessors accept; Deployable inside an authorised boundary
- Not a fit
- Vendors without government authorisation path; Tools that move data outside our controlled environment
- Stack
- multi-cloud, compliance tooling in place, LLM APIs in production
- Buying triggers
- upcoming audit or certification, AI adoption push
Needs
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