Confidential · Valo Research Group · Pre-seed · 2026
Consequence Safety · Pre-Seed 2026

Governance at the
execution boundary

AI agents now execute real-world actions — in code, finance, infrastructure, and healthcare. Content safety governs what the model says. VΛLΦ governs what the model does.

TLA⁺ verified ~43 ns gate decision Rust implementation EU AI Act Annex III
Step 1
Intent
VΛLΦ Gate
Gating
Step 3
Receipt
Step 4
Action
The Problem

Actions have consequences.
Safety has a blind spot.

AI agents no longer just answer questions. They execute actions — in code, infrastructure, finance, healthcare, and legal systems. The consequence of a hallucinated API call, an unauthorized file deletion, or an unlogged financial transaction is no longer a bad answer. It is a real-world event — with legal, operational, and reputational consequences.

"You cannot govern the probability cloud. You can only govern its collapse into action."

Content safety frameworks addressed what the model says. No production-grade system governs what the model does — until now.

The Product

VAIG — the runtime
that enforces the gate

VAIG (Valo AI Governance) is the core runtime, implemented in Rust. It enforces a mandatory gate at the moment of action, before any real-world consequence is produced. The admissibility core is TLA⁺-verified — machine-checkable correctness proofs on the invariants that matter. Actions that fail the admissibility test are halted — deterministically, in ~43 nanoseconds, with full audit trail.

L1 Guardian Gate
Deterministic admissibility decision at the execution boundary. Every action inspected before consequence.
Core Runtime
WORM Audit Log
Write-once-read-many record of every action and its authorization chain. Forensic-grade, tamper-evident.
Compliance
8-Instrument Ensemble
Unified distrust engine: provenance, coherence, authorization, rate, recency, scope, identity, replay.
Detection
ACS Protocol
Agent Control Standard for inspectability, traceability, and instrumentability of any agent.
Open Standard

The differentiator: Every framework we are aware of defines governance as policy documents or model fine-tuning. VΛLΦ enforces governance at machine speed, at the execution boundary, with a verifiable proof of decision. No one else has the running code.

Buyer Value

Every seat at the table
gets a hard answer

Commercial thesis: slightly higher control cost. Drastically lower consequence cost.

CISO
Hard perimeter around every agent action — auditable, enforceable, reportable
Chief Risk Officer
EU AI Act Annex III compliance by design — Dec 2027 deadline, covered
Chief AI Officer
Deploy autonomous agents without betting the company on model alignment alone
Platform / Infra
Drop-in governance layer — no model retraining, no prompt engineering
Proof

Not a whitepaper.
Running code.

TLA⁺ formal verification of core invariants — machine-checkable correctness proofs, not engineering assertions
Independent convergence: EFA (Rupp, Columbia Southern) and VΛLΦ derived the same admissibility architecture from separate first principles
~43ns gate decision latency in production Rust implementation — no latency tax on agent throughput
Regulatory alignment: EU AI Act Annex III, PLD (Dec 2026), and emerging NIST/ISO agent governance frameworks all require exactly the properties VAIG provides
Category validation: MosaicDM ("Trust runs on structure") is selling the problem. We are shipping the infrastructure.
The Ask

Pre-seed round
funding three milestones

We are looking for investors who understand that the next critical infrastructure category is not AI models — it is the governance layer between AI intent and real-world consequence.

1
Reference implementation release — Apache 2.0 open core, enabling ecosystem adoption and community trust
2
Enterprise Guardian Agent product — commercial offering with SLA, support, and enterprise integrations
3
ACS standardization — Agent Control Standard with IEEE/ISO working groups, positioning VΛLΦ as the protocol layer

Start the conversation

Njål Gaute Solland · Valo Research Group
Founder & architect of VΛLΦ