Case Studies &
Governance Archive
A public, reproducible record documenting practical approaches to runtime policy enforcement, auditability, decision provenance, and institutional trust for advanced AI systems.
Case Study 001: Authority Overreach Prevention
In 2012, a trading firm lost $440 million in 45 minutes due to unintended reactivation of deprecated code.
AST scanning detects unauthorized execution path reactivation; the runtime sandbox (Diamond Cage) isolates and blocks anomalous behavior; the Decision Audit Chain logs approval history.
Case Study 002: Policy Drift Management
An organization updates its internal policy to comply with EU AI Act Article 12 v2, but live agent systems continue operating under the old ruleset due to stale retrieval.
Detects policy change via continuous monitoring, generates signed evidence packages, and pushes updated compiled rules to connected Anchor runtimes.
Case Study 003: Audit Reconstruction
Malicious or security-compromised embeddings introduced into a vector store lead to incorrect but policy-compliant agent decisions.
Canon ensures source material freshness and authenticity, while Anchor enforces runtime validation of LLM output against the current active policy manifest.
Case Study 004: TSB Bank IT Migration (2018)
An analysis of TSB Bank's 2018 IT migration failure, focusing on how configuration drift and missing deployment integrity verification led to a £600M disruption.
Case Study 005: Citibank Revlon Transfer (2020)
A study of Citibank's 2020 Revlon wire transfer error, demonstrating how the lack of structured authorization records and validation constraints resulted in a $500M loss.
Upcoming Assessments & Active Audits
We regularly run Anchor's frozen engine checks against mainstream autonomous frameworks to audit governance boundaries, capability leakage, and unsandboxed execution limits.
OpenHands Runtime Governance Audit
Analysis of process-level Docker boundaries, AST parsing triggers, and the semantic coupling of core message contracts in production integrations.
crewAI Boundary & SDK Resolution Audit
Static capability check evaluating direct public API initializations, execution delegation tradeoffs, and local CLI subprocess sandboxing.
LangGraph Cyclic State Checkpointing Audit
Auditing of state transitions, local execution parameters, and simulation environment governance boundaries in graph configurations.