The agents recommend and draft. Binding authority stays with the human board of record — enforced by NornGate in the runtime, not bolted on by policy.
Every agent — senior bench or composable add — inherits the same three controls. Adding agents never adds an ungoverned surface.
Filings, market-facing communications, and anything that obligates the issuer queue for board ratification before execution.
All outbound communications pass an automated Reg FD screen regardless of which agent produced them.
Every decision, justification, and ratification is SHA-256 hash-chained to the prior entry — retroactive edits are detectable.
Some authority never leaves a licensed human. NornGate blocks these at the orchestration layer and logs the attempt.
Take notice — Bill, Tom, James, Mary, Lisa, Robert, and Joe are autonomous artificial-intelligence systems. They are not natural persons, hold no officer, director, or fiduciary capacity, and are not licensed attorneys, certified public accountants, registered investment advisers, or broker-dealers.
No output constitutes legal advice, an accounting or audit opinion, investment advice, a solicitation, or an offer to buy or sell securities. All material corporate actions are reviewed and executed by the issuer's human board of record and separately retained licensed professionals. Disclosure aligns with the SEC Investor Alert on AI (Jan 2024), FINRA Reg. Notice 24-09, FTC guidance on AI claims (Sept 2024), Colorado SB24-205, and California AB 2013.
See the ratification gate and audit trail in a working walkthrough.