Operate. Monitor. Design.
One governed agentic platform
EmpowerNow doesn't just govern agents — it runs them. Interactive workflow agents, always-on Sentinel monitors, and a visual agent builder, all governed by the same runtime controls that protect your BYO agents.
Three Modes, One Platform
Internally, three execution engines optimized for different problems. Externally, one governed agentic platform with a shared identity, policy, and evidence layer.
Governed Workflows & Interactive Agents
170+ production identity workflows. Interactive chat agents that execute governed operations in real time. Visual workflow designer with 60+ components. Every connector action exposed as an authorized MCP tool.
Sentinel — Always-On Autonomous Agents
24/7 heartbeat-driven monitoring agents. Continuous compliance checks, orphaned account detection, privilege drift alerts. Cryptographic evidence chains for every governance decision. Desktop worker for browser, shell, and file automation.
Visual Agent Builder
Drag-and-drop workflow composition with LLM activity nodes, supervisor patterns, and n8n-style debugging. Custom agents governed by the same identity policies as production workflows. Build once, deploy governed.
The reactive tax is real.
Identity managers spend 12.5 hours per week checking queues, chasing approvals, and triaging alerts manually. That's $97,500 per manager per year in reactive overhead — $4.875M annually for a team of 50.
Managers manually scan approval queues every few minutes. Approvals sit for hours. SLA breaches compound.
Teams adopt consumer AI tools to fill the gap. No governance. No audit trail. No credential isolation. Compliance risk grows silently.
When auditors ask "who approved this?" the answer is days of log archaeology. Not proof — just reconstruction.
Sentinel
Governed Conversational Desktop Automation
Govern what agents do on real machines. Delegation, approval, and proof — from browser to desktop to phone.
Sentinel turns the user's real machine into a policy-governed execution surface. One brain across browser, desktop, and mobile. Server-side authorization, signed envelopes to workers, and cryptographic evidence for every action.
Agent runs locally with full machine access. Executes shell commands and browser actions. No authorization model. No credential isolation. No audit trail. The user trusts the agent completely — or not at all.
Server-side control plane authorizes every action. Cryptographically signed envelopes dispatched to lightweight desktop workers. Credentials never leave the vault. Risk-tiered approval gates. Full proof chain. The agent never controls the machine — the policy does.
How Sentinel Works
One brain. Three execution surfaces. Every action governed by ARIA's trust stack.
Heartbeat scheduler runs checks continuously — 5-minute, hourly, daily. Per-check model selection.
Every action through the CDA pipeline. Allow, deny, or escalate to human review via WAITING.
RSA-PSS signed, policy-hash-pinned, single-use. Workers execute governed instructions, not raw authority.
Every execution produces a cryptographic receipt — hash-chained, tamper-evident, auditor-ready.
Three Execution Surfaces
Browser, desktop, and mobile — all governed by the same server-side control plane.
Conversational Agent Chat
Full agent interaction through the EmpowerNow browser interface. Agents compose across desktop tools and SaaS integrations in a single conversational thread. Voice input supported.
Local Worker
Lightweight agent on Windows, macOS, or Linux. Pair-code provisioned, runs as the logged-in user. Shell commands, file operations, screen capture, clipboard, browser automation, notifications — all governed by signed envelopes.
Approval & Evidence Anywhere
Approve or reject long-running workflows from your phone. Review evidence cards, preview actions, and maintain oversight without being at your desk. Teams, Slack, and WhatsApp channels supported.
Enterprise Tool Packs
Every tool pack runs through the CDA pipeline. OAuth Vault manages credentials. Every action produces evidence.
Technical deep-dive Deep dive: Sentinel architecture, signed envelopes, and recursive self-improvement
One Brain, Three Surfaces
Sentinel uses the existing AgentExecutorService as its sole orchestration engine — no duplicated LLM brain. The sentinel acts as a tool provider via MCP, exposing 12+ desktop connectors as governed tools callable by the agent. Browser, desktop voice, and mobile all connect to the same agent thread. Tool composition works across surfaces: an agent can combine screen.capture (desktop) with jira.issue.create (SaaS) in a single turn.
Command Envelope Security
Every desktop action is dispatched as an RSA-PSS signed CommandEnvelope containing connector metadata, action parameters, risk tier, safety rules, and initiator identity. The envelope includes a policy_snapshot_hash — a canonical JSON hash of the envelope constraints. Workers validate the hash before execution. Envelopes are single-use with lifecycle tracking: issued → claimed → started → completed | blocked | cancelled | expired. Policy-hash mismatch auto-cancels execution.
Risk-Tiered Execution
Low risk (observe, read): pre-approved, no human gate. Medium risk (click, type, navigate): bounded policy with allowlist. High risk (shell, delete, write): per-step approval via WAITING protocol. Every tier produces evidence — the difference is whether a human approves before execution.
Recursive Self-Improvement
Sentinels learn from four signal classes: Preference (tone, format, timing), Utility (helpful vs. noisy), Correctness (factual accuracy), and Outcome (real-world impact). Each class has different optimization safety: preference signals allow aggressive optimization; correctness and outcome signals require verification. Every behavioral change is auditable — traceable to specific feedback signals and governed by the same authorization boundaries that control execution. Approval does not equal truth.
Evidence-First Design
Every sentinel action produces one of three card types: Evidence Cards (action results + cryptographic proof), Digest Cards (summaries with source links), and Score Cards (metrics and achievements). Cards render natively across Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, email, and the in-app dashboard. Actions taken on evidence route through the CDA pipeline with deterministic outcomes. Externally-visible content (social posts, external emails) is always generated as a draft and waits for human approval before posting.
What Agents Do
End-to-end JML triggered by HR events. Provisioning, access assignment, certification, and offboarding — all governed, all proven.
Monitors approval queues on 5-minute heartbeat. Auto-approves low-risk items. Escalates anomalies. Cuts approval latency by 92%.
Continuous access reviews. Detects orphaned accounts, privilege drift, and SoD violations. Reduces audit findings by 95%.
Security alert triage and first-response automation. 91% faster incident response with governed containment actions and evidence packs.
60-second daily brief in Teams or Slack — calendar, priority emails, Jira changes, pending approvals. All from governed tool packs.
Generate governed connectors exposed as MCP tools — no code to write, no code to maintain. Point an AI agent at an API, get a production-ready connector with OAuth Vault credentials, CDA authorization, and cryptographic evidence built in.
approval latency
reduction
less routine work
per manager
fewer audit
findings
annual value
at enterprise scale
How Agents Are Packaged
EmpowerNow agents are included in the offers where they deliver value — not sold as a separate line item.
ARIA Control
Govern your existing agents with runtime controls. Minimum embedded execution — ARIA Control is the control plane, not an agent platform.
ARIA Enterprise
Everything on this page. Sentinel, governed workflow agents, visual designer, tool packs, FinOps controls, and custom agent creation. The full governed agentic platform.
IGA & SAP Offers
Packaged agent use scoped to identity governance and SAP workflows. Custom agent creation requires ARIA Enterprise or Automation & Fulfillment.
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