AI Process Assurance

Prove your AI followed the path it was supposed to.

AI Process Assurance compares the expected workflow with what actually happened - so regulated teams can govern, evidence and safely automate AI-assisted work. We do it for insurance, financial services and other regulated industries.

Modules
Workflow Charter · Semantic Audit
Artifact
The AI Workpaper
Deploys
Hosted or single-tenant Azure
In one sentence

What is AI Process Assurance?

It is a way of governing AI-assisted work by comparing the path it was supposed to follow with the path it actually followed. Airclerk defines the expected path with a Workflow Charter, records what actually happened inside those instrumented workflows with a Semantic Audit, and shows the difference. The retained result is an AI Workpaper: a business-readable evidence record for every material decision.

The question behind the category

If an auditor asks in three years why an AI-assisted decision was made, what will you show them?

Platform logs, chat history and technical traces are useful, but they don't naturally produce a business-readable record of the work. Airclerk's answer is a retained AI Workpaper showing what happened, why it happened, what evidence supported it, what controls applied, and who approved the outcome.

01 / The model

The expected path, the actual path, and the gap between them.

Two records, one comparison. A Workflow Charter says what should happen. A Semantic Audit records what did. The gap between them is where governance, compliance and operational control actually live.

Expected path

Workflow Charter

The required stages, evidence, authority limits and approval gates for a repeatable process - plus the persistent memory that keeps an AI assistant on that path across sessions.

Actual path

Semantic Audit

A business-readable record of what actually happened, captured as the assistant works: the steps taken, the evidence used, the decisions made and the approvals recorded.

Control comparison

When the actual path diverges from the charter - a required approval missing, evidence not attached, a step skipped, a gate bypassed - Airclerk flags an exception. That is the moment an audit trail becomes operational control.

02 / The two modules

Standalone on their own. Far stronger together.

Each module earns its place alone. Semantic Audit gives you retrospective evidence. Workflow Charter gives your AI durable process memory. Run together, they give regulated teams control over AI-assisted work.

Module · Expected path

Workflow Charter

Defines what should happen — and remembers it

  • Workflow templates and per-instance state across stages.
  • Required evidence, authority limits and approval gates.
  • Persistent process memory across threads and sessions.
  • Next-step guidance - what's done, what's missing, what's blocked.
  • A generic engine; industry value comes from templates (renewals, claims review, complaints, KYC, and more).
Module · Actual path

Semantic Audit

Records what actually happened, in business language

  • Material actions, decisions and outputs - captured as the assistant works.
  • Evidence references with source, version and content hashes.
  • Human review and approval records against each decision.
  • Deterministic metadata anchors the AI's own narration.
  • Produces the retained AI Workpaper.
03 / The artifact

The AI Workpaper.

The thing you actually keep - and the thing you hand to a reviewer, an auditor or a regulator. Business-readable, not a technical log.

What a workpaper holds

Retained · exportable
Context and timeline
Material actions taken
Evidence used, with source links and hashes
Decisions and recommendations
Controls that applied
Approvals - who, when, against what
Exceptions and deviations flagged
Final outcome and output
04 / Where assurance finds risk

The exceptions worth catching.

Comparing expected against actual turns a passive record into something that surfaces configured exceptions automatically.

E-01

Missing approval

The charter required human sign-off before a client-facing communication. The audit shows none was recorded. Airclerk flags it.

E-02

Missing evidence

A claim decision required a policy-wording citation. The decision was drafted without one. The gap is visible, not buried.

E-03

Step skipped

A required claims-history review never ran before the renewal recommendation. The workflow moved on anyway - and that shows.

E-04

Gate bypassed

Work transitioned past an approval gate despite unmet criteria. Where that's visible in the instrumented workflow, it's flagged as an exception on the workpaper.

05 / Who uses the evidence

Built to be read by the people who ask.

A workpaper is only useful if the people who need it can read it without a data team. These are the readers it's written for.

  • Compliance and risk teams testing that controls operated
  • Internal audit, and external auditors at year-end
  • Operations and line-of-business leaders overseeing AI rollout
  • Claims, underwriting and advice managers reviewing decisions
  • Regulators and dispute-resolution processes, after the fact
  • The board, when it asks how AI-assisted work is governed
06 / The honest boundary

What we record - and what we don't.

A defensible record is one that's honest about its own edges. Here are ours.

What we record. The work that runs through Airclerk-connected workflows and tools, captured as the assistant works. Calls to Airclerk tools are recorded directly; other approved tool use is captured where it runs through the instrumented workflow, with reconciliation against platform traces where available.

What we don't claim. We don't pretend to capture work a person does entirely outside the workflow - copying an answer into a document and editing it by hand, or deliberately going around the rails. That's a control you own. Reconciliation against platform traces can narrow the gap over time.

07 / Where it runs

Inside the boundary your risk team already governs.

Airclerk can be hosted by us with per-tenant isolation, or deployed single-tenant into your own Azure tenant on request. Raw workflow data and source documents can stay inside your environment; Airclerk holds the configured evidence record, workflow state and control comparison. Full security posture on the Trust page.

Security & deployment
08 / See it on a real workflow

Agentic renewals.

The clearest place the value shows up first: commercial insurance renewals, run by AI agents and evidenced end to end. The renewal's charter defines the path; Semantic Audit records what happened; the workpaper is the retained record available for audit.

Explore agentic renewals

09 / How to start

One workflow, properly assured.

We start narrow: take one high-value workflow and make it a governed, evidenced workflow you can defend.

i.

Readiness Sprint.

Two weeks. We confirm scope, map your systems, define the charter and controls, and produce a board-ready implementation plan for the first workflow.

ii.

Implementation.

We charter the workflow, instrument the Semantic Audit, wire approvals and evidence, and stand up the workpaper - connected to your systems and your Claude environment.

iii.

Expected vs actual.

Turn on the control comparison: missing steps, missing approvals and unmet criteria surface as exceptions, and every run leaves a retained workpaper.

10 / FAQ

AI Process Assurance FAQ.

01What is AI Process Assurance?

A way of governing AI-assisted work by comparing the path it was supposed to follow with the path it actually followed. Airclerk defines the expected path (Workflow Charter), records what actually happened (Semantic Audit), and shows the difference - producing a retained, business-readable AI Workpaper for every material decision.

02How is this different from AI governance or model-risk tooling?

Most AI governance and model-risk tooling works before deployment - is the model safe, fair, accurate. AI Process Assurance works at runtime and after the fact: did the actual work follow the required path, with the right evidence and approvals. It's operational control, not pre-deployment testing.

03Can I buy just one module?

Yes. Semantic Audit stands alone as a retained evidence trail; Workflow Charter stands alone as durable process memory and guidance for your AI. The control comparison - expected vs actual - is what you get when you run both.

04Does Airclerk capture everything the AI does?

Airclerk records the work that runs through its instrumented workflows and tools, as the assistant works. It does not claim to capture work a person does entirely outside those workflows, such as copying an answer into a document and editing it by hand. That boundary is deliberate; deliberate human circumvention is a customer-side control, not something Airclerk pretends to catch.

05Is it tied to Claude?

Claude-first, platform-aware. Airclerk works as a sibling MCP alongside your other connectors, so the AI client decides which tools to call and Airclerk records the evidence, state and control around them. The evidence layer is independent of any single AI platform.

06Where can it be deployed?

Hosted by Airclerk with per-tenant isolation, or single-tenant in your own Azure tenant on request. Raw workflow data and source documents can remain inside your environment. See the Trust page for the full security posture.

Moving AI from pilot to production?

Let's assure one workflow.

If you're putting AI to work on material decisions and the evidence has become the limiting factor, this is the conversation.