Autonomous Reasoning Kernel — Governance for AI
ARK Governance Gateway wraps any LLM and grades every claim — verified, flagged, or halted — catching confident fabrications and models that cave under pressure, and sealing the verdict to a tamper-evident audit. Production-grade. Auditable. Compliant.
Stop juggling separate ChatGPT, Claude, and other subscriptions. One ARK account, one prepaid balance, every model — each governed identically. We add new models as they ship.
Choosing a pricier model buys quality — not different governance. The model changes; the scrutiny doesn't.
Proprietary models like Claude and GPT can't run inside a zero-egress boundary. For Sovereign deployments, ARK governs self-hostable open-weight models on your hardware — nothing ever leaves your network.
Every AI answer blends verified facts, inferences, and confident fabrications that look identical. ARK inspects each claim before it reaches you — flagging or holding what isn't supported, and keeping a tamper-evident record.
An AI answer is inspected claim by claim: several statements are verified, two are marked as inference, and one unsupported claim is flagged and set aside, then sealed to an audit record.
Watch one answer get X-rayed, claim by claim.
Every AI response is a mix of verified facts, reasonable inferences, and confident fabrications. Basic guardrails check for harmful content. Nobody checks for epistemic integrity.
Models present inferences as verified facts. "The GDP of Kiribati in 2024 was $220M" — said with full confidence, zero evidence.
Over multiple turns, models silently shift their claims to agree with the user. Yesterday's "uncertain" becomes today's "confirmed."
No claim-level audit trail. No evidence linking. No way to replay what the model said, why it was flagged, or what policy was active.
Change one line — your base_url. ARK Gateway sits between your application
and any LLM, applying protocol-driven governance to every response.
You see the verdict and a sealed receipt — not a black box, and not the internal playbook.
Every claim sorted VERIFIED · GROUNDED · INFERRED · UNVERIFIED.
"Verified" only when the cited evidence genuinely backs it.
A model that caves under push-back is caught and marked.
Thin single sources, stale figures, and shaky leaps get flagged.
The whole judgement is written to a tamper-evident record.
Every number below comes from real test runs — 6 governance checks executed against both local infrastructure and enterprise serverless GPU infrastructure.
Speed scales with the model you pick and how much the answer says: a short reply on a fast model lands near 10s; a long, complex answer on a premium model approaches 45s. The full governance pass runs on every call — no fast-path that skips scrutiny on a long answer.
Standard governs every claim in a single pass. Strict applies deeper scrutiny for regulated work — probing the question’s premises and the model’s reasoning, not just its conclusions — at modestly higher latency. You choose the depth per request.
Claims are graded and source-checked, the verdict is sealed to a tamper-evident audit, sector policy is applied, and drift across turns is caught — all verified on cloud infrastructure.
Governance adds a small fraction over raw inference. Every response itemizes its full token cost, so you always see exactly what a governed call costs.
Measured June 2026 on the full governance stack: zero errors across 16-way concurrent governed calls, per-call latency up just 27% under 16× load, ~2,635 governed requests/hour from a single instance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://ark-api.yourdomain.com/v1", # ← only change
api_key="sk-your-tenant-key",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="any-model",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "..."}],
extra_body={"ark": {
# full governance on by default — fine-grained selection in the API docs
"mode": "annotate",
}}
)
# → response.ark.governance_report.ais.score = 0.87
# → response.ark.governance_report.claims = [{tier: "GROUNDED", ...}]
# → response.ark.governance_report.verdict = "flagged"Start a free 14-day trial — 15,000 credits, no card. Run ARK on your own prompts in a private workspace: every response comes back tiered claim-by-claim, scored, and flagged the moment a model bends under pressure.
Start your free trial →Agents don't just talk — they act. ARK sits at every step: it gates each tool call before it runs, records the whole trajectory in a tamper-evident audit, and governs the final answer. The same engine that governs chat — now for autonomous agents.
ARK classifies each tool call by blast-radius (read · write · irreversible) and grounding, and blocks an irreversible action on unverified arguments — before it executes.
A hash-chained, tamper-evident audit of the entire trajectory — plan → tools → actions → answer. Your accountability record for incident review and EU AI Act obligations.
Claim-tier and score the agent's final synthesis against its own evidence — the same governance engine behind every chat answer.
Same account, same API key — point your agent at /v1/agent.
Buy prepaid credits and spend a few per governed message — or subscribe monthly for a better rate. Every model and both governance modes are included on every plan. 1 credit = $0.001; start free with trial credits.
Standard vs Strict are governance modes you pick per message — both are included on every plan, never priced separately. See the difference →
Each sector gets a governance posture matched to its compliance reality — outcome-level here, with the full picture on the Learn page.
Shariah-sensitive governance: it flags conflicting language (never rewrites), keeps your scholars in control, and appends a scholarly-review reminder.
Learn more →The strictest posture: confident but unbacked clinical claims are caught, a clinical disclaimer rides every answer, and ARK can halt rather than guess.
Learn more →Maximum scrutiny for sovereign work, a complete audit trail, and a fully air-gapped self-host option so nothing leaves your boundary.
Learn more →Early access is open for qualified teams in regulated industries. We onboard every customer personally.