AI is missing Process Transparency Infrastructure

Enabling Agent Trust

Agents today operate in the shadows - No visibilityof the steps they take, why they took them, or under what authority they operated.

The SADAR specification provides industry-grounded definitions for agent capability and data, business process context, and end-to-end attribution — delivering full transparency into how agents, tools, and resources are discovered, selected, and utilized.

SADAR is a community-governed open specification published under the Community Specification License 1.0.
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The Agentic AI Era has started. Are you ready?

Enterprise AI adoption for assistance has risen to more than 80% of organizations. The largest value - Agentic AI is still in single digit use.

Studies confirm that AI as an assistant has become firmly entrenched in organizations. They also reveal the increased use of AI-enabled modules within systems solving tasks unachievable with traditional systems. The next wave of adoption has started with Agentic AI.
Unlike traditional systems that are rigidly designed for a specific purpose and process flow, or even AI-enabled systems that fulfill a specific task, Agentic AI ushers in the ability for agents to recognize patterns, create an execution plan, identify the resources necessary to achieve its goal, and operate autonomously.
Not only will Agentic AI revolutionize automation, it will allow humans to interact with systems not constrained by the system's UI or workflow, but in ways we've yet to imagine. The potential value is enormous but so are the risks.
McKinsey, BDO, and others believe our ability to deploy Agentic systems has outpaced our control philosophy and capabilities. This is the gap SADAR closes.

Unlike traditional systems that are rigidly designed for a specific purpose and process flow, or even AI-enabled systems that fulfill a specific task, Agentic AI ushers in the ability for agents to recognize patterns, create an execution plan, identify the resources necessary to achieve its goal, and operate autonomously.
Not only will Agentic AI revolutionize automation, it will allow humans to interact with systems not constrained by the system's UI or workflow, but in ways we've yet to imagine. The potential value is enormous but so are the risks.
McKinsey, BDO, and others believe our ability to deploy Agentic systems has outpaced our control philosophy and capabilities. This is the gap SADAR closes.

Not only will Agentic AI revolutionize automation, it will allow humans to interact with systems not constrained by the system's UI or workflow, but in ways we've yet to imagine. The potential value is enormous but so are the risks.
McKinsey, BDO, and others believe our ability to deploy Agentic systems has outpaced our control philosophy and capabilities. This is the gap SADAR closes.

The Case of Trustworthy AI

Trust is the AI advantage

Trustworthy AI is not just a compliance checkbox. It is how organizations earn the right to deploy AI where it creates the most value — and how they sustain that deployment when scrutiny arrives.The organizations leading in AI aren't simply moving faster. They are building the trust infrastructure that allows them to move into consequential territory — regulated industries, customer-facing decisions, autonomous workflows — where ungoverned AI cannot follow.

Accountability isn't the brake on AI ambition. It is the accelerator.

The Compliance Imperative: Regulators and auditors are not waiting for AI governance frameworks to mature before they act. Agentic AI that cannot explain what it did, on whose authority, and within what compliance posture is not an acceptable deployment in regulated contexts. It is a finding waiting to happen. Organizations that build accountability into their AI infrastructure now are building the evidence base that every future audit will require.

The Competitive Reality: Trust is not soft. It is the mechanism by which AI adoption translates into business value. Without it, the people and organizations your AI is meant to serve will resist — predictably, and at cost:Customers will fear it, distrust outputs they cannot understand, and challenge decisions they cannot interrogate. The AI that was meant to serve them becomes a source of friction and churn.Regulators and auditors will treat ungoverned agentic systems as uncontrolled risk — because that is what they are. The organization that cannot demonstrate control invites the scrutiny it was trying to avoid. Employees will resent systems they are expected to trust but cannot verify. They will feel accountable for outcomes they did not control and cannot explain. The result ranges from passive workarounds to active opposition — and either one undermines the return on every AI investment upstream.

The Opportunity: Trustworthy AI is how you make the case to every stakeholder simultaneously. To your customers: here is how we protect your interests when AI acts on your behalf. To your regulators: here is the evidence of responsible deployment. To your board: here is how we manage this revolution without exposing the organization. To your employees: here is how we use AI in a way that supports your work rather than replacing your judgment with a black box.That case requires infrastructure. It requires that every agent action be attributable, every discovery be explainable, and every invocation carry the authority and business context that makes accountability possible.That is what SADAR provides.

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Specification questions, answered

Transparency and control for trustworthy Agentic AI

Who needs this specification?

This specification applies to any company deploying Agentic AI systems that must be auditable, explainable, and defensible needs this specification - even if they only use internal Agents. This isn't a matter of scale, it is a matter of control. Even as models and architectures mature, the requirements for explainability and attribution will persist.

How is this different from traditional controls?

Traditional controls rely on the repeatable, deterministic nature of the solutions. Agentic AI systems create their own plan, discovery resources such as other agents, tools, and data, and execute those plans. This dynamic nature is opaque, loses attribution, and, unlike traditional software, has no control for enforcing intent appropriately within a business process and with data in a valid state.

What are the main framework pillars?

Core pillars include deterministic discovery using established standards, unambiguous data tied to standards, agent discovery integrity, and end-to-end attribution.

How do I start implementation?

The specification can be implemented as needed - no big bang approach. You can implement the specification incrementally in terms of its features as well as what agents/tools/resources you need to include.

Assess your current risk management exposure and governance against the overall Trustworthy AI framework. Through that process, identify high risk/impact agents, tools, resources, and processes for high value starting points.

Is the framework openly licensed?

Yes. The specifications are licensed under the Community Specification License 1.0 subject to governance.  Feedback, workgroup participation, and contributions are highly encouraged.

Where are technical resources available?

Access technical docs, implementation guides, and references in the resource library and on the projects GitHub.

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1.2M

Annualized revenue under governance

88%

Stakeholder trust benchmarked

3,500

Frameworks implemented globally

500K

Systems with oversight