Digital asset

Governing Agentic AI - A Corporate Thriller. A Visual Playbook.

Niharika Srivastav

Niharika Srivastav

AI Governance Practitioner and Educator. Ex-BofA, Deloitte, Blue Shield of CA

Sanjay Saxena

Sanjay Saxena

Chief AI Officer, Ex-KPMG, Deloitte, CVS. Harvard Alum.

See all products from Responsible AI

Govern Agentic AI with the VERDICT Framework

A Visual Playbook for Governing AI That Can Think, Decide, and Act

AI agents can now plan, decide, use tools, access data, and take action. Traditional IT governance programs were not designed for agentic AI.

This book shows you how to govern AI systems that do more than generate answers.

The book combines a corporate thriller, visual storytelling, real-world scenarios, and practical governance playbooks to make one of the hardest problems in AI easier to understand and apply.

At the center of the book is VERDICT, our practical framework for governing Agentic AI across:

Validation • Evidence • Runtime Control • Decision • Identity • Cost & Compliance • Transparency

What You’ll Learn
  • How Agentic AI changes the risk landscape

  • Where traditional AI governance breaks down

  • How agents can fail through tool abuse, excessive permissions, poor identity controls, weak oversight, and uncontrolled autonomy

  • How to design approval gates, runtime controls, evidence trails, and accountability

  • How to apply the VERDICT framework in real-world organizations

  • How to move from policy documents to operational governance

Who This Book Is For

This book is designed for:

  • Chief AI Officers and AI leaders

  • Project & Program Leaders

  • Business professionals

  • AI Governance and Responsible AI professionals

  • CISOs and cybersecurity teams

  • Risk, compliance, legal, and audit professionals

  • Product and engineering leaders

  • Consultants and advisors

  • Executives responsible for deploying AI agents

Why This Book Is Different

Most AI governance books explain governance.

This one shows you what happens when governance fails.

Through a fictional corporate storyline, visual explanations, practical scenarios, and implementation guidance, you will see how Agentic AI risks emerge and what organizations can do about them.

The goal is simple:

Help you answer the question every organization deploying AI agents will eventually face:How do you let AI act without losing control?

Get your copy of Governing Agentic AI today.

AI Registry

Compliance Dashboard Monitoring

Prompt Injection Protection

Kill-Switch Protocol

Explainability Tooling

The Story

$39

USD

AI agents can act. Learn how to govern them before autonomy becomes liability.