AgenticFides

Making Agentic AI insurable.

Specialist governance and risk advisory for carriers, syndicates and reinsurers.

Seattle
01 — Brief

The risk surface is shifting.

AI agents are running enterprise functions: negotiating contracts, settling claims, managing procurement, handling customer service, and deploying production code. Anthropic's 2026 State of AI Agents Report finds 57% of enterprises running agents in multi-stage workflows, including 16% spanning multiple functions.

For carriers, this is a new risk category. The underwriting frameworks built for human-operated businesses do not yet have the vocabulary, the controls, or the actuarial basis to price it. We help carriers build them.

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Agent decision failure
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Model hallucination, fabrication & deception
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Data protection & privacy breach
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Algorithmic discrimination
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Cyber & prompt-injection exposure
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Regulatory violation & drift
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Faulty delegation of authority
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Multi-agent cascade failure
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Unauthorized tool access and execution
02 — Practice

Five lines of counsel.

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Agentic AI risk assessment

Structured evaluation across seven dimensions: technical, governance, data protection, cyber, regulatory, liability, and accumulation. Output is a risk profile for the underwriting committee.
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Governance frameworks

Frameworks for carrier and insured: roles and responsibilities, human-in-the-loop design, incident response, vendor governance, and model lifecycle.
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Underwriting enablement

Direct support to underwriting teams: defining insurable AI risks, drafting exclusions, structuring policies, classifying risk, and setting minimum control requirements for insureds.
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Regulatory & legal mapping

Mapping across EU, UK and US AI regulations, privacy regulations, cybersecurity statutes, and operational resilience frameworks.
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Governance certification

Certification models, governance maturity benchmarks, and a market standard for insurable AI governance — alongside an AI risk rating platform for syndicates.
— Forthcoming
03 — Method

How an engagement runs.

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Architecture review

System architecture, degree of autonomy, data access structures, decision-making authority — documented before any control assessment.

ii

Governance blueprint

Governance handbook, role and responsibility model, control framework, incident protocols — built around the carrier's risk appetite.

iii

Underwriting support

Risk scoring, AI risk taxonomy applied to the book, insurability criteria, and minimum control requirements.

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Incident simulation

Closed-loop simulation of AI loss scenarios: erroneous contract execution, data breach, incorrect claims decision, agent operational failure.

04 — Counsel

Founder-led.

Two founders — one in law, one in AI. They run the engagements.

Co-Founder — Senior Legal Counsel
Co-Founder, Senior Legal Counsel
Dr. Matthias Artzt
Financial services, AI & data protection
Extensive professional experience as an attorney and in-house counsel in the financial services industry, with a focus on artificial intelligence and data protection. Speaker, editor and author of numerous specialist publications in these fields. Work spans governance frameworks, policy structures and risk management.
Co-Founder — AI Pioneer
Co-Founder, AI Pioneer
John deVadoss
Frontier AI, machine learning & cloud computing
Frontier AI researcher and start-up founder (successful enterprise AI exit), having multi-decade enterprise software engineering background, with a focus on cloud computing. Author of multiple books on software architecture, frequent speaker at global technology forums. Work spans machine learning, agentic architecture, and recursive AI.
05 — Publications

Recent publications.

Research
Designing Intelligent Enterprise Agents: A Capability-Aligned Multi-Agent Architecture
deVadoss · arXiv, May 2026
Op-ed
Agentic AI Is acting, but the law still assumes humans
Artzt & deVadoss · Solicitors Journal, Apr 2026
Op-ed
Don’t Regulate AI Models. Regulate AI Use
deVadoss · IEEE Spectrum, Feb 2026
Journal article
PromptCraft’s Gray Zone: Owning Agentic AI Workflows Without Owning Ideas
deVadoss · Int’l In-house Counsel Journal, Dec 2025
Research
Agentic Economics: A Novel Macroeconomic Theory, Production Architecture and Dynamics of AI
deVadoss · SSRN, Nov 2025
Research
A Hypothetico-Deductive Approach towards Human-AI Interaction: Conjectures, Refutations, and Design Implications
deVadoss · SSRN, Aug 2025
Op-ed
Congress should create a public AI wealth fund
deVadoss · The Hill, Aug 2025
Journal article
Legal and Governance Issues regarding Agentic AI in the EU and Japan
Artzt, Ahn & Otake · Int’l In-house Counsel Journal, Jun 2025
Research
A Byzantine Fault Tolerance Approach towards AI Safety
deVadoss & Artzt · arXiv, Apr 2025
Op-ed
AI safety: why a new approach is needed
Artzt & deVadoss · Solicitors Journal, Mar 2025
Standards report
AI Convergence Report — GSMI 6.0: Toward Decentralized & Open-Source AI: Transparency, Privacy, Security, and Reliability
deVadoss (working-group chair) · Global Blockchain Business Council, 2025
Book
International Handbook of AI Law: A Guide to Understanding and Resolving the Legal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Artzt (co-editor) et al. · Kluwer Law International, Dec 2024
Journal article
Can blockchain technology help mitigate the black box phenomenon of AI applications?
Artzt & deVadoss · Int’l In-house Counsel Journal, Oct 2024
Op-ed
How the EU and UK diverge in regulating AI
Artzt · Solicitors Journal, Aug 2023
06 — Engagement

Get in touch.

Initial conversations are confidential and can be made subject to an NDA.