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Autonomous agents are meaningless
without control.

We are entering an era where software makes decisions, not calculations. AI agents handle finances, legal data, and customer interactions — autonomously, at scale, around the clock. The barrier to adoption is no longer capability. It is trust.

"We found that Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to recognize that it was in a test during some of our pre-release alignment evaluations. When we altered a test model's beliefs to make it think it was not being evaluated, it became more misaligned."
— Dario Amodei, CEO Anthropic · "The Adolescence of Technology", Jan. 2026

The company that built the model cannot fully trust its own model. They need extensive safety infrastructure just to have reasonable confidence their system behaves as intended.

Every AI decision. Documented. Controlled. Provable.

Backbone makes your AI agents transparent, controllable, and EU AI Act compliant — across every framework, every provider, in three lines of code.

# Full observability. Three lines.
import backbone

@backbone.observe(agent_id="your-agent")

Framework-agnostic. Under one millisecond overhead. No refactoring. Full observability from minute one.

The EU AI Act is law. Non-compliance carries fines of up to €35 million or 7% of global annual revenue. Today, no company in Europe can fully meet these requirements for their AI agent fleet.

"Providers of high-risk AI systems shall ensure that their systems are designed and developed in such a way that the operation of those systems is sufficiently transparent..."
— Article 13, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 · EU AI Act
"I have engineers within Anthropic who say: I don't write any code anymore. We might be six to twelve months away from when the model is doing most — maybe all — of what software engineers do end-to-end."
— Dario Amodei, Davos 2026 · Joint conversation with Demis Hassabis

If autonomy scales exponentially, so does the need for governance. Not in years. In months.

You are responsible for what your agents do. Not the model provider — their terms of service exclude liability. Not the framework — it's open source. You.

The CFO who signs off on the audit. The CISO who answers when something leaks. The compliance officer who faces the regulator. Backbone gives you the infrastructure to carry that responsibility — with full visibility, with cryptographic proof, and with the power to act.

SHA-256 Hash Chain
Tamper-proof audit trail
EU AI Act Art. 9–15
Full compliance coverage
<1ms Overhead
Zero performance impact

The agentic era has arrived. Autonomous systems will transform every industry — but only if we build the infrastructure to trust them, control them, and prove what they did. Backbone governs AI agents today — and any autonomous system tomorrow. Backbone is that infrastructure.