AI agent governance
An AI agent is not just another tool. It is a delegation. It receives a mandate, acts in place of an employee and commits the company. So the first question is not technical. It is a governance question: who decides what the agent is given, under what rules, with what controls and what traceability.
This topic brings together Exelvys’s analysis of how a leadership team frames the use of AI agents. It covers the scope of delegation, the level of autonomy that is acceptable given the stakes, the checkpoints to set before and after the agent acts, and the accountability that always stays with the CEO. The angle is decision-making: when an agent speeds up judgment, when it weakens it, and how to tell the difference.
These pieces start from real situations in small, midsize and mid-market companies, not from vendor promises. The goal is simple: to let a leadership team hand a mission to an AI agent the way it would hand responsibility to a senior manager, with the same rigor on scope, limits and accountability.
Delegate to an AI agent as you would to an executive
The delegation charter in seven questions
August 18, 2026
Seven questions a leadership team must ask before handing a mission to an AI agent. By Peter Guillon, who runs AI agents in production.
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