Govern the Unpredictable.
Patent-Protected
AI Execution.
Stop irreversible AI actions before they happen with the industry's first deterministic Friction Gate. Built for Chief Risk Officers and AI Compliance Leads at enterprise financial institutions.
Designed for regulated financial institutions
The Friction Gate
Compliance enforced at the code level — not policies that AI can reason around, but cryptographic barriers that physically prevent non-compliant execution.
// Governance Engine — Layer 0 interceptionintercept(action: AIAction): Promise<ExecutionDecision> { const intent = await this.analyzeIntent(action); return this.frictionGate.evaluate(intent);}The Friction Gate architecture is covered under a U.S. Patent Pending application. No other AI governance vendor can legally replicate this deterministic execution-layer approach.
The Architecture of Certainty
Six capabilities that eliminate the compliance gap between what your AI is authorized to do and what it actually executes.
Deterministic Enforcement
Zero probabilistic gaps
Unlike ML-based guardrails that can be argued around or drift over time, the Resonance Engine uses formal verification logic. An action is compliant or it isn't — there is no maybe.
Zero-Latency Gate
Inline, not sidecar
The Friction Gate operates as an in-process execution layer — not an external API call. Compliance verification adds sub-millisecond overhead with no network dependency.
Immutable Audit Chain
Examiner-ready by default
Every gate decision — permitted or blocked — is cryptographically hashed and appended to a tamper-evident log. Your audit trail is complete before the examiner asks for it.
Policy-as-Code Engine
Regulation expressed in logic
SOX, MiFID II, DORA, and custom frameworks are compiled into executable rule trees. Your compliance team writes policy — the engine enforces it without interpretation.
LLM-Agnostic Runtime
Protect any model stack
The Resonance Engine wraps your entire AI execution surface — GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, open-source models, and internal fine-tunes. One gate, every model, one compliance posture.
Injection-Proof Architecture
Prompt attacks cannot bypass the gate
Adversarial prompt injection cannot override the Friction Gate because compliance enforcement lives below the model's output layer — at the execution runtime, not the instruction level.
Built for Enterprise Infrastructure
The Resonance Engine integrates at the execution layer of your existing AI stack — no rearchitecture required. One SDK, every model, every deployment model.
Execution Stack — Where Resonance Sits
The Friction Gate intercepts execution between the orchestration layer and the runtime — below the model, before the action.
Deployment Models
On-Premises
Deploy entirely within your data center. Zero egress. Air-gapped options available for classified or restricted environments.
Private VPC
Single-tenant deployment in your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment. Your keys, your VPC, your compliance boundary.
Embedded SDK
Drop the Resonance Engine SDK directly into your existing AI pipeline. Language-native for TypeScript, Python, and Java.
LLM Compatibility — Universal Execution Layer
OpenAI GPT-4o
Foundation Model
Anthropic Claude
Foundation Model
Google Gemini
Foundation Model
Meta Llama 3
Open Source
Azure OpenAI
Cloud Hosted
Custom Fine-Tunes
Internal Models
What the Gate Stops
Real attack vectors and compliance failures the Friction Gate prevents — before they reach execution.
Unauthorized Trade Execution
An AI model, given broad tool permissions, attempts to execute a $4M equity trade outside authorized hours to capture a perceived arbitrage opportunity.
SOX § 302 — Unauthorized execution window. Trade rejected pre-settlement.
PII Exfiltration via Prompt Injection
An adversarial document instructs an AI assistant to summarize and externally transmit customer account numbers to an attacker-controlled endpoint.
GDPR Art.32 — Unauthorized PII transmission to external endpoint halted.
Regulatory Report Suppression
An AI workflow agent attempts to delete a flagged regulatory filing before automated submission, a vector exploited by a compromised internal process.
DORA Art.9 — Deletion of compliance records is permanently prohibited.
Model Drift — Policy Misalignment
A fine-tuned LLM begins producing outputs that technically satisfy prompt constraints but systematically circumvent position limit rules via aggregation.
MiFID II — Aggregate position thresholds exceeded. CRO notified in real-time.
Every scenario above is stopped at execution — not flagged in a report three days later.
The Friction Gate is the difference between governance and actual prevention.
Security Built for Regulated Markets
Ethic Vault is designed to satisfy the most demanding regulatory and infosec requirements in financial services — not as an afterthought, but as the foundation.
SOC 2 Type II
AICPA
ISO 27001
ISO/IEC
GDPR
EU Regulation
DORA
EU 2022/2554
Data Protection
- AES-256 encryption at rest
- TLS 1.3 in transit, enforced
- Customer data never used for training
- Tenant-isolated key management (BYOK)
Access & Identity
- Zero-trust network architecture
- SSO with SAML 2.0 / OIDC
- Hardware MFA enforcement
- Role-based access with least-privilege
Resilience & Availability
- 99.99% SLA with financial penalty clauses
- Multi-region active-active deployment
- Automated failover under 30 seconds
- Annual penetration testing (Big 4 firms)
Audit & Transparency
- Immutable cryptographic audit log
- Full SOC 2 reports on request
- Sub-processor list publicly maintained
- Examiner-ready export in 24 hours
No data leaves your environment without your explicit authorization.
The Friction Gate operates entirely within your deployment boundary. Audit logs, policy rules, and execution records are stored in your infrastructure — Ethic Vault never has custody of your data.
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