Hands off. Audit-tight.
Lean defense + gov teams can't afford a full-time cloud-governance staffer. Zero-touch management lets PolicyCortex run the operational loop autonomously — detect, propose, gate (or auto-apply within policy), execute, verify, log. Humans review the audit trail, not the inbox.
- CAP-01Policy-scoped autonomySpecific action classes graduate to auto; others stay gated.
- CAP-02Rollback contract every actionRefuses to execute without defined rollback path.
- CAP-03Tamper-evident audit trailEvery action signed + content-hashed; 7y retention.
- CAP-04Operator digest, not pagerDaily/weekly summaries instead of per-action alerts.
- CAP-05Out-of-policy escalationActions outside autonomous scope route to operator queue.
- CAP-06Production gate heldCritical resources stay gated even when class is autonomous.
- 01DefineAction classes scoped: which fixes can autonomously run.
- 02GraduateStart in gated. Promote action classes to autonomous as confidence builds.
- 03AuditOperator reviews daily digest. Tamper-evident trail handles auditors.
- DOE National LabActive consultant
- MITRECybersecurity engineering
- USAAFinancial-grade ops
- FrontierProduction cloud architecture
Founder runs every engagement personally. 4 U.S. patent applications filed.
Isn't autonomous cloud operations risky?
It is — which is why the rollback contract is type-checked at compile, not enforced by convention. The platform refuses to execute any action without a defined rollback. The risk profile is lower than human-operated remediation because the safety guarantee is mechanical, not procedural.
Which action classes are safe to autonomize first?
Reversible, low-blast-radius actions: tightening overly-permissive security groups, enabling encryption-at-rest, rotating non-critical credentials. Production-tier database changes, IAM grants, and network topology edits stay gated by default.
What does the operator actually do?
Reviews the daily digest, approves out-of-policy escalations (typically 1-5 per week per cloud account), watches the trust score for action classes that should graduate or demote.
Compliance audit acceptance?
Yes — autonomous operation backed by tamper-evident audit trail satisfies CMMC + FedRAMP requirements. The control evidence is stronger because the trail captures every action with content-hashed pre/post state.
Lean team. Tight audit trail.
$15,000 flat for the 30-day pilot. Start gated. Graduate classes to autonomous. Operate cloud governance without operating it.