Canal is the sovereign AI governance gateway. Every AI decision your institution makes passes through Canal — evaluated, sealed, and made permanently defensible before it executes.
What Canal Is
Just as SWIFT governs the movement of money between institutions, Canal governs the execution of AI decisions within them. Every decision passes through Canal's four-gate evaluation before it reaches execution.
Canal is not a one-time assessment tool. It is not a compliance report generator. It is permanent, sovereign governance infrastructure — running continuously, on every decision, for the lifetime of your institution's AI operations.
The output of every Canal evaluation is a Decision Passport — a cryptographically sealed record that proves your governance was in place at the moment of decision. Not after. Not in retrospect. At the moment.
Under DORA and the EU AI Act, institutions must prove their governance posture can withstand article-level regulatory inspection. Canal makes that proof automatic, continuous, and cryptographically unimpeachable.
How It Works
Every AI decision submitted to Canal passes through four sequential evaluation gates. All four must clear before a Decision Passport is issued.
Confirms the decision is legally permissible under all applicable jurisdictions. Multi-hop jurisdiction chain analysis detects cross-border conflicts before execution.
Evaluates the decision against every applicable regulatory framework simultaneously. Detects cross-framework conflicts where complying with one regulation may violate another.
Enforces time-bound governance. Decisions are evaluated against regulatory frameworks that are current at the moment of execution — not at the moment the envelope was created.
Claude-powered qualitative analysis of grey-area outcomes. Where deterministic evaluation produces conditional or borderline results, the Intelligence layer provides board-level narrative reasoning.
Platform Capabilities
Every cleared decision receives a cryptographically sealed Decision Passport — a SHA-256 signed record that constitutes legal proof of governed decision-making at the moment of execution.
Continuous monitoring of your governance posture. Canal detects when your decision patterns are drifting from their governed envelope — before regulators do.
Multi-hop jurisdiction chain analysis maps every decision against all applicable legal territories simultaneously. Cross-border conflicts are identified and flagged before execution.
Governance envelopes have validity windows. Canal enforces these windows automatically — proactively alerting your team to expiring authorisations and regulatory phase changes.
A complete, searchable, immutable registry of every Decision Passport ever issued. Full audit history — accessible to your compliance team, your regulators, and your board.
Canal integrates directly into your existing systems via a clean REST API. Every AI decision your systems make can be governed without changing your operational architecture.
Regulatory Coverage
Canal evaluates every decision against all applicable frameworks simultaneously. No cherry-picking. No gaps.
Full ICT risk management evaluation including third-party dependencies and operational continuity obligations.
Article-level evaluation across all risk classifications. High-risk AI systems evaluated against all mandatory requirements.
Data processing legitimacy, automated decision-making obligations, and cross-border transfer restrictions evaluated per decision.
Critical infrastructure and essential services obligations. Incident reporting and supply chain security requirements.
Information security control requirements mapped against every governed decision in your AI pipeline.
Risk-weighted asset calculations and capital adequacy requirements evaluated for AI-driven financial decisions.
Consumer outcome requirements and fair value assessments evaluated for every AI-driven customer-facing decision.
New regulatory frameworks added continuously. Custom framework packs available for Institutional tier clients.
Pricing
Canal is priced on governance volume — the number of AI decisions governed. Every decision costs a fraction of a cent to govern. The regulatory fine for an ungoverned decision can be millions.
Need per-decision pricing? Canal Gateway API offers €0.10–€0.50 per decision for variable volume clients.
Passport Trail
The Passport Trail is the complete audit history of your institution's governed AI decisions. Every Decision Passport ever issued — searchable, filterable, and available to your regulators on demand.
When a regulator asks "show me your governance record for every credit decision made in Q3" — you hand them a link, not a folder of PDFs.
Public Verification
Every Decision Passport issued by Canal is permanently registered in a public verification registry. Any counterparty, regulator, or auditor can verify the authenticity and status of any passport — instantly, without contacting you.
Who Uses Verification
Deploy Canal
Request access to Canal. Our team will map your institution's AI decision landscape and configure your governance envelopes within 14 days.