Geordie blocks risky actions. OpenBox proves it happened. Here is the honest difference — and why your GRC stack needs cryptographic evidence, not just alerts and logs.
Same space, different jobs
An honest look at what each tool is built for — and where each one stops.
RUNTIME GOVERNANCE
Enforces policy before agent actions take effect. Identity, authorization, and behavioral rules checked at execution, not after.
Cryptographic attestation of every tool call, prompt, input, and output. Immutable and regulator-ready.
Dynamic risk scoring adapts controls in real time based on observed agent behavior, not static rules.
Human-in-the-loop approvals for high-stakes decisions. Persists across process restarts with full audit evidence.
Single SDK, no architectural changes. Works with LangChain, Temporal, Mastra, n8n, AWS, and Cursor out of the box.
DISCOVERY & GUARDRAILS
Scans code repos, cloud APIs, and endpoints to find agents in your environment.
Pulls configuration and toolsets from discovered agents, with continuous behavioral risk scoring.
Endpoint CLI via MDM detects coding agents on developer devices, including Cursor, Copilot, and VS Code.
In-line guardrails (Beam) block unsafe actions in real time, including data exfiltration.
No cryptographic attestation. Blocks and alerts route to Splunk, Jira, or Teams as webhooks — not as signed, tamper-evident evidence auditors and regulators require.
What auditors actually require
Regulators do not ask for an inventory. They ask for verifiable evidence that controls were enforced.
EU AI Act · Art. 12
Immutable audit trails
High-risk AI systems must log events automatically for traceability. Logs must be cryptographically verifiable and available on request. Alerts routed to a webhook or dashboard do not satisfy this.
EU AI Act · Art. 9
Risk management system
Requires continuous identification, analysis, and mitigation of risks across the AI system lifecycle — not just a point-in-time scan at deployment.
EU AI Act · Art. 14
Human oversight
Humans must be able to monitor, intervene, override, or halt AI systems during operation. Technical measures must enable this. Passive monitoring is insufficient.
US AI Framework · SOC 2
Governance evidence
Auditors require verifiable evidence that controls were enforced, not that agents were catalogued. No GRC audit accepts an inventory in place of a control.
