AI agents need control infrastructure
Corentis Shield is an AI checkpoint for regulated workflows: policy-bound, reviewable and evidence-generating before sensitive actions move forward.
Why now
Corentis sits across regulated-service pressure, AI/agentic AI adoption momentum and a growing need for operational AI control.
FCA complaints redress
Total redress in FCA complaints data was £283m in 2025 H1.
This was a 20.0% increase on the 2024 H2 figure of £236m.
Financial Conduct Authority, 23 October 2025
McKinsey global AI survey
23% of respondents said their organisations are scaling an agentic AI system somewhere in the enterprise.
A further 39% said they had begun experimenting with AI agents.
McKinsey & Company, 5 November 2025
IBM / Ponemon
63% of breached organisations lacked AI governance policies to manage AI or prevent shadow AI.
IBM also reported that 97% of organisations with an AI-related security incident lacked proper AI access controls.
IBM / Ponemon Institute, 2025
The wedge
Corentis starts with financial-services complaints and vulnerable-customer workflows: narrow enough to pilot, concrete enough to evidence, and sensitive enough to prove why checkpointing matters.
The aim is to prove the checkpoint/control pattern in a high-consequence workflow, then expand into adjacent regulated workflows where AI outputs affect customers, records, decisions or operational actions.
The platform logic
Why this is not just another AI tool
Corentis is not a chatbot, model wrapper or dashboard after the event. The product sits at the action boundary where AI output becomes operational behaviour.
The company is early-stage and developing pilot-ready prototypes. The current aim is to prove focused design partner workflows before broader commercial rollout.
What Corentis is seeking
Strategic funding routes Corentis is preparing for
These are preparation routes, not awarded or accepted funding. Each route is subject to eligibility, scope and live application requirements.
Sovereign AI
Strategic investor/funding approach for UK AI control infrastructure.
Frontier AI Discovery
ControlBench R&D route around runtime assurance and benchmark testing.
AI Assurance Innovation Fund
Assurance route to monitor and prepare for when the live page opens.
FCA Supercharged Sandbox
Financial-services pilot route for complaints and vulnerable-customer workflows.
Vision & Funding Readiness Overview PDF
A public-facing overview of the Corentis vision, the timing, the first wedge and the validation path for serious funding conversations.
Best for funders and investors who want to understand why now is the moment to build AI checkpoint infrastructure.
ControlBench Innovation Brief PDF
An innovation-led brief explaining how Corentis can benchmark the difference between uncheckpointed and checkpointed AI-assisted workflows.
Best for readers interested in the technical validation path behind Corentis Shield.
UK Strategic AI Infrastructure Memo PDF
A bold but careful memo on the UK opportunity for AI control infrastructure between agents and sensitive regulated actions.
Best for strategic funders and partners considering the next layer of responsible AI infrastructure.