Market Signal
4 min readEnterprise AI Is Moving Authority Into Runtime
Enterprise AI systems increasingly act through delegated authority after approval, creating a governance problem at the moment execution occurs.
Market Signals
Open ResourceArticles
A long-form Runtime Governance article about the operating gap between granted permission and legitimate execution.
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Article
Status
Knowledge-base metadata record
Published
2026-07-25
Reading Time
6 min read
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Permission management answers who or what was allowed to act under a known authority state.
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Execution legitimacy asks whether that authority remained valid when the action occurred.
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Runtime Governance closes the gap by validating current authority and producing governance evidence.
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