Where are we exposed?
Compare risk and control without reading every agent definition.
The management layer for operational AI
Stay in control when agents do the work.
CARE is how management runs operational AI across the organization: what exists, where control is weak, how each agent is meant to work, what needs attention, and who must act.
Inventory and control. Operating model. Management action. Compliance support. One layer above your builders and runtimes.
The control panel
Two minutes a week to know whether you're gaining or losing control.
Once the relevant agents are registered and their records are maintained, CARE's control view is a short executive review: where exposure and control stand, whether the estate is improving, and who needs to act.
Who needs to act?
Separate management, technical and implementation issues.
Are we improving?
Review the direction of control across teams, not just individual agents.
*The two-minute review applies once the relevant agents have been registered and their records are maintained. It is a management review, not a claim that registration takes two minutes.
Inventory and control
See where control is missing
CARE is the inventory and control system for operational AI. It makes elevated risk and insufficient oversight visible by shape, so management can intervene before AI failures become business failures.
Compare exposure and control per process or agent. See which parts of the estate are risky, weakly controlled, or both.
Operating model
Define the working arrangement
CARE is the operating model system for agents at work. It records what an agent is there to do, what it may decide, when it must escalate, who owns those escalations, and what remains off limits - so the arrangement is legible to management and implementers alike.
CARE defines the working arrangement around an agent: role, authority, limits and escalation.
Management action
Turn findings into decisions and actions
CARE is a management action system. It does not stop at scoring: it surfaces strengths, weaknesses, threats and priority actions so owners know what to change, what to review first, and what should be monitored.
CARE converts findings into concrete follow-up actions for the estate.
Across any stack
Builders create agents. CARE manages how the organization puts them to work.
Keep SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, custom agents and whatever comes next. CARE sits above them as the shared management layer - without asking you to migrate platforms.
Your agents may be autonomous. Accountability for their work is not.
One management layer. Any agent stack.
See how CARE fits
CARE does not replace your builders or runtimes. It makes inventory, operating model, action and review available across the estate.
From one agent to an estate
Keep your platform. Manage above it.
Your existing tools build and run agents. CARE is the management layer above them: how agents fit the organization, and how management sees and acts on the result.
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01 / REGISTER
Bring an agent into the estate
Register an existing or planned agent. Capable agents can contribute information about themselves through CARE's published integration interface.
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02 / DEFINE
Establish the operating model
Record its job, process, owners, systems, permissions, musts and nevers, and intervention arrangements.
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03 / EXPOSE
Make gaps and priorities visible
CARE surfaces findings, risks, recommendations and unresolved decisions rather than treating documentation as completion.
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04 / MANAGE
Review and improve the estate
Track agents and outstanding actions across owners, teams and departments as circumstances change.
Your builder creates the agent.
Models, prompts, workflows, integrations and execution.
CARE is the management layer.
Inventory, operating model, accountability, findings, action and review - across the estate.
Compliance support
What makes you more in control also makes you better prepared.
CARE is a compliance-support system: operating records, responsibilities and recurring review in one place. The same management layer can support work toward ISO/IEC 42001 and applicable EU AI Act obligations.
| What CARE helps establish | ISO/IEC 42001 alignment | EU AI Act relevance |
China AI Regulations
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| Inventory and purpose of operational AI agents | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Named ownership and accountability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Documented roles, processes and operating context | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Risk assessments and control findings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Human oversight, intervention and escalation arrangements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Documentation of lifecycle changes and decisions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review and continuous improvement evidence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Indicates that this CARE capability is relevant to supporting the stated framework; it does not certify conformity or establish that every AI system has the same legal obligations. Applicability depends on the organization's role, systems and use cases. Certification and legal compliance also depend on organizational measures beyond software.
The return beyond compliance
Control also reveals opportunity.
Once the agent estate is visible, management can see more than exposure. The same shared inventory surfaces where to improve operations, reduce dependency and reuse what already works - turning an investment in AI management into additional business value.
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Business process optimization and automation / BPO potential
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Agent capabilities that can be reused across teams
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Duplicated agent roles and overlapping initiatives
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Unnecessary dependency on a single technology vendor
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Processes and systems blocking useful automation
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Management weaknesses that need attention before scaling
These are potential opportunities surfaced by shared agent information, not automatic cost savings or guaranteed optimization outcomes.
Self-registration
Let agents help describe themselves. Keep humans accountable.
A capable agent often already knows its instructions, tools, intended job and limits. CARE can use that knowledge to start the operating-model record and expose gaps - so management begins with a reviewable arrangement, not an empty questionnaire.
Agent contributes
What it knows
Its purpose, tools, instructions, activities and reported limitations.
CARE exposes
What management still needs
Ownership, escalation links, control gaps, risks, contradictions and decisions.
People decide
What is accepted
Approve or amend the record, assign accountability and resolve findings.
CARE has owners, too.
Built by people you can actually reach.
CARE asks organizations to make responsibility visible. We hold ourselves to the same standard. These are the people responsible for the product, method and customer relationship.
Michael Küsters
CEO, Founder, Head of Product
Owns CARE product direction and method.
- Founder of Intelygence; Head of Product for CARE
- Organizational change and agile coaching across enterprises
- Author on organizational design and agile practice
Kangbo Wan
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Co-Founder
Owns CARE customer relationships and go-to-market.
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No anonymous software company. No responsibility hidden behind a contact form.
Start before the gaps become expensive.
Start with one agent. Grow into estate management.
Begin free with a real agent in the management layer. Upgrade when more agents, teams and lifecycle decisions need a shared system of inventory, control, action and review.
Common questions
What CARE is - and is not.
Is CARE an agent checker or a monitoring tool?
No. CARE is the management layer for operational AI: inventory and control, operating model, management action and compliance support. It is not a checklist product bolted onto a single agent.
Does CARE replace our agent builders or runtimes?
No. Keep the tools that create and run your agents. CARE is the platform-independent management layer for how they fit the organization.
Does CARE monitor every action an agent takes?
No. CARE is not runtime observability, SIEM or an execution trace collector. It manages the declared working arrangement, findings, evidence and organizational control.
Does using CARE automatically make us ISO-certified or legally compliant?
No software can do that on its own. CARE helps establish and maintain the operational records, responsibilities and review evidence needed to support management systems and applicable obligations. Your organization remains responsible for implementing them.
Can an existing agent be registered?
Yes. Start with an agent already doing work, establish its arrangement in the management layer, and see what is unresolved. You do not need to rebuild it.
What does "two minutes a week" mean?
It describes a brief executive review of already-registered, maintained agents: where exposure and control stand, how that is changing, and who needs to act. It is not the time needed to onboard the estate or resolve findings.
Put operational AI under management
See the estate. See the gaps. See what still needs a decision.
Start with one real agent. Build the management picture of your estate as you go. Then spend attention where inventory, control, action and review demand it.
Start free · No agent platform migration required