Use Cases
BeaconGuard is for workflows where AI can do more than generate content. The relevant boundary appears when an agent can create a consequential side effect in an enterprise system or external interaction.
Priority workflow patterns
Healthcare operational actions
Patient communication, scheduling, operational record updates, and bounded discharge operations where the exact side effect must be authorized without replacing clinical or EHR authority.
Financial workflow actions
AML/KYC, fraud, dispute, case-state, customer communication, and other customer-impacting actions where broad system access should not equal blanket action authority.
Regulated internal automation
Agents changing production systems, configurations, records, or external communications under exact-action, one-time, fail-closed authorization.
Use-case selection test
A strong BeaconGuard use case has four properties:
- An AI or agent can propose or initiate a concrete side effect.
- The side effect is consequential enough that broad access alone is insufficient.
- Customer policy, approval, identity, delegation, or context should determine whether it may occur.
- The organization benefits from reconstructing what action was authorized under which policy authority.
Not the target problem
BeaconGuard is not primarily a prompt filter, chatbot guardrail, model-evaluation platform, AI inventory, or general GRC repository. Those products may remain complementary. BeaconGuard's focus is the authorization boundary immediately before consequential execution.