From AI Strategy
to Governed Agent Execution.
to Governed Agent Execution.
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From Shadow AI to a Governed Agentic SDLC
Across most organizations, AI usage today is ungoverned, unstructured and unbudgeted - and that doesn't scale, it accumulates risk. Tools get adopted team by team, without a mandate, an owner, or visibility. Unverified AI output flows straight into products and processes. Prompts and skills stay locked in individuals instead of becoming reusable knowledge. Spend is discovered only after the fact.
HICO VAULT FORGE closes this gap. It is the governed agentic SDLC layer of HICO VAULT - and the platform for the Power of Three, bringing business strategy, AI execution and data governance into one gated system instead of three disconnected efforts. AI initiatives are derived from company strategy and measured against KPIs, every project and workflow has an accountable owner, and every artefact an AI agent produces is gated, logged and traceable by design, not as an afterthought. The gap is not a model problem. It is a governance, structure and cost-control problem - and it's exactly what FORGE is built to solve.
Advantages at a Glance
AI initiatives and KPIs translate directly into governed projects and workflows - every agent run stays attributable back to company strategy.
Built-in policies, gates and approvals evidence EU AI Act, GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance automatically, with a full audit trail per artefact.
SAP, Microsoft, GCP, AWS and every service, environment, API and entitlement are registered with clear ownership - no uncontrolled integrations.
Agents run locally or remotely per task, routed by cost and data sensitivity, with access and human-in-the-loop approval gated by role, function and entitlement.
FORGE Apps are thick clients, centrally versioned and server-managed, but run with local context and local execution — giving teams performance and proximity to their own data without losing central control over what's deployed and where.
Value by Layer - What Each Stakeholder Gains
The HICO FORGE Server is the web control plane with registry, policy and orchestration in one place:
It connects to your AI guardrails, skill library, ticketing system and knowledge bases (Confluence, HICO VAULT) - and governs the full path from:
Company Strategy → KPI System → Governed Project Creation → Gated Workflow Creation, executed through distributed, server-managed FORGE apps
and role- and function-based agents.
Why HICO VAULT FORGE?
We kept hearing the same thing from IT and compliance leaders already using AI chat and knowledge tools: once teams start building with AI - not just chatting with it - governance has to move from policy documents into the system itself. Every project, every workflow, every agent run needs an owner, a gate, and a trail, or "ungoverned AI" simply becomes "ungoverned software."
HICO VAULT FORGE is that governed layer. It doesn't slow AI-assisted delivery down - it makes strategy, cost and compliance a structural part of how projects and workflows get created in the first place, so scaling agentic development doesn't mean scaling risk.
Geneve Schwan, CPO, HICO Group AG
Alles, was IT, Compliance und Führungskräfte wissen müssen
The System Registry covers core enterprise systems such as SAP, Microsoft and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), together with your automation, data and reporting landscape, plus connected services like AI guardrails, your skill library, ticketing systems and knowledge bases such as Confluence and HICO VAULT.
