Policy Grounding
Connect decisions to the organizational policies that govern them.
POLICY-GROUNDED AI GOVERNANCE
Govern AI before it acts.
Northstar Govern is building a control layer that helps organizations evaluate consequential AI-assisted actions against policy, identify required human oversight, and preserve evidence of how decisions were made.
Working prototype available · Fictional scenarios and sample policies
NORTHSTAR GOVERN PROTOTYPE
PROPOSED ACTIONAI system recommends candidate rejection
POLICYHR-001 · HR-002
RISKHIGH
AUTHORITYHuman review required
EVIDENCEAdditional support needed
ESCALATE →
✓ Decision record prepared for review
THE GOVERNANCE GAP
AI is moving from answers to actions.
Governance needs to move with it.
Organizations are introducing AI into workflows involving employees, customers, sensitive data, and business operations. Written policies alone do not always make clear what an AI system should be permitted to do in a specific situation. Northstar is being built to bridge that gap.
HOW NORTHSTAR WORKS
From proposed action to accountable decision.
01AI proposes an action
→
A consequential system or workflow produces a proposed decision.
02Northstar evaluates
→
Relevant policy, risk, authority, evidence, and oversight requirements are surfaced.
03Governance outcome
Allow, escalate, or deny—with accountable human review when required.
Human Oversight
Surface consequential decisions requiring accountable human review.
Explainability
Show what policy and supplied evidence contributed to a governance recommendation.
Auditability
Preserve structured evidence that can help reconstruct how a decision was reached.
WORKING PROTOTYPE
Starting with consequential HR decisions.
Our current prototype explores how policy-grounded AI governance can work in practice. Evaluate fictional workplace scenarios against sample organizational policies and see how Northstar surfaces relevant policy, decision risk, human review requirements, missing evidence, recommended next steps, and a decision record.
Launch Interactive PrototypeDemonstration only. Uses fictional scenarios and sample policies. Not legal advice.
01
Choose a scenarioStart with a fictional consequential workplace decision.
02
Evaluate against policyNorthstar grounds the analysis in sample organizational policy.
03
Review the governance recordSee risk, oversight requirements, missing evidence, and next steps.
THE VISION
Governance infrastructure for increasingly autonomous AI.
Northstar's long-term goal is to help organizations translate policies and delegated authority into controls that can determine what autonomous systems are authorized to do, when humans must intervene, and what evidence should be preserved.
TODAY
Policy → AI-assisted decision → Human review → Evidence
DIRECTION
AI Agent → Proposed Action → Policy + Authority → Allow / Escalate / Deny → Verifiable Evidence
DESIGN PARTNERS
Help shape the governance layer for enterprise AI.
We're speaking with leaders in AI governance, risk and compliance, security, human resources, legal, enterprise AI, and internal audit. If your organization is working through how AI systems should be approved, controlled, reviewed, or audited, we'd like to learn how you handle it today.
Talk to Northstarhello@northstargovern.com