Markets & Use Cases
Every sector faces the same threat.
Money, data, access, authority. The exposure is the same. An instruction that looks legitimate - but has no verified human authority behind it. Consequential action executes. Damage ensues.
GoFirm applies the same control regardless of sector, technology stack, or organisation size.
Securing the Agentic Workforce
AI agents are being deployed at pace with broad permissions, persistent credentials, and limited runtime governance. An agent authorised to manage files deletes a production database. An agent authorised to send correspondence initiates a regulatory filing without explicit sanction. An agent executing trades does so without confirmed portfolio manager approval.
According to a 2025 CISO survey, 47% of respondents had observed AI agents exhibiting unintended or unauthorised behaviour. In each case, identity confirmed what the agent was. It did not confirm whether the specific, high consequence action was sanctioned by responsible human(s).
GoFirm's answer
A single SDK call at the execution boundary. When the agent reaches a configured threshold, goFirm.confirm() fires. The designated authority receives the request with full context. They confirm or decline. The agent cannot proceed without the signed receipt. Routine agent actions below threshold pass through without interruption.
Use cases
- AI agent trade and investment execution above defined thresholds
- Autonomous workflow actions at configured risk levels
- Agent-initiated data extraction and bulk operations
- Agent-initiated external communications and filings
- Agent permission grants and scope expansions
Financial Services
In 2024, a widely reported incident involved a finance employee authorising a large transfer following a video call later found to consist entirely of AI-generated participants. No malware was used. The instruction appeared legitimate throughout.
A 2025 UK retail incident, widely covered in financial and security press, involved social engineering of internal staff leading to credential access and significant operational disruption. Again, the entry point was not a technical exploit. It was an unverified instruction treated as legitimate.
GoFirm's answer
Every payment above your configured threshold requires a designated authority to confirm on their registered device before funds move. A convincing deepfake, a phishing email, or a compromised session does not produce that confirmation. The action does not proceed without it.
Use cases
- Wire transfers and bulk payments above threshold
- Beneficiary changes and new payee additions
- FX transactions and treasury operations
- Payroll modifications
- Interbank and correspondent banking instructions
Professional Services: Legal, Consulting, Advisory
A binding instruction sent under a partner’s name. An escrow release initiated by someone impersonating a principal. A data room accessed without explicit authorisation. In professional services, authority is frequently assumed rather than verified. When disputes arise, the audit trail is a sequence of emails.
GoFirm's answer
Designated authority confirmation on binding instructions, escrow releases, and data room access above your threshold. The signed record proves which authority confirmed which action at which moment.
Use cases
- Escrow releases and client fund movements
- Execution of binding instructions
- Data room access authorisation
- Regulatory filing confirmation
- External commitment and counterparty communications
Private Equity and Asset Management
Investment decisions executed by agents or analysts without explicit senior confirmation. Capital calls authorised through informal channels. AI agents executing trades without portfolio manager sign-off. Compliance documentation that records what the policy says, not what actually happened.
GoFirm's answer
A signed record that the designated authority confirmed this specific action before it executed. Not a policy statement. A verifiable decision record.
Use cases
- Investment decisions above defined thresholds
- Capital calls and fund distributions
- Counterparty instruction execution
- AI agent trade authorisation
- Regulatory and compliance filing confirmation
Technology and SaaS
The 2024 CrowdStrike incident, widely reported as the largest IT outage in history affecting an estimated 8.5 million Windows systems, was not an attack. It was an unchecked software update. An AI coding agent that exceeds its scope and modifies a production database. A privilege escalation that expands a minor breach into a serious one.
GoFirm's answer
Designated authority confirmation on production deployments, infrastructure modifications, privilege escalations, and destructive actions. The SDK integrates at the execution boundary. The confirmation fires regardless of how the request originated.
Use cases
- Production deployments and infrastructure changes
- Privilege escalation and admin account creation
- AI agent and autonomous workflow authorisation
- Database and environment deletion actions
- Cloud IAM and configuration changes
Critical Infrastructure: Energy, Utilities, Defence
Security research has documented threat actor campaigns involving extended dwell time inside critical infrastructure networks, using valid credentials and legitimate protocols throughout, before reaching a consequential execution point. The barrier in these cases was not network entry. It was the absence of a human authority requirement at the execution boundary.
GoFirm's answer
GoFirm Deep Guard places a confirmation gate at the infrastructure control plane. Extended dwell time inside a network does not bypass the requirement for a designated authority to confirm before a sensitive action executes.
Use cases
- SCADA and operational technology configuration changes
- Crown-jewel database and infrastructure access
- Secrets vault and identity provider access
- Cloud IAM changes in critical environments
- Authorisation of automated operational commands
Healthcare
AI-assisted clinical and operational systems producing outputs that staff act on without a verified authority chain. Bulk patient data accessed without explicit senior confirmation. Ransomware executing because no confirmation gate existed at the critical system layer.
GoFirm's answer
Designated authority confirmation on high-consequence clinical and operational actions. Every bulk data access, system configuration change, or AI-assisted action above your configured threshold requires explicit human confirmation before it executes.
Use cases
- Bulk patient data access and extraction
- AI-assisted clinical decision confirmation
- System configuration and access changes
- Third-party system integration authorisation
- Regulatory and compliance reporting