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    iTmethods and Summit58 partner to put agentic business processes under governance on FINOS-backed Fluxnova

    Summit58 designs the process. Reign Ops operates the platform. Reign Assurance is being designed to evidence what the agents did.

    TORONTO and SCOTTSDALE, AZ, August 27, 2026· iTmethods and Summit58 today announced a partnership to put agentic business processes under governance on Fluxnova, the workflow engine backed by the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS).

    Fluxnova 3.0 shipped MCP Start Event integration and agentic subprocesses as optional plugins. Agents can invoke processes and determine their own steps at runtime from prompts and business context. These capabilities are generally available today, not roadmap. An agentic subprocess does not declare its steps in advance. The engine will faithfully record that it ran. It has no opinion on whether the agent should have done what it did.

    That gap is what the partnership is organised around. The process is designed by people who understand it, the platform is operated by people who are accountable for it, and the evidence is prepared by a layer that sits outside the execution path.

    Three layers, clear ownership, no overlap

    Summit58 designs and engineers the process, including the agent steps inside it: process analysis and BPMN modeling, decision logic and DMN, agentic process and subprocess design, systems and data integration, custom software development, legacy modernization, Camunda 7 and Fluxnova migration, engine engineering and bug fixes, performance work, process and KPI monitoring, training and operational handoff. Where fixes are accepted upstream, the wider Fluxnova community can use them.

    Reign Opsoperates the platform: environment build and deployment, hosting inside the customer’s trust boundary, security and identity, availability, backup and recovery, upgrade and patch execution, platform monitoring and service management. Support scope and service levels are documented per engagement. Reign Ops is available today.

    Reign Assurance is being designed to prepare the evidence: checks that run against work as it moves rather than being assembled afterwards, with three outcomes, passed, did not pass, and needs a person. Reign prepares the evidence. The people who own the risk decide. iTmethods does not issue an audit opinion or certification. Reign Assurance is in co-design development. It is not available, not sold, and not shipping.

    Customers raise issues through a single route. The two firms have agreed that principle and are documenting the triage, handoffs and service commitments behind it.

    Why Fluxnova, and why now

    Fluxnova is an open-source project backed by FINOS and the Linux Foundation, which puts its roadmap and its license outside the control of any single vendor, including iTmethods. For a regulated organization deciding where to put a decade of process logic, that governance is part of the product. The engine runs on the infrastructure the organization already has, inside its own trust boundary, rather than requiring the work to move to somebody else’s estate.

    FINOS has been explicit about the direction. “In the highly regulated financial services industry, compliance must be automated, and infrastructures must be observable,” said Olivier Poupeney, Field CTO at FINOS, when iTmethods joined the Linux Foundation, FINOS and the Agentic AI Foundation in July 2026. “That’s why we are collectively building open-source standards and tools—including the AI Governance Framework (AIGF), Common Cloud Controls (CCC), Fluxnova, and CALM, to provide the Governance-as-Code pipeline necessary to scale AI responsibly.”

    What the platform looks like at production scale

    Fidelity Investments and Deutsche Bank run Fluxnova independently, with their own internal teams. They are not iTmethods customers and have not used Managed Fluxnova on Reign Ops. Their public remarks show what the underlying platform looks like at the scale of the two largest known Fluxnova deployments.

    “Fidelity runs 120 live business processes and 100M+ process instances a year on Fluxnova, tested to 1.5M instances an hour.”
    — Craig Kitching, Head of Digital Automation Platform, Fidelity Investments. OSFF Toronto 2026.
    “Fidelity's first Fluxnova process went from inception to production in under 30 days — saving an estimated 50,000 hours of manual effort.”
    — Craig Kitching, Head of Digital Automation Platform, Fidelity Investments. OSFF Toronto 2026.
    “Delivering this internally piecemeal on a per-application basis is really not the way to go... we decided to take Fluxnova as the core product and deliver it into the organization via a shared service.”
    — Miguel Capitao, Head of Technical Architecture, Deutsche Bank. OSFF Toronto 2026.

    A practical path beyond Camunda 7

    Camunda 7.24 LTS, released in October 2025, is the final public release, and Camunda states that there will be no further public releases. Enterprise Edition continues to receive maintenance releases: Camunda’s published schedule gives end of maintenance as 13 April 2030, followed by extended support to April 2032.

    Fluxnova maintains backward compatibility with Camunda 7 BPMN 2.0 and DMN models, and provides migration tooling for code, dependencies and configuration. Summit58 scopes the application, data and integration work each implementation requires, then supports the move and the processes that continue to evolve afterwards.

    Where each Reign motion stands

    Reign is not one product at one level of maturity, and the partnership touches motions at different stages. Reign Ops is available today. Twenty-one years operating delivery tooling for regulated enterprises, with named people and an agreed change process. Managed Fluxnova runs here. Reign Gateway is available today: the governed path is in production, and model access, policy and the record of what was requested and returned run through it rather than around it. Being in production is a statement about the component running, not a claim that governance is solved or that every route in an enterprise passes through it on day one.

    Reign Factory is in beta and being productized. It is not generally available; beta access is agreed with us and scoped in writing. Reign Assurance is in co-design development, designed with a small number of organizations, at no charge, on defined scope. It is not available, not sold, and not shipping. No target dates are published for movement between these stages.

    Comment

    “Fluxnova will faithfully record that an agent ran. It will not tell you whether the agent should have done what it did, and in a regulated institution that gap is the whole problem,” said Paul Goldman, Founder and CEO of iTmethods. “Reign Assurance is being designed to prepare the evidence a reviewer can follow.”
    “Fluxnova provides a strong, proven foundation for orchestrating agentic processes and defining the guardrails that keep each agent within its intended boundaries,” said Ryan Johnston, Founder and Managing Principal of Summit58. “We’re excited to work with iTmethods to pair Reign Ops with Fluxnova deployments and to help shape Reign Assurance, combining the tailored operating environment customers need with the evidence and monitoring required to assess and respond to agentic risk as it emerges.”

    Availability

    Managed Fluxnova on Reign Ops is available today, deployed as a single-tenant dedicated instance in infrastructure iTmethods operates or in the customer’s own cloud account on AWS or Azure. Air-gapped and sovereign are in development. Summit58 process engagements are scoped per implementation. Reign Assurance is in co-design development and is not available, not sold, and not shipping.

    About Fluxnova

    Fluxnova is an open-source workflow and decision engine, a project of the Fintech Open Source Foundation, a Linux Foundation project. It maintains backward compatibility with Camunda 7 BPMN 2.0 and DMN models. FINOS names Fidelity Investments, NatWest Group, Deutsche Bank, Capital One and BMO among the organizations involved in the project.

    About iTmethods

    iTmethods runs Continuous Agentic Assurance for regulated enterprises. Four motions: Reign Ops operates the engineering toolchain and the estate beneath it; Reign Factory does the delivery work; Reign Gateway governs model and tool calls at the boundary; Reign Assurance turns the record into evidence a reviewer can follow. iTmethods is a Linux Foundation Silver member and a FINOS member. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and Validated Managed Service Provider.

    About Summit58

    Summit58 is a technology consulting firm specializing in strategic business process automation, workflow orchestration, AI-enabled solutions and custom software development. Its work includes process and decision analysis and modeling and agentic process design. Summit58 advises across several workflow platforms, preserving customer choice as an organization’s needs evolve. For Fluxnova, Summit58 supports evaluation, adoption, migration and day-to-day operation, including support, backed by nearly two decades of direct experience with the Fluxnova codebase and open-source workflow technologies.

    Press contacts

    iTmethods: Ezra Capistrano, press@itmethods.com
    Summit58: Danny Leo, info@summit58.co

    Scope, description and every factual statement about Summit58 in this release are approved by Summit58. Sources for lifecycle and project statements: Camunda support announcements, FINOS Fluxnova FAQs and the FINOS Fluxnova launch announcement. Quotes attributed to Fidelity Investments and Deutsche Bank are on-record conference remarks from OSFF Toronto 2026 and are reproduced verbatim.