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    Reign Subscription · Tier Two

    Reign Assurance. Evidence the board, the auditor, and the regulator share.

    Mid tier of the Reign subscription. Outcome validation, Assurance Packs, and an IIA-aligned written agreement that spells out the rules each agent must operate under. Audit-grade by construction. Reign Assurance is the subscription tier. Assurance Packs are the deliverables it ships.

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    Tier position
    Outcome validation and evidence
    Maturity levels
    Levels 3 to 4. Scaled autonomy.
    Primary outcome
    Board-grade reporting on a defensible cadence
    Operating model
    Operating partner team plus named assurance lead
    The executive question this tier answers

    “How do we produce board-grade evidence of control effectiveness across our autonomous operations?”

    What is included at this tier

    Five things ship with the Assurance tier.

    Platform is the foundation. Assurance adds the operating partnership that turns runtime evidence into the artifact the audit committee, the external auditor, and the regulator each read.

    Included

    Everything in Reign Platform

    The runtime control plane is the foundation. Pre-action assurance at the gateway, the tamper-evident ledger, the model and agent inventory, sovereign deployment, the operator console. Assurance builds on Platform.

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    Included

    Assurance Pack delivery on a regular cadence

    Submission-grade evidence packages mapped to the regulatory frameworks that apply to your business. Packs are assembled continuously from the underlying evidence corpus and delivered to the audit committee on the cadence named in the written agreement that spells out the rules each agent must operate under, with on-demand assembly when a regulator or attestor asks.

    See the Assurance Pack catalog
    Included

    IIA-aligned written agreement

    The assurance work is delivered against a written agreement that spells out the rules each agent must operate under, aligned to the Institute of Internal Auditors' guidance on assurance services. Scope, framework coverage, evidence cadence, exception handling, attestor access, and the audit and risk committee reporting line are all named.

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    Included

    Board-grade reporting

    Quarterly board and audit and risk committee reporting produced from the evidence corpus. Material risk posture across the AI portfolio. Incident classifications. Framework coverage. The iTmethods operating partner team produces it, the customer's risk and audit leads review it, the committee receives it.

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    Included

    External attestor surface

    A read-only, attestor-neutral surface that any Big-4 auditor or specialist AI attestor can be granted access to. The Reign architecture is attestor-neutral by design. Multiple attestors can be granted access in parallel without renegotiation.

    Read the Audit Ledger
    Tier vs Packs · Read this once

    Reign Assurance is the subscription tier. Assurance Packs are the deliverables it ships.

    The pack catalog (SR 26-2, OSFI E-23, EU AI Act, FDA PCCP, DORA, FINOS AIGF, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF and the rest) is a Spine reference, documented at /reign/assurance-packs. The Assurance tier is the operating partnership that produces those packs against a written agreement spelling out the rules each agent must operate under, on a delivery cadence, with a named assurance lead.

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    /reign/assurance
    The subscription. The operating partnership. The contract, the cadence, the operating partner team, the assurance lead.
    Component reference
    /reign/assurance-packs
    The Spine catalog of the evidence packages themselves. Open the catalog.
    Framework coverage in the pack catalog
    SR 26-2OSFI E-23EU AI Act Articles 11 and 12FDA PCCP21 CFR Part 11DORAFINOS AIGF v2.0ISO 42001NIST AI RMFNIST 800-171 and CMMC
    The maturity stage this tier answers to

    Reign Assurance sits at Maturity Levels 3 and 4.

    The three subscription tiers are maturity stages, not packaging options. Level 3 is controlled production, the level Platform takes the customer to. Level 4 is scaled autonomy, where AI runs across many workflows and business units, with assurance opinions produced on a defensible cadence and consumed by the board, the external auditor, and the regulator.

    L1
    Ad-hoc oversight
    L2
    Policy in place
    L3
    Controlled production
    L4
    Scaled autonomy
    L5
    Continuous recalibration

    At this stage, the runtime control plane is in place and the question shifts from “is the action allowed” to “is the operating effectiveness defensible to an external attestor?” The artifact the audit committee receives is built from the same runtime record the action itself generated. Submission-ready evidence assembles continuously, not retrospectively.

    Reign operates continuously in production. At runtime, before material agent actions, as exceptions occur, and as outcomes are observed. The assurance opinion is current as of the last action, not as of the last sample.

    The progression from Platform to Assurance is the progression from “we have policy enforcement and evidence” to “we have an opinion the board can sign against.” Read the Autonomy Assurance Maturity Model.

    Where this tier sits in the funnel

    Reign Assurance is part of Stage 4. Platform Rollout, expanded with outcome validation and Assurance Packs.

    The engagement funnel has four stages. Executive Assurance Briefing, Runtime Risk and Governance Assessment, Focused Pilot, and Platform Rollout. Assurance is the mid-tier of the Reign subscription that customers step up to once Platform is established. The annual subscription includes an iTmethods operating partner team scoped to the customer’s deployment, plus an assurance lead from iTmethods who owns the written agreement that spells out the rules each agent must operate under, end to end.

    Operating partnership

    Operating partner team

    Scoped to the customer's deployment. iTmethods supports the customer's team in operating Reign Platform inside the customer environment. The Spine engineering surface is what produces the evidence.

    Operating partnership

    Assurance lead

    Owns the written agreement that spells out the rules each agent must operate under, end to end. Framework mapping, the pack catalog scoped to the customer, the IIA-aligned agreement, the quarterly board reporting, and the external attestor relationship on the customer's behalf.

    Operating partnership

    Working cadence

    Monthly working sessions with the customer risk and audit teams, quarterly with the audit committee, on demand with the external attestor. Evidence delivery on a contracted cadence with on-demand pack generation when a regulator or attestor asks.

    The four steps in
    1. 01

      Scoping call with iTmethods

      We map the AI portfolio, the regulatory framework set that applies, the audit and risk committee cadence the customer is held to, and the external attestor relationship.

    2. 02

      Written agreement drafted

      Scope, framework coverage, evidence cadence, exception handling, attestor access, and the audit and risk committee reporting line. IIA-aligned. The agreement spells out the rules each agent must operate under.

    3. 03

      Charter signed

      Ninety-day design-partner pilot. The written agreement is the document iTmethods is accountable against.

    4. 04

      Operating partner team plus assurance lead in motion

      Stepped commitment into the Assurance tier subscription follows the pilot.

    Where Assurance sits in the subscription

    Reign Platform

    Levels 2 to 3

    Position. Runtime control plane

    Primary outcome. Pre-action assurance

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    Reign Assurance

    Levels 3 to 4

    Position. Outcome validation and evidence

    Primary outcome. Board-grade reporting

    Reign Continuous

    Levels 4 to 5

    Position. Adaptive recalibration at scale

    Primary outcome. Regulator-ready operating model

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    Boundary statement

    Reign does not replace enterprise governance, legal review, model risk management, or audit. It gives those functions runtime evidence, exception visibility, and continuous assurance signals they can act on.