Catches: A stacked coupon, price-drift, or rogue agent pushes an order below the cost-basis margin floor.
Verdict: BLOCK before the checkout token is issued — signed dossier attached.
Decionis owns one thing decisively today: margin protection at the point of sale. But the gate that blocks a bad checkout is not a commerce feature — it is a deterministic decision layer for any high-stakes action. The wedge is checkout. The platform is the point of execution: vendor deals, visa applications, code deploys — anywhere an agent or a person is about to commit something you cannot cleanly undo.
Cost-basis margin floors enforced inline at the point of sale in under 120ms. Proven on Shopify with 100+ installs and thousands of governed gates.
The same signed, deterministic verdict — proceed, hold, block, or escalate — in front of any decision where authority moves and mistakes are expensive.
Commerce and ERP are the surfaces where we proved it, not the requirement. The Universal Action Gate is a single API/webhook call: any agent, service, or workflow that asks the gate before it acts is governed by the same policy graph and produces the same signed Decision Dossier. No native integration required — just a call at the moment of execution.
The same gate catches the expensive mistake in each domain. Checkout is live today; the rest are deployable policy patterns on the Universal Action Gate — the pattern is ready, not a pre-packaged one-click template yet.
Catches: A stacked coupon, price-drift, or rogue agent pushes an order below the cost-basis margin floor.
Verdict: BLOCK before the checkout token is issued — signed dossier attached.
Catches: An agent or CI action ships a config change that violates a hard policy — disabling auth, opening a security group, or flipping a production flag.
Verdict: BLOCK or ESCALATE before the change applies, with the violated rule cited.
Catches: An agent or rep commits spend or contract terms beyond policy before a vendor reaches production.
Verdict: ESCALATE to the named approver with reason codes; restrain the commitment.
Catches: A managed workflow would submit an application that fails eligibility or completeness policy.
Verdict: HOLD or ESCALATE before submission so an ineligible filing never leaves the door.
Point-of-execution governance is not one gate at a time. A Decision Chain links related verdicts across domains into a single accountable record, so a later action can depend on an earlier decision instead of trusting a scattered trail of tickets and logs.
Supplier qualification decision — signed, with policy version and evidence.
PO checked against spend policy and the qualified-vendor decision above.
Disbursement gated on both prior verdicts — no orphaned approval, no silent bypass.
Every step is its own signed Decision Dossier; the chain links them into one Decision Ledger record for cross-domain accountability.
Today the Decision Ledger is the durable, signed record behind every verdict. The next step — on our roadmap, not shipped yet — is to expose it as an open, queryable API that AI workflows can consume directly: ask the ledger whether a decision was made, which policy governed it, and how authority moved, so cross-domain agents share one accountable source of truth instead of re-deriving trust per system. We will label it live here the day it ships, and not before.