Authority still lives in documents. Execution no longer waits for them.

Alloy focuses on identity, fraud, compliance, and credit decisioning for financial institutions. Decionis governs broader enterprise execution with deterministic policy gates before money moves or system state changes.

Identity answers who is acting and what they may reach. Decionis answers whether this specific action should happen, evaluated against policy at the moment it is proposed. Every organisation needs the first; the second is a different question that identity does not ask, and both vendors now ship agent-identity products that make the distinction easier to blur.

Oso and Cerbos externalise the authorization your application already needed: may this user read this document, edit this project, see this record. Decionis decides whether a consequential action should execute at all, and leaves signed evidence of the answer. The shared word is authorization; the questions are different ones.

WorkOS gives applications and their agents identity, credentials, fine-grained authorization and audit logs — and argues those belong in one place so that which agent did something, and on whose authority, has an answer. Decionis answers a narrower question that sits above all three: whether this specific action may execute now — and it signs the answer so the record outlives the stack that produced it.

Control what AI agents do—not just what they say. Guardrails AI helps developers constrain and validate model behavior. Decionis gives your team execution authority for enterprise actions, with deterministic policy checks and signed Decision Dossiers.

Check Point's AI security, built on Lakera, defends models and agents in real time and now describes its agent work as moving from access control to outcome control. Decionis is the third box that phrase points at: it decides whether the action may execute, outside the stack, and signs a record of the decision that re-derives without the vendor.

LangChain Guardrails helps developers manage guardrails around AI workflows. Decionis gives your team execution authority that decides whether enterprise actions can proceed before money moves or systems change.

Decionis gives your team execution authority before money moves or systems change. ServiceNow IRM is broader integrated risk management inside the ServiceNow ecosystem.

Decionis gives your team execution authority at the point of action before money moves or systems change. IBM OpenPages is broader governance, risk, and compliance software for enterprise risk programs.

Cohere Health generates clinical-intelligence prior authorization recommendations. Decionis governs whether the resulting action is authorized to execute and produces a portable signed Decision Dossier. They sit at different layers and can run together.

Shopify's native discount combinations, Scripts, and Flow can express rules, but they don't verify margin against a real cost basis, don't fail closed on a wrong cost, and leave no signed, portable proof of what was held and why. Decionis is the deterministic margin-governance layer that does — and it installs read-only first.

Agentis positions itself as an AI-powered margin governance layer with COGS-aware margin-floor enforcement at checkout. Decionis is one deterministic gate that governs coupon-stacking, margin, over-selling, and rogue-agent actions together in under 120ms, and seals a signed, non-repudiable Ed25519 Decision Dossier per decision — not a plain audit log. It installs read-only first, with no demo required.

Runta and Decionis both say “execution layer,” but they govern different altitudes. Runta governs where an agent runs — the sandbox: microVM isolation, egress allow-listing, credential injection, and replayable execution records. Decionis governs whether a specific business action is allowed at the moment of execution — it intercepts and consumes the action inline (ISO-8583 payment authorization, native bot actions, workflow pre-commit) and seals a signed, reproducible Ed25519 Decision Dossier. They are complementary layers, not substitutes.

Signifyd positions itself around order-fraud screening and chargeback-liability protection using a probabilistic identity and risk score. Decionis is a different job: it stops good-faith margin leakage — coupon-stacking, price drift, rogue-agent pricing, and over-selling — deterministically at checkout and seals a signed Decision Dossier. They are complementary.

A margin report in BigQuery, a spreadsheet, or a BI dashboard detects margin loss days or weeks later — after the money is gone. Decionis prevents it by blocking the below-floor order inline at checkout in under 120ms and sealing signed proof. Detection versus prevention; retrospective BI versus an execution-time control plane.

Shopify Functions and the Validation APIs can reject an order at checkout, but you build and maintain the margin math yourself — without a verified cost basis, a signed non-repudiable Decision Dossier, or cross-channel/ERP coverage — and they are Shopify-only and easy to leave fail-open. Decionis is the governed, signed, cross-surface guardrail; a custom Function is unsigned bespoke code.

Open Policy Agent is an excellent general-purpose policy engine: you write Rego, wire the enforcement points yourself, and get fast allow/deny answers for infrastructure and service authorization. Decionis is execution authority for business actions — the enforcement surfaces, escalation to humans, and signed per-decision evidence come built, so a held discount or agent purchase produces proof, not just a boolean.

Credal builds and runs enterprise agents with three governance layers of its own: it mirrors the permissions users already hold in the systems it connects, can require human approval before an action runs, and keeps an audit trail of every action initiated, approved and executed. Decionis governs the action from outside the platform that proposes it, against written policy rather than mirrored permissions, and signs a record that re-derives without either vendor.