Govern every AI action. Accelerate every mission.
Nuggets is the trust layer for autonomous AI. We govern AI at the point of execution. Nuggets extends the Zero Trust architecture agencies are building under the federal Zero Trust mandate (OMB M-22-09) to govern AI agents as they act, and supports federal AI governance requirements. Every action verified, every decision recorded, every outcome provable, without replacing the systems agencies already run.
The Government AI Challenge
Federal agencies have AI systems taking actions across their infrastructure. The question is no longer whether to deploy AI. It is whether every AI action can be proven authorised, auditable and compliant at the moment it executes.
Agencies have been building Zero Trust under federal mandate since OMB M-22-09. But Zero Trust was designed for humans and devices. When an AI agent acts autonomously across systems, clouds and APIs, the architecture cannot answer the questions it is built on: who authorised this, under whose authority, was it within scope, and can it be proven to an auditor. For most agencies running AI in production, the honest answer is no. That is what holds AI pilots back from production at scale.
Nuggets governs the action itself. Zero Trust controls access. Nuggets controls what an AI agent is permitted to do, and proves it.
The Nuggets Trust Layer governs every AI action against four questions, evaluated at the point of execution:
Identity. Cryptographically verifiable identity for every actor, human, organisation, AI agent and machine, across federal, state and local systems.
Authority. Every AI agent acts under explicit, provable delegated authority from a specific person or organisation, enforced in real time.
Intent. What the agent is requesting to do, and the constraints it must stay within, established and checked before execution.
Action. Whether this specific action is permitted to proceed, enforced at runtime, and recorded as a verifiable action record with full provenance for audit, compliance and investigation on demand.
Built on W3C open standards with ISO 27001 certification. Extends existing IAM, PAM and cloud infrastructure rather than replacing it. Vendor-neutral, with multi-cloud and on-premises deployment.
Compliance Ready
- Compliant with NIST SP 800-63 IAL2/IAL3 and AAL2 requirements
- FISMA-ready architecture with comprehensive audit trails
- Supports Privacy Act compliance with no PII stored on agency servers
- Supports federal AI governance and Zero Trust requirements
Government Use Cases
- AI Agent Operations: Deploy AI agents across citizen services and back-office operations with provable delegated authority and full auditability of every action
- Citizen Services: Verified human identity with fraud prevention and secure service delivery
- Internal Operations: Secure employee authentication and inter-agency collaboration with human-in-the-loop oversight
- Public Safety: Verified identity for critical communications and high-assurance authorisation environments
Why Government Agencies Choose Nuggets
Built for action, not just access. Zero Trust governs who and what can reach a system. Nuggets governs what an autonomous AI agent is permitted to do, the control layer agentic AI requires and that no existing IAM product provides.
Proven in regulated environments. Worked with the Bank of England and the European Commission. Recognised by Gartner as a global leader in Identity Wallets alongside Apple, Google and Microsoft, across multiple categories.
Ready for Deployment
Nuggets is available to US federal agencies through Carahsoft GSA contracts, with dedicated government support and professional services.
Contact Carahsoft today to begin governing your agency's AI at the point of execution.