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- Score each run against the scope you defined for that agent
- Catch behaviour that drifts from its baseline after a change
- Hold or escalate an out-of-scope action for review before it completes
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- A full record of every action, decision, and outcome per agent
- Evidence mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, and the EU AI Act
- A tamper-evident log with chain-of-custody integrity
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- Automated scoring of each run against the criteria you set
- Thresholds that trigger review or rollback when a run falls short
- A composite score combining quality, cost, and scope signals
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- Per-agent, per-task cost attribution as runs happen
- Cost-to-outcome ratios that flag spend out of line with the result
- Budgets that pause an agent before an overrun
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- A central record of every agent across the organisation
- Lifecycle states from registration through retirement
- Approval gates before an agent reaches production
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- The activity schema you define is checked on every run
- A breach can hold the action, escalate it, or block it before it completes
- Exceptions route to the right people for review
What others cover
Not a security tool. Not a tracing dashboard. Not another framework.
Prefactor is the agent evaluation, observability and optimisation platform. Here is how it differs from each segment.
vs Security Platforms
Security platforms defend against threats: prompt injection, data exfiltration, adversarial attacks. Prefactor knows whether agents are doing their job, staying in scope, and delivering a result worth the cost. Security answers whether it is safe. Prefactor answers whether it is working.
vs Observability
Observability tools record what happened: traces, logs, metrics, dashboards. Prefactor evaluates whether the run did its job, tells you what to fix, and can hold a risky action before it reaches a user. Tracing is read-only; evaluation acts on what it finds.
vs Governance Platforms
Governance documentation platforms catalogue policies and produce audit packs. Prefactor checks every run against the activity schema you define, and a breach can hold, escalate, or block the action inline.
vs Agent Platforms
Agent platforms build and run agents: orchestration, tool use, memory, deployment. Prefactor is framework-agnostic evaluation that works across all of them. Build with any framework and evaluate with Prefactor, with no platform lock-in.
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Prefactor vs building it yourself
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Decision framework for build vs buyPrefactor vs Palo Alto Prisma AIRS
Prisma AIRS secures the AI attack surface. Prefactor evaluates every run and helps you improve the agent behind it.
AI security vs agent evaluationPrefactor vs Zenity
Zenity secures your agents. Prefactor knows if they are doing their jobs.
Agent security vs agent evaluationPrefactor vs Aim Security
Aim Security defends the agent attack surface. Prefactor watches every run and catches the ones that go wrong.
Agentic AI security vs agent evaluationPrefactor vs Lakera
Lakera screens prompts and responses. Prefactor evaluates the whole run and tells you what to fix.
Prompt security vs agent evaluationPrefactor vs Fiddler AI
Fiddler watches the model. Prefactor knows if the agent is doing its job.
ML observability vs agent evaluationPrefactor vs Credo AI
Credo AI documents AI policy. Prefactor evaluates what agents actually do in production, run by run.
Policy documentation vs agent evaluationPrefactor vs Microsoft Agent 365
Agent 365 manages agent access. Prefactor tells you whether each agent is doing its job, and proves it.
Identity and access vs agent evaluationPrefactor vs IBM watsonx Orchestrate
watsonx Orchestrate builds and runs agents. Prefactor evaluates and improves them, on any stack.
Agent platform vs agent evaluation