Flow Opens Its Judgment Layer to Every Company Deploying AI Agents
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Californer -- Flow Information Systems today announced that companies deploying autonomous AI agents can now connect to Flow™ and the Flow Judgment Protocol™ (FJP™) and put a year of production judgment to work immediately.

AI agents are starting to move money, book travel, approve purchases and change systems. Every one of those actions raises the same question: was it right to let it happen?

Logs show what an agent did. Identity shows who did it. Neither shows why the action was justified when it was taken.

That is the gap Flow closes.

Before an agent acts, Flow resolves the action into one of three outcomes. Act. Block. Escalate. Each decision produces a Judgment-Grounded Record™: what the agent knew, which evidence mattered, which rules applied, why it acted, and what would prove the call wrong. The record is portable, auditable and built for the reviewers, insurers and risk teams who will ask for it.

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The judgment behind it is not new. For the past year, Flow has delivered daily judgments and recommended actions to a private cohort of founders, executives, and investors managing multiple billions in assets and leading companies that have defined technology from the web to AI. Every action is scored against what happened next. Every score feeds the next day's judgment. The loop compounds.

Now that loop is open to everyone.

"The model companies cannot grade their own homework," said Steve Harmon, founder and CEO of Flow Information Systems. "Accountability for an agent's decision has to come from an independent layer. We spent a year building that layer with people whose decisions move capital and companies. Today any agent can ask it before acting."

As the White House formalizes voluntary review of frontier AI, the auditable decision record is becoming infrastructure. Flow is built for that moment.

Available today

• Abe™, the free, open-source reference gate for FJP. Runs locally. Deterministic. Install from PyPI, npm or Docker in minutes.
• FJP Resolver, Flow's hosted judgment service for escalated actions, from $0.05 per judgment, with enterprise agreements available.
• FJP-CONF™, the open conformance standard (Apache 2.0), so any system can prove its decision records meet the protocol.

Developers and enterprise teams can start at fjp.flowinfo.co.

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About Flow Information Systems
Flow Information Systems builds judgment infrastructure for people and AI agents. Flow resolves the information universe into what matters and what to do about it. Founder Steve Harmon is the creator of the seven-signal Blueshift Framework, author of Zero Gravity (Bloomberg Press), and was lead investor in Applied Semantics, the company behind Google AdSense. Learn more at  https://flowinfo.co