AI software

Outbound AI that stays inside the lines

Keep AI SDR agents inside policy. Outbound messages and commitments get a verdict, an escalation path for risky claims, and a receipt your reviewers can verify.

The problem

The action is the risk, not the model.

An outbound agent that emails prospects can make claims, promises, or contact people it should not. Buyers and their lawyers want a record of what was sent and under what policy.

Granting this agent access means it can send outbound messages and make commitments to prospects. Each of those is a side effect someone has to answer for.

What HELM does

A verdict before the side effect runs.

HELM checks the proposed action against policy before any effect runs, then records a signed receipt. Here is one path for ai sdr and outbound agent vendors.

Agent proposes

Agent drafts an outbound email making a pricing commitment

HELM checks policy

Checks the message against commitment and contact policy

Verdict

ESCALATE

Proof

Message receipt + outbound-policy EvidencePack

Proof you can hand to a reviewer

Evidence that survives outside the dashboard.

Each governed action leaves a record your security reviewer can verify offline.

  • Message receipt
  • Outbound-policy EvidencePack
  • Security-review sample

Action class: Customer communication

How this side effect is governed

Default policy. Risk-tiered: allow low-risk templates, escalate commitments.

Required evidence. Message receipt, template version, approval where required.

Questions

What reviewers ask first.

Can the agent act without approval?

Not for this action class. HELM checks the proposed action against policy before any side effect runs. For customer communication the default is "Risk-tiered: allow low-risk templates, escalate commitments", so anything unknown or unapproved stops by default.

What evidence do I show a security reviewer?

Every decision records message receipt, template version, approval where required. You hand the reviewer the signed receipt and EvidencePack, which they verify offline without access to your dashboard.

Does this slow the agent down?

The check sits in the action path, not the conversation. Low-risk actions that policy already permits proceed; only consequential side effects pause for a verdict or an approver.

Hand your reviewer proof, not promises.

Bring one customer communication action to the boundary and see the verdict and the receipt.