Powered by RiskMandate
This newsroom is powered by RiskMandate, which works on making AI agents insurable. What that means for what you read here, and RiskMandate in its own words.
What "powered by" means here
The team that runs this newsroom also works on RiskMandate. The editors, not RiskMandate, decide what is published. What RiskMandate gives the newsroom is a lens. Every time we look at an AI agent at the summit, we ask RiskMandate's three questions:
- Reach. What can the agent actually do?
- Mandate. What was it authorised to do?
- Gap. Who controls the difference?
Because of that link, this is not independent of RiskMandate, and we say so on every page. It is independent of Web Summit: we are not affiliated with Web Summit and do not speak for it. Our disclosure has the detail.
RiskMandate in its own words
RiskMandate
Everything in this section is quoted from riskmandate.ai/llms.txt (site v1.40.3, read 5 November 2026). We make no claim for RiskMandate beyond what it says itself.
"The insurability layer for agentic AI." "Make your agents insurable."
"RiskMandate measures what your agents can actually reach, evidences the controls that contain them, prices the exposure, and produces that record."
"The grant is not the mandate: a grant is what a credential technically permits; a mandate is what the holder is authorised to do; the difference is excess authority nobody accepted."
"Never in the request path: read-only by design", with "no runtime decisions, no enforcement point, nothing in line that can slow an agent down or break it."
Its central document is the Agent Behaviour Policy: "a written description, for one agent in one deployment, of everything it can do, what you authorised it to do, the gap between them, and what actually stands in the way. It describes and it does not judge, so it carries no score." (riskmandate.ai/abp.html, read 5 November 2026).
How we use the lens
- On a company's profile, the question is asked, never answered for them: "We have not asked them yet. When they answer, it goes here."
- In articles, the lens appears only where a story is about agents, and only as a question.
- We apply it to ourselves first: the newsroom's own reach, mandate and gap.