For Vendors

For platform and observability vendors

Your customers can already collect traces, score outputs, and generate compliance records. For higher-accountability deployments, they are also being asked to define operating scope, detect deviation under stated assumptions, and produce structured evidence for review when those assumptions begin to fail.

Overdog adds a commissioned measurement layer above existing platform telemetry. That layer is CARF -- the Conformal Agentic Risk Framework.

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Integration, Not Replacement

This is not a replacement pitch.

CARF is designed to use the telemetry and runtime records vendors already produce. The vendor remains the platform of record. CARF adds commissioning logic, validity monitoring, and structured evidence above that layer.

Why This Is Different

This is not another observability feature.

The gap is not collection. It is calibration, error control, and honest degradation when the assumptions behind monitoring stop holding.

Conformal calibration

Sets operating boundaries with finite-sample statistical guarantees under stated assumptions. The probability of false alarm is bounded -- not estimated, bounded.

E-value sequential monitoring

Accumulates evidence for drift without requiring fixed stopping points. The system can check for deviation at any time without inflating false alarm rates.

Behavioural telemetry over semantic judgement

CARF measures how an agent behaves -- tool-call patterns, interaction dynamics, structural coherence -- rather than relying on another model to judge the output.

These require a different discipline from dashboards and workflow tooling. The right relationship is integration: the vendor provides the telemetry, CARF provides calibrated evidence, and the customer gets both.

What This Means For The Vendor

The vendor's telemetry becomes more valuable. The traces, metrics, and runtime records the vendor already collects become inputs to a measurement pipeline that produces calibrated validity signals and structured evidence. The same data, made more governable.

The vendor's customers get a harder answer. When a customer asks how operating scope is defined, how deviation is detected with known error properties, and what evidence exists for review, the vendor can point to a measurement layer that addresses those questions without having to build that capability internally.

The vendor's platform stays central. The vendor remains the platform of record for execution and telemetry. The measurement layer sits above it and emits outputs that feed the customer's review, escalation, and governance workflows.

What CARF Adds

For a defined deployment, CARF defines:

Commissioned operating scope

A documented boundary within which monitoring assumptions are intended to hold.

Validity states

Four states: Commissioning, Valid, Suspect, Invalid. The state reflects whether the statistical basis for monitoring currently holds. State transitions are logged.

Structured evidence for review

A record linking state changes, policy actions, and runtime observations.

Degradation by design

When the validity state moves to Suspect or Invalid, the system does not silently continue. It emits evidence for review and can trigger escalation, constraint, or autonomy reduction according to the commissioned policy.

The vendor keeps the execution and telemetry layer. CARF adds the measurement layer that makes those records more governable.

How Integration Starts

Start narrow.

One workflow. One declared operating scope. One telemetry stream. One review pathway.

The goal of a reference integration is not broad rollout. It is to test whether the measurement layer produces usable control signals and structured evidence for review in a real deployment.

Who This Is For

Vendors whose customers are moving into deployments where traceability, reviewability, escalation logic, and bounded operational behaviour matter.

And where current monitoring cannot answer questions about formal evidence, known error properties, or structured evidence for review.

Get In Touch

Interested in a reference integration or joint pilot?

Overdog is focused on selected vendor conversations around reference integrations and joint pilot pathways for higher-accountability AI deployments.

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