Research Agenda & Applied Telemetry

AI Cost Governance & Automation Oversight

meghIQ is an independent, uncompensated research initiative investigating methods for enterprises to discover, evidence, and govern autonomous workflows across hybrid infrastructure.

Evidence systems under study

New evidence, privacy, and agent-control features now implemented.

The latest backend work strengthens enterprise-grade governance: tamper-evident audit records, cryptographic key rotation, encrypted sensitive fields, GDPR rights workflows, resource mutation evidence, and an AI Agent Registry.

codeimplemented surfacereview basisenterprise relevancestudy lens
A01
Tamper-Evident Audit Chainaudit_events
Hash chain + HMAC signatures

Gives enterprise reviewers a verifiable sequence of actions instead of a loose activity log that can be rewritten after the fact.

integrity
A02
HMAC Key Rotationsigning_keys
Versioned signing keys

Lets the audit chain keep cryptographic continuity while keys evolve, which matters for long-lived regulated environments.

continuity
P01
Encrypted PII With Lookup Hashessensitive_fields
Fernet fields + companion hashes

Protects sensitive identity fields while preserving operational search and ownership lookup without exposing plaintext.

privacy
G01
GDPR Data-Subject Rightsprivacy_requests
Export + erasure router

Supports export and erasure workflows so privacy review is part of the platform architecture, not a manual afterthought.

rights workflow
R01
Resource Mutation Evidenceresource_mutations
Shared audit hooks across routers

Turns creates, updates, deletes, executions, toggles, acknowledgements, and remediations into reviewable tenant-scoped evidence.

change lineage
AG1
AI Agent Registryagent_registry
Agent registry API + UI

Creates a controlled inventory for autonomous agents so organizations can study ownership, access, lifecycle, and operational state.

ownership

Project Status & Disclosure

meghIQ is maintained as an independent, uncompensated research project. The maintainer receives no financial compensation, royalties, or commercial payouts from this project.

Access is extended to research collaborators on a non-commercial basis. No commercial sales, paid licensing, or consumer subscription plans are offered.

Core Inquiries

Primary Research Tracks

Three fundamental challenges structure our empirical investigations.

Discovery & Cataloging

"How can enterprises find every AI and automation workload running across SaaS, cloud, and homegrown stacks — without manual inventory?"

Active Threads
  • Cross-platform automation discovery (Zapier, Power Automate, GitHub Actions, AWS Lambda, internal services)
  • Ownership inference for workloads with no recorded owner
  • Catalog data models suited to governance, not just metadata

Privacy-Preserving Ownership

"How can governance systems preserve owner and user lookup while encrypting sensitive identity fields at rest?"

Active Threads
  • Field-level encryption for sensitive user and automation metadata
  • Lookup-hash columns for encrypted email and owner fields
  • GDPR export and erasure workflows over encrypted records

Governance, Audit & Oversight

"What does tamper-evident audit, policy enforcement, and human-in-the-loop oversight look like for AI-driven automations operating at scale?"

Active Threads
  • Policy-as-code applied to agentic systems
  • Tamper-evident audit chains with HMAC signatures and key rotation
  • Resource mutation audit hooks across automations, workflows, reports, and compliance actions
Methodology

Scientific Approach

Grounded in reproducible artifact generation and transparent telemetry instrumentation.

Open Prototyping

Each research track produces a working implementation that collaborators can evaluate against real topologies.

Empirical Validation

Findings are verified using live runtime execution data from production-grade heterogeneous stacks.

Published Telemetry

Technical write-ups, architecture specifications, and verification proofs form the public outputs.

Academic & Industry Inquiries

Want to Collaborate on This Research?

Beta access is offered without charge to research teams studying AI agent governance, audit non-repudiation, and operational observability.