Running TRACE as a service, AI Infrastructure

TRACE Agency Implementation, Hardware-Attested AI Governance for Client Delivery

Learn how to architect and deliver hardware-attested AI agent governance as a productized service. This course teaches agencies how to integrate TRACE's silicon attestation and transparency ledger anchoring into client workflows, build compliance-ready agent deployments, and generate verifiable trust records that satisfy enterprise audit requirements.

Open the decision record for TRACE

What does running TRACE for clients commit you to?

Published figures for this service. Blank fields are not published.

Monthly tool cost
Vendor pricing model is open-source, so no license tiers are published; the investment is engineering labor plus TEE/attestation infrastructure, which TRACE does not price. Not modeled from vendor data.
Time to first value
Not published for setup duration; setup_complexity is rated 'high' and time_to_value is 'days'
Payback
Not modeled, client price, labor cost, usage cost, overhead, and expected engagement volume are not supplied in the available data
Guided implementation
8 hours

Is TRACE worth running as a client service?

The evidence supports a defensible managed-service offer around hardware-attested AI agent governance for clients already running agents on attested hardware, differentiated by standards-based verification and SCITT anchoring. What remains unknown is the agency's deliverable price, labor cost, and volume, so no ROI or margin can be stated.

An agency-fit judgement for reselling this service. It is separate from the tool description on the decision record.

Before you start

What has to be in place before the first client engagement.

Tools and subscriptions

  • Access to a TEE platform: AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, or NVIDIA H100 for hardware attestation evidence
  • Python environment for the agentrust-trace SDK (pip install agentrust-trace)
  • Agent runtime or governance toolkit integration: Microsoft AGT, NVIDIA OpenShell, or cMCP
  • SCITT transparency-ledger access for anchoring receipts
  • Conformance test suite access to score implementation levels

People and inputs

  • Engineering capability to generate hardware-attested trust records bound to silicon attestation roots
  • Ability to produce and reference policy bundles by hash alongside agent execution context
  • Verification workflow capability to check trust records against hardware roots without trusting the operator
  • Capacity consistent with setup_complexity rated 'high', which signals a non-trivial onboarding effort

Included with the course

7 working documents for delivering this service.

  • TRACE Integration Checklist for Agent Deploymentschecklist
  • Hardware Attestation Setup SOP (AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, NVIDIA H100)sop
  • Client Trust Record Verification Worksheetworksheet
  • SCITT Ledger Anchoring Configuration Templatetemplate
  • Conformance Test Suite Scoring Guide for Governance Auditsguide
  • Agent Policy Bundle Documentation Templatetemplate
  • Attestation Evidence Collection Playbooksop

Listed by name. These documents are not yet published as individual downloads.