Pre-payment control for government fraud.

GovGuard catches the fraud path authentication misses: vendor payment destinations, disbursements, benefit routing, provider enrollment, and eligibility overrides changing inside valid sessions. High-risk actions get named human approval and a verifiable authorization receipt before money or regulated state moves.

For treasurers, controllers, program-integrity teams, and Inspectors General: the receipt gives an outside reviewer a portable record they can check under their own trust inputs, instead of relying only on the operator’s logs or EMILIA.

The Government Accountability Office estimated in 2024 that federal fraud losses are hundreds of billions of dollars annually. GovGuard does not claim to detect every fraud pattern; it closes the action-level proof gap before high-risk changes execute.

GovGuard binds each action to one accountable approver. Where statute or policy requires dual approval — the two-person rule — escalate to a multi-party quorum with EMILIA Quorum.

Start in observe mode. Nothing gets blocked at first. You see what would have needed signoff and get a procurement-grade evidence packet.

Start with one protected workflow.

A fake bank-change email is how the money leaves.

Government payment fraud often doesn’t break in. It walks through an approved-looking workflow:

Your audit evidence survives vendor turnover, acquisition, and SaaS sunset.

Most payment failures start inside approved-looking workflows.

The employee is logged in. The role can edit the record. The form submits. The audit log records a valid session. None of that proves the exact action was authorized before money moved.

GovGuard sits at the action boundary and asks the question authentication cannot answer: who approved this irreversible change, under which policy, for these exact parameters?

Government fraud-control action pack.

Six audit points, from action to evidence.

Observe first. Enforce only after the evidence is trusted.

Government programs cannot move from zero to blocking overnight. GovGuard begins as a fire drill: an evidence layer that shows what would have needed signoff before it becomes a control layer.

The artifact auditors can verify later.

A GovGuard pilot produces EP-RECEIPT-v1 authorization receipts. Each receipt is tied to the action hash, policy hash, approver path, nonce, expiry, and log checkpoint.

It runs where your security review needs it to run.

On-prem and air-gapped deployment is available - a self-contained offline installer that runs with no route off the host. SSO (SAML 2.0 / OIDC) and SCIM 2.0 provisioning connect the named humans who can sign off to your directory. And the evidence is verifiable offline, without EMILIA: a receipt checks out with pure crypto, on a machine that has never touched our network.