Daniel Mackle
Founder and CTO
Technical founder with experience across corporate finance and software implementation in Australia, Singapore and North America.
About
Governance that reaches the action
Cogna8 is an AI governance platform built in Sydney. It gives organisations one record of their AI, from inventory and risk to controls and evidence, and decides whether an agent may act before it does.
Why we started
Working inside AI agent systems, one pattern kept surfacing: the hardest failures were not about model quality. They came from agents acting on facts that had quietly changed, conflicted or were never approved, with no record of who allowed what.
- Governance programmes could describe AI risk, but not stop a bad action
- Agent tools could act, but not show they were authorised
- Cogna8 joins the two: one record, from the register to the decision
Executive team
Engineering depth, governance experience
Behind the core team sit senior backend and frontend engineers engaged on the build, a solutions architect with data and AI expertise, and advisers across governance, financial services and infrastructure.
Anita Douglas
Founding Advisor
Board and regulator-level expertise with more than 20 years across governance, risk and delivery assurance, including ASX, Allianz, Australian Retirement Trust and major infrastructure companies.
We are growing engineering and advisory capacity. If you build AI systems, or lead governance, risk or operations where agents will act under real constraints, get in touch.
Investors
Investing in governed AI
Cogna8 is a privately held company building in Sydney. We are happy to talk with investors who understand regulated industries and the shift from AI that advises to AI that acts.
What we are building
An AI governance platform that starts where enterprise programmes start, with an inventory and the controls that apply, and carries the same record through to an authorisation decision before an agent acts.
- Product: inventory, risk, controls, assurance and action authorisation in one platform
- Focus: regulated organisations in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific
- Research: published reviews of AI agent regulation across five jurisdictions
Materials are shared on request.
Let's connect
Tell us where your AI programme is today. We start with a short, scoped pilot on your own AI estate, and every enquiry is handled in confidence.