OneTrust launches CORIE to govern AI agent activity across enterprises

LAS VEGAS—OneTrust has introduced OneTrust CORIE (Contextual Orchestration for Reasoning, Intelligence, and Evidence), a new intelligence layer within the OneTrust Platform designed to govern artificial intelligence (AI) agents in real time while maintaining human oversight.

Announced during TrustWeek 2026, CORIE is intended to help organizations manage the growing use of AI agents by applying governance policies, enforcing rules and documenting decisions as agents interact with enterprise systems.

According to OneTrust's 2026 AI-Ready Governance Report, while 87% of organizations encourage employees to use AI agents, only 47% report having clear governance, oversight and control mechanisms in place. The company said the challenge is expected to intensify as AI agent adoption accelerates.

“AI is putting capabilities once reserved for engineering teams into the hands of every employee. The result is a growing network of agents acting across company systems at a speed and scale no governance team can oversee through human effort alone,” said Blake Brannon, chief innovation officer at OneTrust.

Brannon said CORIE uses an organization's existing governance framework, including privacy, consent, risk, data and AI policies, to determine what actions agents are permitted to take, enforce those decisions and provide evidence of what occurred.

“OneTrust CORIE is our answer to this challenge,” he said. “It uses your organization's context and judgment to decide what an agent is permitted to do, enforce that decision where you can't be, and prove what happened.”

According to OneTrust, CORIE combines an organization's governance data with regulatory intelligence accumulated by the company over the past decade. The platform can be used to govern OneTrust-native agents, customer-built agents and third-party agents. 

Key capabilities include: 

• Translating organizational policies and governance decisions into rules that can be applied to agent requests. 
• Enforcing those rules at runtime by allowing, blocking or escalating actions for human review. 
• Creating an independent audit trail that records the agent, request, purpose, outcome and governing policy behind each decision. 

OneTrust said the technology operates separately from the agents it governs, providing an independent layer of control and accountability. As enterprises continue expanding their use of AI agents, the company said CORIE is designed to help organizations balance automation with governance, auditability and human oversight.