DICTIVA DOCUMENTATION

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And the people building it into their systems.

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Practical handbooks for clearer policies, shared responsibility, and everyday governance.

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The foundations

Start with the core concepts
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The policy workshop

Build policies & standards
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The human side

Groups, roles & membership
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The compliance guide

Connect policies to regulations
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Agent API integration

Understand the integration model and governance workflow.

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MCP Governance Server

Bring governance tools into your agent environment.

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PCA API reference

Explore the attestation interface and evidence model.

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Quick Starts3
Getting Started2
Features13
Collaboration1
Administration5
Integrations5
Compliance5
Process Governance4

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40 guides

Vision

Agentic Governance

Identity, policy, and verifiable evidence for the AI agents acting on your behalf. The on-ramp to Dictiva for builders, governance leads, and policy authors.

Vision

Policy Governance

Adopt regulations. Craft statements. Attest with humans and agents alike. The policy graph foundation that makes agentic governance possible.

Quick Starts

Solo Developer Quick-Start

From "I have Claude Code" to "my agents emit verifiable evidence" in 30 minutes. The on-ramp for builders shipping with AI.

Quick Starts

Governance Professional Quick-Start

See, trust, and audit what developer agents commit to in Dictiva. Compare dashboard and API paths for coverage gaps, expiring attestations, and evidence.

Quick Starts

Policy Author Quick-Start

Author a policy once in Dictiva and give every agent a machine-readable rule it can honor. Compare dashboard and API paths for attestable statements.

Getting Started

Getting Started

Create your Dictiva account and set up your first governance workspace in minutes. Choose domains, preview library statements, and publish policies.

Getting Started

Core Concepts

Understand the key building blocks of Dictiva: governance statements, assemblies, domains, the library, optional modules, and how they connect across the compliance lifecycle.

Features

Working with Statements

Create, edit, version, and manage governance statements in Dictiva. Learn about the statement lifecycle, taxonomy levels, and assembly composition.

Features

Building Policies & Standards

Combine governance statements into publishable policy documents, standards, and procedures. Manage versions, approvals, and PDF export with assemblies.

Features

Assembly Lifecycle

Understand how assemblies move through governance stages, from draft to published, what happens at each transition, and why published assemblies are immutable.

Features

Using the Library

Preview, search, and adopt governance statements from Dictiva's curated library: 10,000+ pre-written requirements across 33 domains and four maturity levels.

Features

Library Adoption

Understand how library adoption works in Dictiva: copy independence, version tracking, divergence detection, and what the Library Origin panel tells you.

Features

Understanding Domains

Learn how governance domains organize policies, statements, and library content in Dictiva, and how to select the right domains during onboarding and beyond.

Features

Understanding Tags

Learn how governance tags organize content, enable automation, and provide accountability across your governance program.

Features

Glossary & Terminology

Manage governance terminology with Dictiva's curated library glossary and your organization's custom terms. Define, link, and standardize key concepts.

Features

Regulations & Compliance Mapping

Browse 57 regulatory frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA. Map governance statements to specific requirements and track compliance coverage.

Features

Acknowledgment Workflows

Send policy acknowledgment requests to individuals and groups, track who has reviewed and accepted, and build an auditable compliance evidence trail.

Features

Use Cases

Navigate real-world governance scenarios mapped to your adopted policies, procedures, and glossary terms. Find the right guidance for any operational situation.

Features

Actions & Task Inbox

Track governance tasks, smart alerts, and follow-up items in Dictiva's centralized action inbox. Prioritize overdue items and compliance gaps.

Features

AI Assistant & Comprehension

Use AI-powered tools to understand governance content, verify comprehension with sessions and cards, and see how AI credits and the AI & Agents module fit together.

Collaboration

Groups & Membership

Organize your governance workforce into groups with the Organizations module, add members via a guided wizard, manage invitations, and track membership from staged to active.

Administration

User Management & Roles

Invite team members, assign system or custom roles, and control who can view, edit, approve, and publish governance content across your Dictiva workspace.

Administration

Organization Settings

Configure your Dictiva workspace: optional modules, organization profile, domain selection, reading typography, language, access and security settings.

Administration

Billing & Plans

Compare Dictiva's four plan tiers: Community, Professional, Business, and Enterprise. Manage your subscription, billing history, and feature entitlements.

Administration

API Keys & Integrations

Create API keys, authenticate with Bearer tokens, and integrate Dictiva governance data into CI/CD pipelines, dashboards, and third-party tools via REST.

Administration

Language Support

Dictiva supports 8 languages out of the box. Learn how to set your preferred language and how to request support for additional languages.

Integrations

MCP Governance Server

Connect AI agents to your governance program using the Model Context Protocol. Agent REST endpoints, MCP tools, ontology export, and governance bundles.

Integrations

Agent API Integration

Connect custom agents, automations, and internal tools to Dictiva's governance data using REST or MCP. Includes curl, TypeScript, and Python quickstarts with copy-paste examples.

Integrations

Policy Commitment Attestation (PCA)

The technical mechanism behind 'Governance your agents can follow.' Issue, verify, and revoke W3C Verifiable Credentials that bind AI agents to specific governance statements at declared maturity tiers.

Integrations

PCA API Reference

REST endpoint reference for issuing, listing, fetching, revoking, and verifying Policy Commitment Attestation credentials. Plus the three public did:web and Status List 2021 endpoints used by external verifiers.

Integrations

Agent Identity for Real Teams

Practical guide: which AI agents need their own identity, where that identity actually lives, best practices vs. anti-patterns, and copy-paste templates for AGENTS.md and .claude/agents/, by team size and sophistication.

Compliance

AF Compliance Coverage Matrix

How Dictiva Agent Foundation capabilities map to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2 and the EU AI Act.

Compliance

NIST AI RMF

Agent Foundation coverage for NIST AI RMF.

Compliance

ISO/IEC 42001:2023

Agent Foundation coverage for ISO/IEC 42001:2023.

Compliance

SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria

Agent Foundation coverage for SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria.

Compliance

EU AI Act

Agent Foundation coverage for EU AI Act.

Process Governance

Risk Assessment

Understand how Dictiva calculates inherent and residual risk for processes using the likelihood-impact matrix, control effectiveness, and risk trend indicators.

Process Governance

Business Criticality

Assess business criticality for your processes: a structured approach to determining which processes matter most to your organization.

Process Governance

RACI Accountability Model

Use RACI matrices in Dictiva procedures to clarify who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for each governance step.

Process Governance

RAPID Accountability Model

Use the RAPID decision framework in Dictiva procedures to clarify who Recommends, Agrees, Performs, provides Input, and Decides on each governance step.

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