Governance

Where it runs, and what leaves.

This page is written for the person who has to approve the thing. Every section is labelled with whether it describes how Guerrilla Bots works today or what gets agreed with your IT team before a pilot starts, because those are different promises and running them together would be dishonest.

Where the work runs

How it works today

Operative is a Windows desktop agent. It runs on the machine already in use, signed in as the person who already does the job, against the systems that person is already entitled to open. It opens no inbound network path and needs no new server.

Workflows live under the user profile, in the application data folder, and every save writes a timestamped snapshot so an earlier version of a process can be recovered without a source control system.

A workflow file carries a reference to a stored sign in. It never carries the sign in itself, so a workflow can be read, reviewed and moved without exposing anything.

The AI layer

How it works today

Guerrilla Bots uses Anthropic's Claude models. The model is used to read what a recording captured and put it into plain language, and to answer questions about the workbook logic a person narrates while recording. It does not hold the automation. The steps themselves are captured deterministically by the application.

The default route is Anthropic's official API. For an enterprise pilot, the same models can be served through Amazon Bedrock inside your own AWS account and region, so that the call stays within your cloud boundary and appears on your own bill and your own logs. That route is available on request and is set up as part of pilot onboarding rather than being switched on by default.

Under Anthropic's commercial API terms, inputs sent through the API are not used to train their models. We do not use your process content to train anything either.

What is sent

  • The element or cell you are working on at that moment
  • The values you just changed in that window
  • What you said out loud while recording, if you use narration
  • The shape of the workflow captured so far

What is not

  • Your workbook as a whole, or any file at rest
  • Sign in details, keys or tokens
  • Anything from a system the recording never touched
  • Anything belonging to another customer, ever

Environments

Agreed before a pilot

A recorded process should not go from one person's desk into a month end close in a single step. The model we set up with your IT team separates a workflow into three environments, held as three separate folders with their own access:

  • DEVWhere a process is recorded and corrected. Sample or masked data only.
  • UATWhere the person who owns the process checks the output against a known good result before anybody depends on it.
  • PRODWhere it runs for real, on the schedule agreed, against the live systems.

Promotion between them is a deliberate act with a record of who did it, rather than a file being copied quietly. This is the model, and it is not in the product yet. Guerrilla Bots is pre-launch and this page will say so plainly until it ships.

Scope of access

Agreed before a pilot

An automation should be able to reach exactly what its process needs and nothing else. What we agree with IT before a pilot is a named list, not a general permission:

  • The specific applications the process is allowed to drive, named individually.
  • The specific folders it may read from, named individually.
  • The specific folders it may write to, which is a shorter list than the read list in almost every process.
  • Nothing outside that list, including anywhere else on the same machine.

Read and write are granted separately, per folder. A process that produces a report reads from four places and writes to one, so it gets four read grants and one write grant, and that is the whole of its reach.

Confidentiality

Commercial and confidentiality terms, including a mutual non disclosure agreement, are agreed before a pilot begins. If your procurement or legal team needs to see paper before a technical conversation, that is a normal order to do things in and we are happy to start there.

What we are not claiming

Guerrilla Bots is pre-launch. There is no certification to show you, no audit report, and no customer reference, because there are no customers yet. Any vendor page that implies otherwise at this stage is worth reading twice.

What is on this page is either how the software works today, which you are welcome to verify during a pilot, or what we will put in writing before one starts. Nothing here is a measured result.

Questions an IT or CoE reviewer wants answered that are not on this page are worth asking us directly. Related reading: the privacy policy and how the governance model compares to conventional RPA.