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# Organization guardrails

> Guardrails for AI Gateway traffic that does not belong to a registered AI system.

With the AI Gateway, your organization can send model traffic through Altrum before it registers any AI system: with an organization key, or with a person's own key. Organization guardrails govern that traffic.

## How they work

* Open **AI Gateway**, then **Guardrails**. The page says: "These check every key that is not on an AI system. A key on an AI system is checked by that AI system's guardrails only." It has the same eight guardrails as an AI system. See [Guardrail types](/guardrails/types.md).
* It works the way AI system guardrails do: a draft, **Save draft**, **Apply** as a numbered version, **Test guardrails** and **Roll back** under **Versions**. There is no **Risks and controls** tab, because the organization has no assessment.
* Requests made with an organization key or a personal key are checked against the organization's live version.
* Requests made with an AI system's key are checked against that AI system's live version instead. If the AI system has none, its requests are not checked: the organization's guardrails do not apply to it. The AI system's **AI Gateway** tab says so: "No guardrails are live for this AI system, so nothing checks its keys. The organization's guardrails do not apply to them."
* A key that nothing checks shows **Unguarded** next to **Active** in **Virtual keys** and on the AI system's **AI Gateway** tab.
* When an organization key is attached to an AI system, its next request uses the AI system's guardrails.
* Applying a version sends it to the AI Gateway. If the AI Gateway cannot be reached at that moment, the version is still live in Altrum, the screen says "Version 3 is live. Not yet sent to the AI Gateway. Altrum keeps trying." (with the version number), and Altrum keeps trying until it has.

Organization guardrails are configured by hand, and so have only versions set by hand. Suggestions from an assessment apply to AI systems only.

## Who can change them

Owners, admins and Governance Leads. Other members do not see the page.


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