KBI Media: ORCA Opti Launches Free Governed AI Tool as Agentic Security Risks Accelerate

KBI Media covered the launch of Opti Assist Free, ORCA Opti's no-cost, Australian-hosted AI assistant, and framed it against the arrival of agentic AI: software that no longer waits to be prompted but plans and acts inside your operations. The piece cites Gartner's forecast of a USD $234 billion shift in enterprise application spending by 2030, a signal that the way organisations buy and use software is about to change, and with it the assumptions their governance was built on.

For teams weighing this up, the practical point in the article is where governance has to sit. Once an agent can act autonomously, controls applied after the fact are too late, so Opti Assist Free embeds them at the point the prompt is written, on Australian infrastructure, with customer data staying under the customer's control and never used to train a frontier model. The article also carries a useful proof point: when ORCA's Virtual Veterans project went live it drew genuine jailbreaking attempts within days, and ORCA's own governance capabilities were used to red-team and harden it in production.

Kat's advice to boards is not to tear up what they already have. The existing frameworks aren't broken, she argues; the assumptions underneath them are what changed. You don't need to build a new house, you need to redraw the flood map.

"The winning organisations won't be those that deploy agents the quickest, but those that can prove those agents operate securely. When agents act autonomously inside your operations, the question changes from 'which platform has the most features?' to 'whose infrastructure do I trust?'"

Kathryn Giudes, Founder & Managing Director, ORCA Opti

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