We build the software. We also document why it exists. This is an ongoing research programme into AI governance for African regulated industries — the laws, the failures, and the infrastructure required to close the enforcement gap.
Africa does not have an AI regulation gap. It has an accountability gap. This paper documents the enforcement gap — the space between a regulation's existence and an AI agent's ability to honour it — and proposes runtime enforcement infrastructure as the solution.
How machine-readable policy rules change the compliance posture of AI agents — and what a formal policy-as-code specification for African regulatory environments looks like. Covers evaluation semantics, rule composition, and the gap between legal text and computable policy.
A framework for systematically evaluating the compliance posture of AI agent deployments across African jurisdictions — metrics, methodologies, and baseline results from comply54 policy packs. Designed to be reproducible and independently verifiable.
Most open-source developer tools ship with documentation and tutorials. Comply54 ships with those too — and also with original research explaining why the infrastructure is needed, what the regulatory environment actually looks like, and how enforcement should work at the system level.
That combination is rare. One paper is interesting. A series establishes a body of work. The goal is to make comply54 the authoritative source for practitioners, regulators, and researchers who need to understand AI compliance in African regulated markets.
Start with the software or the paper — both make the same argument.