Think about how fast AI agents zip through planning and execution today. Now, imagine putting them to work in a compliance-heavy sector like finance or healthcare. The risk isn't just a simple mistake; it's the slow, silent erosion of trust when you can't prove where the data came from or why a decision was made.

Odyssey Scout is the specialized web research agent you add to your multi-agent workflow. It is designed for audit-ready output: pulling only from approved sources, citing the exact lines it used, and producing an evidence pack your reviewers can sign.

The best part? Everything runs privately in your VPC with a zero-retention posture. The result is not only an answer, but an answer you can defend.

Ever Worry About Where That Data Really Came From?

Today's AI agents are powerful, but ungoverned web access still trips them up. This isn't just about "hallucination"; it's about the lack of verifiable context when the stakes are high.

• Provenance Gaps: Who published the source, and is it trustworthy? Unchecked sources turn confident AI answers into legal liability.
• Freshness Issues: Search results often surface mirrored or outdated posts that look new but are stale. Can you prove the advisory was valid on the day the agent used it?
• Shallow Citations: Most tools cite at the page level. If a 50-page PDF is cited, where exactly did your claim originate? Reviewers need the precise segment, not the whole document.

If you can’t show where a fact came from and when it was valid, your internal review and legal teams will slow, or stop your entire workflow.

Introducing Scout: Your Audit-Ready Agent

Odyssey Scout is a governed web research engine designed to solve these problems by specializing the research function within your AI ecosystem. It is one agent in an orchestrated workflow, where different agents handle separate functions—one researches the live web, others synthesize, route, or request approvals. Scout ensures the research part is private, explainable, and auditable.

How does Scout ensure compliance?

• It enforces domain allowlists: These are approved lists of websites the agent can access. Scout simply refuses to look at any site outside that list.
• It confines targeted search and activities: This limits searches and actions to specific, approved areas, ensuring the agent stays within compliance boundaries and prevents costly sprawl.

Scout creates line-level citations with SourceSnips™ and exports complete evidence packs, all while running in a zero-trust posture inside your VPC. Scout plugs into Agent Fleet for human-in-the-loop approvals and Control Tower for full traceability, so research, review, and sign-off live in one governed flow.

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Data Chain of Custody

Scout’s goal is to maintain a clean chain of custody for every piece of information used. Here is how it works:

1. Set Guardrails: You define which domains are allowed and how fresh sources must be (e.g., "sec.gov, last 90 days"). These rules are enforced at run time via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
2. Run the Agent: Scout retrieves only approved sources, collapses mirrored content to a canonical link, and de-duplicates syndications so the record is not noisy.
3. Cite Precisely: Every claim is pinned to a SourceSnips™ citation. This includes the exact line or segment used, with URL, timestamp, and selector context evidence that you can actually review.
4. Export the Record: One click generates an evidence pack with permalinks, capture timestamps, integrity hashes, and an optional WARC snapshot reference for the chain of custody.
5. Approve and Operate: Reviewers use Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) checkpoints and Separation of Duties where required. Control Tower preserves the tamper-evident trail for audits and post-incident analysis.

This process ensures data provenance; the verifiable origin and history of the data is baked in, not bolted on. Captured pages are hashed so you can prove nothing changed between research and review, reducing your legal headaches instantly.

Why This Is Different: The Demo in Action

Scout treats governance and evidence as part of the research step, not an afterthought. In a quick demo, we show this difference firsthand:

• We start with a strict domain allowlist to show how off-policy domains are instantly refused, preventing hallucination.
• We re-run the same query under a 90-day time window to show how recency changes the result set and labeling.
• Finally, we export a full evidence pack, attach it to a Control Tower record, and rotate the allowlist via MCP. You watch the agent automatically re-plan its strategy under the new policy without ever breaking the audit trail.

Policy gates are enforced in-flow; citations are snippet-level; integrity artifacts are created automatically and everything runs inside your VPC with no external data retention.

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Bottom Line

Governed web access, not just answers.

Odyssey Scout lets your agents move quickly and stay verifiable: approved domains, time-bounded sources, precise SourceSnips™, and evidence packs your reviewers can sign. That’s how you keep speed, keep trust, and turn AI liability into AI confidence.

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