Causum Announces Mars® and Launches Free Key Decision Mapping Program

AI governance platform offers complimentary decision inventory as CCPA and EU AI Act compliance deadlines approach

Published on Feb. 24, 2026

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Causum, an AI governance infrastructure company, has announced the launch of its Mars® platform and a free Key Decision-Making Authority (KDMA) program. Mars® is a decision-time AI governance platform that enforces organizational knowledge against AI decisions before execution, using ontologically structured knowledge graphs. The KDMA program offers the first 25 qualifying organizations a structured inventory of the decisions their AI systems make or support, at no cost. This comes as new regulations, such as the CCPA's automated decision-making technology rules and the EU AI Act, mandate proof of what decisions AI makes, what governs them, and that human oversight is operationalized.

Why it matters

The new regulations require enterprises to prove safeguards around AI decision-making that can withstand independent audit. Current AI governance tools monitor models and their behavior, but do not formalize the decisions themselves - what each decision requires, what criteria govern it, what evidence supports it, and who holds authority over it. Causum's Mars platform aims to address this gap by enforcing organizational knowledge against AI decisions before execution, which could help enterprises meet the new compliance requirements.

The details

Causum's Mars platform uses ontologically structured knowledge graphs in a specialized runtime to enforce organizational knowledge against AI decisions before execution. In benchmarking, Mars demonstrated 82% mean accuracy across 900 evaluations, outperforming retrieval-augmented generation and zero-shot language models. The free KDMA program will provide the first 25 qualifying organizations in regulated industries with a structured inventory of the decisions their AI systems make or support, which Causum says typically costs $15,000-$150,000 in consulting engagements.

  • The CCPA's automated decision-making technology (ADMT) rules take effect on January 1, 2026, with core compliance obligations required by January 1, 2027.
  • The EU AI Act mandates continuous, systematic risk management for high-risk AI systems by August 2026.

The players

Causum

An AI governance infrastructure company that builds platforms to enforce organizational authority at decision-time.

Reza Fatahi, Ph.D.

The founder and CEO of Causum, who co-authored multiple patents on AI security and peer-reviewed publications in cybersecurity, and was an early member of teams behind successful acquisitions and a pending Nasdaq listing.

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What they’re saying

“The governance market built an entire industry around watching AI after it decides. That is an autopsy, not governance.”

— Reza Fatahi, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Causum

What’s next

Organizations can apply for the free KDMA program at causum.com/kdma.

The takeaway

Causum's Mars platform and KDMA program aim to help enterprises meet the new regulatory requirements around AI decision-making by formalizing the decisions themselves and enforcing organizational knowledge before AI execution, which current governance tools have failed to address.