About CHURPRIMO™
Continuity governance, built to run.
CHURPRIMO™ is the inline runtime implementation of continuity governance, built by Sughero Systems. It evaluates whether a running system is still the system that was deployed.
In short
Plenty of people do governance. Nobody governs continuity: whether a running system is still the system that was deployed. CHURPRIMO™ is the runtime layer that does, built and operated by Sughero Systems.
The Overview covers the problem and the category. How It Works covers where it sits in the stack and what it evaluates.
Where we are
CHURPRIMO™ is in active development. It runs every day on Sughero Systems’ own team of agents, and we are preparing first pilot deployments with design partners.
- Patent pending.
- CHURPRIMO™ is a trademark of Sughero Systems.
- Presented at the AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium on Mechanistic Approaches to Safe and Secure AI Systems.
- Pre-publication manuscript below.
Autonomous Systems Don’t Fail Suddenly: Runtime Governance for Autonomous Systems
Kathryn Louise Sughero · Pre-publication manuscript · 2026
This paper presents the conceptual foundation for continuity governance in autonomous systems, examining how continuity, drift, rupture, and recovery emerge across changing runtime states.
Prepared for publication in the MASST proceedings. The final published version and citation will be added when available.
Read pre-publication manuscript© 2026 Kathryn Louise Sughero
Where it comes from
CHURPRIMO™ grew out of research at Sughero Systems into how any system that learns and changes stays itself under pressure. CHURPRIMO is that research made to run.
Etymology
CHURPRIMO is not an acronym.
"CHUR" comes from New Zealand slang, a signal of recognition and alignment: I see you. We’re aligned. Continue.
That is the system’s job: recognize that the agent is still itself, keep checking while it runs, and say so when it starts to drift.
"PRIMO" comes from New Zealand slang, a signal of quality and primacy: excellent, top-notch, of the highest order.
This is the first-order layer: the one responsible for continuity across everything else that is running.
Recognition, and the layer that keeps checking it holds.
Talk to us
To see the runtime layer evaluate one of your agents, to explore a design-partner fit, or to discuss the research: