Least authority
Each workflow receives only the data and action permissions required for its bounded purpose.
Enterprise trust comes from visible boundaries—not from asking people to trust a model more.
Map this opportunity →Operational AI becomes risky when access is broad, approvals are implicit, evidence is missing, exceptions have no owner or rollback is undefined.
Each layer has a clear purpose, boundary and decision owner.
Each workflow receives only the data and action permissions required for its bounded purpose.
Keep the incoming record, extracted fields, validation results, decisions and system response linked.
Define who receives ambiguous, conflicting, high-value or policy-blocked work—and by when.
Design idempotency, retries, compensating actions and manual recovery before production execution.
Rules decide whether work can proceed, pause or enter review.
Material ambiguity and high-risk actions enter a controlled state.
Decision context, action and outcome remain visible.
Every material action needs a visible decision path: what the model understood, what policy allowed, who approved, what system changed and whether the intended outcome was achieved.