Delegated authority

Authority Register

Autonomy is only safe if somebody wrote down what each agent and each person is allowed to decide. This register is that document, and it is enforced: the decision route resolves a grant before it writes anything, and refuses when nothing covers the action.

Health

What the estate is currently allowed to do

Grants in force, who holds them, how often they are used and how often they are exceeded.

Grants

309

Across the estate

Active

309

Can authorize work now

Expired

Lapsed, needs renewal

Revoked

Withdrawn by an owner

Agent-held

154

Software may act alone

Human-held

155

A named person decides

Expiring 60d

Renew before the clock runs out

Breaches 30d

148

Attempts above the cap, refused

LG11-AUTH-A1

Legal Ops Orchestrator · Legal · Legal Ops & Spend

Any unit on a legal ops & spend line where every intake check passed, the policy in force is current, and the value sits inside the cap below.

Decision type

Clear and route work on the legal ops & spend lines

Materiality cap

$2,000,000

Band

High

Jurisdictions

US · UK · DE · SG · AU · FR

Delegated from

Director, Legal Operations (Accountable human owner)

Granted

2026-01-21

Expires

2027-05-10

Uses, last 30 days

1461

Cap breaches, 30 days

Conditions attached

Confidence at or above the line threshold, otherwise the unit is held.
Policy version in force must be current, not superseded.
Every action writes to the evidence spine before the unit advances.

If the cap is exceededThe action is refused at the decision interface, a refusal record is written to the spine, and the unit routes to the accountable human owner.

Recent use in the evidence spine

LG11B-1022In progress

Holding at detect reusable work

$26,000 · 2026-08-18

LG11B-1002In progress

Holding at detect reusable work

$52,000 · 2026-08-18

LG11B-1010Held

Holding at draft template

$36,000 · 2026-08-18

LG11A-1004In progress

Holding at ingest

$1,200,000 · 2026-08-18

LG11A-1024In progress

Holding at categorize

$1,400,000 · 2026-08-18

LG11B-1010Cleared

Cleared anonymize

$36,000 · 2026-08-18

LG11A-1020In progress

Holding at detect anomaly

$2,300,000 · 2026-08-18

LG11B-1010Cleared

Cleared detect reusable work

$36,000 · 2026-08-18

24 evidence records cite this grant.

22 grants

Select any row to see the conditions, the delegation chain and how it has been used

Low 31Medium 104High 123Critical 51

Reference	Holder	Decision type	Cap	Jurisdictions	Delegated from	Expires	Uses 30d	Status
LG5-AUTH-A1 Regulatory Affairs	Regulatory Affairs Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the regulatory affairs lines	$250k	US UK DE	VP Regulatory Affairs	2027-03-04	2499	Active
LG5-AUTH-H1 Regulatory Affairs	VP Regulatory Affairs accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the regulatory affairs lines	$2,000k	US UK DE	Legal leadership	2026-09-30	227	Active
LG8-AUTH-A1 Employment Legal	Employment Legal Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the employment legal lines	$25k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Associate General Counsel, Employment	2026-09-29	182	Active
LG8-AUTH-H1 Employment Legal	Associate General Counsel, Employment accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the employment legal lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Legal leadership	2027-07-19	28	Active
LG2-AUTH-A1 Commercial Advisory	Commercial Advisory Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the commercial advisory lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Associate General Counsel, Commercial	2026-11-17	2717	Active
LG2-AUTH-H1 Commercial Advisory	Associate General Counsel, Commercial accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the commercial advisory lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Legal leadership	2026-10-29	142	Active
LG4-AUTH-A1 Compliance & Ethics	Compliance Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the compliance & ethics lines	$250k	US UK DE SG	Chief Compliance Officer	2027-01-30	3657	Active
LG4-AUTH-H1 Compliance & Ethics	Chief Compliance Officer accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the compliance & ethics lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG	Legal leadership	2027-01-11	237	Active
LG6-AUTH-A1 IP Portfolio	IP Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the ip portfolio lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Chief IP Counsel	2027-06-14	456	Active
LG6-AUTH-H1 IP Portfolio	Chief IP Counsel accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the ip portfolio lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Legal leadership	2026-12-05	195	Active
LG10-AUTH-A1 Outside Counsel Management	Outside Counsel Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the outside counsel management lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU	Director, Legal Operations	2027-02-20	2177	Active
LG10-AUTH-H1 Outside Counsel Management	Director, Legal Operations accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the outside counsel management lines	$25,000k	US UK DE SG AU	Legal leadership	2027-04-10	259	Active
LG11-AUTH-A1 Legal Ops & Spend	Legal Ops Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the legal ops & spend lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Director, Legal Operations	2027-05-10	1461	Active
LG11-AUTH-H1 Legal Ops & Spend	Director, Legal Operations accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the legal ops & spend lines	$25,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Legal leadership	2027-04-29	92	Active
LG1-AUTH-A1 Contract Lifecycle	Contract Lifecycle Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the contract lifecycle lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Director, Commercial Contracts	2027-05-25	3693	Active
LG1-AUTH-H1 Contract Lifecycle	Director, Commercial Contracts accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the contract lifecycle lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Legal leadership	2026-10-31	94	Active
LG3-AUTH-A1 Corporate & Governance	Corporate Secretariat Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the corporate & governance lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Company Secretary	2027-05-30	3699	Active
LG3-AUTH-H1 Corporate & Governance	Company Secretary accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the corporate & governance lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Legal leadership	2027-06-02	133	Active
LG7-AUTH-A1 Litigation & Disputes	Litigation Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the litigation & disputes lines	$25k	US UK DE SG AU	VP Litigation	2027-03-07	2385	Active
LG7-AUTH-H1 Litigation & Disputes	VP Litigation accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the litigation & disputes lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU	Legal leadership	2027-01-31	148	Active
LG9-AUTH-A1 Privacy & Data Protection	Privacy Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the privacy & data protection lines	$25k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Data Protection Officer	2026-11-09	3216	Active
LG9-AUTH-H1 Privacy & Data Protection	Data Protection Officer accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the privacy & data protection lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Legal leadership	2027-05-06	55	Active

How the register is enforced

Not a wall chart

When a decision is recorded, the route resolves a grant first: the right function, the right holder kind, an active status, a cap at or above the value at stake, and the jurisdiction of the work. If no grant covers all five, the route returns a refusal and writes a refusal record into the evidence spine. The decision does not happen.

Refusals are evidence in their own right. A cap breach that was stopped is worth more to an examiner than a clean run, because it shows the control fires.

Expiry is a real state, not a label. An expired grant authorizes nothing, which is why the sixty-day expiry tile matters more than the active count.

What is still missing

Say it before an examiner does

The holder identity on a grant is a name, not a cryptographic identity. Nothing here proves the actor was the actor. Signed agent identity and attestation are separate work and are not built.

The persona a user is browsing under is chosen in the interface and is not yet an identity the server trusts. The register is enforced against the value and the function; it is not yet enforced against a verified caller.

Delegation is one hop deep. A real board delegation chain runs several levels, with sub-delegation rules and counter-signatures. That depth is modeled as a single delegated-from field here.

Actions

What is waiting on a person

A grant is a written permission with an expiry, a cap and a named delegator. Nothing below renews itself.

Renew or let a grant lapse

Expires within ninety days. On expiry the holder falls back to asking.

Explain a grant that was exceeded

148 attempts beyond the cap in the last thirty days across these grants.

Withdraw a permission nobody uses

Granted and never exercised. Unused authority is still authority.

Nothing else is pending

Every other grant is inside its cap and inside its term.

Operations

What this desk is allowed to start

A surface that only reports is not operable. This is the work this page can set in motion, and the bound it runs into.

Trigger and bound

This desk can grant, narrow, extend or revoke a permission, and every one of those is written to the spine with the person who did it. It cannot let a holder act above the materiality cap on the grant: an attempt above the cap is refused at the point of decision and recorded as a breach rather than allowed and flagged afterwards.

Live observability

What the record shows right now

Grants split almost evenly between agents and people. 352,403 uses in the last thirty days produced 148 attempts above cap.

Current distribution

309 grants

Held by an agent15450%

Held by a person15550%

Is policy and strategy coming to fruition

Whether the written intent is holding here

148 cap breaches against 352,403 uses — 0% of exercised authority went past its bound.

Not holding on the record

The policy position is that no actor, agent or human, may commit the company past a stated value without a named delegator standing behind it. The record shows 309 active grants and 148 attempts above cap in thirty days, every one refused at the point of decision rather than allowed and reported later. That is the intent working. The part that is not proven is the ceiling itself: the caps were set by this team, not benchmarked against loss experience, so a grant being inside its cap says the rule held, not that the rule is right.