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Withdrawn by an owner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

MK8-AUTH-H1

Director, Field Marketing · Marketing · Field & Events

Anything the agent grant refuses, plus any override of an agent outcome. An override must state what the agent concluded and why it is being set aside.

Decision type

Approve, override and release held work on the field & events lines

Materiality cap

$2,000,000

Band

High

Jurisdictions

US · UK · DE

Delegated from

Marketing leadership (Function leader)

Granted

2025-07-04

Expires

2026-10-06

Uses, last 30 days

Cap breaches, 30 days

Conditions attached

Cannot approve a unit the same person raised.
Override requires a written rationale citing the policy clause relied on.
Expiry is enforced, not advisory: an expired grant refuses.

If the cap is exceededThe action is refused and routed to the function leader with the attempted decision recorded.

Recent use in the evidence spine

MK8A-1006Cleared

Cleared budget approve

$84,000 · 2026-08-18

MK8A-1022Cleared

Cleared budget approve

$10,000 · 2026-08-18

MK8A-1049Cleared

Cleared budget approve

$63,000 · 2026-08-18

MK8A-1039Cleared

Cleared budget approve

$47,000 · 2026-08-18

MK8A-1013Cleared

Cleared budget approve

$47,000 · 2026-08-18

MK8A-1016In progress

Holding at budget approve

$19,000 · 2026-08-18

6 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
MK2-AUTH-A1 Market & Competitive Intelligence	Market Intelligence Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the market & competitive intelligence lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Director, Market Intelligence	2027-04-30	1625	Active
MK2-AUTH-H1 Market & Competitive Intelligence	Director, Market Intelligence accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the market & competitive intelligence lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Marketing leadership	2027-04-13	246	Active
MK3-AUTH-A1 Demand Generation	Demand Gen Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the demand generation lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU	VP Demand Generation	2027-06-06	2080	Active
MK3-AUTH-H1 Demand Generation	VP Demand Generation accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the demand generation lines	$25,000k	US UK DE SG AU	Marketing leadership	2027-07-23	146	Active
MK1-AUTH-A1 Brand & Positioning	Brand Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the brand & positioning lines	$25k	US UK DE SG	VP Brand	2026-10-29	2972	Active
MK1-AUTH-H1 Brand & Positioning	VP Brand accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the brand & positioning lines	$250k	US UK DE SG	Marketing leadership	2026-12-08	192	Active
MK8-AUTH-A1 Field & Events	Events Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the field & events lines	$250k	US UK DE	Director, Field Marketing	2026-10-03	2196	Active
MK8-AUTH-H1 Field & Events	Director, Field Marketing accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the field & events lines	$2,000k	US UK DE	Marketing leadership	2026-10-06	11	Active
MK9-AUTH-A1 Customer Advocacy	Advocacy Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the customer advocacy lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Director, Customer Advocacy	2026-10-12	820	Active
MK9-AUTH-H1 Customer Advocacy	Director, Customer Advocacy accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the customer advocacy lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Marketing leadership	2026-10-31	12	Active
MK4-AUTH-A1 Content Studio	Content Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the content studio lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Director, Content	2027-01-23	3628	Active
MK4-AUTH-H1 Content Studio	Director, Content accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the content studio lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Marketing leadership	2027-03-27	252	Active
MK5-AUTH-A1 Campaign Orchestration	Campaign Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the campaign orchestration lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG	Director, Campaign Operations	2027-03-01	1804	Active
MK5-AUTH-H1 Campaign Orchestration	Director, Campaign Operations accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the campaign orchestration lines	$25,000k	US UK DE SG	Marketing leadership	2027-02-08	126	Active
MK6-AUTH-A1 Digital & Web	Digital Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the digital & web lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU	Director, Digital Experience	2027-02-14	3045	Active
MK6-AUTH-H1 Digital & Web	Director, Digital Experience accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the digital & web lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU	Marketing leadership	2027-03-10	190	Active
MK7-AUTH-A1 Product Marketing	Product Marketing Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the product marketing lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR	VP Product Marketing	2027-01-03	1944	Active
MK7-AUTH-H1 Product Marketing	VP Product Marketing accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the product marketing lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Marketing leadership	2026-12-04	182	Active
MK10-AUTH-A1 Marketing Ops & MarTech	Marketing Ops Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the marketing ops & martech lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Director, Marketing Operations	2026-12-13	2654	Active
MK10-AUTH-H1 Marketing Ops & MarTech	Director, Marketing Operations accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the marketing ops & martech lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Marketing leadership	2027-06-21	178	Active
MK11-AUTH-A1 Attribution & Analytics	Marketing Analytics Orchestrator orchestrator	Clear and route work on the attribution & analytics lines	$25k	US UK DE SG AU	Director, Marketing Analytics	2027-04-18	3123	Active
MK11-AUTH-H1 Attribution & Analytics	Director, Marketing Analytics accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the attribution & analytics lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU	Marketing leadership	2027-02-09	203	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.