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Withdrawn by an owner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

RD1-AUTH-H1

Director, Discovery Research · Research & Development · Discovery Research

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 discovery research lines

Materiality cap

$2,000,000

Band

High

Jurisdictions

US · UK · DE · SG · AU

Delegated from

Research & Development leadership (Function leader)

Granted

2025-07-28

Expires

2027-01-21

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

RD1A-1020Cleared

Cleared scientist review

$160,000 · 2026-08-18

1 evidence record cite this grant.

11 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
RD6-AUTH-H1 Prototype & Pilot	Director, Product Development accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the prototype & pilot lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG	Research & Development leadership	2026-11-05	259	Active
RD4-AUTH-H1 Lab Operations	Director, Laboratory Operations accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the lab operations lines	$25,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Research & Development leadership	2027-02-06	24	Active
RD8-AUTH-H1 Regulatory Science	VP Regulatory Science accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the regulatory science lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Research & Development leadership	2026-10-10	98	Active
RD11-AUTH-H1 Portfolio Analytics	Director, R&D Analytics accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the portfolio analytics lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Research & Development leadership	2026-11-28	134	Active
RD2-AUTH-H1 Innovation Portfolio	VP Innovation accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the innovation portfolio lines	$250k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Research & Development leadership	2026-10-28	29	Active
RD7-AUTH-H1 IP Creation & Capture	Director, IP Capture accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the ip creation & capture lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR BR	Research & Development leadership	2027-03-03	230	Active
RD1-AUTH-H1 Discovery Research	Director, Discovery Research accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the discovery research lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU	Research & Development leadership	2027-01-21	92	Active
RD3-AUTH-H1 Experiment Design	Director, Research Methods accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the experiment design lines	$250k	US UK DE	Research & Development leadership	2027-02-24	22	Active
RD5-AUTH-H1 Data Science & Modeling	Director, Data Science accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the data science & modeling lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU FR	Research & Development leadership	2026-09-26	52	Active
RD9-AUTH-H1 External Collaboration	Director, External Innovation accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the external collaboration lines	$250k	US UK DE SG	Research & Development leadership	2027-04-04	52	Active
RD10-AUTH-H1 Technology Scouting	Director, Technology Scouting accountable-owner	Approve, override and release held work on the technology scouting lines	$2,000k	US UK DE SG AU	Research & Development leadership	2026-10-06	99	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.