LensReading which lens this session carries.

Human in the loop

Every decision an agent refused to take alone

An escalation is not a failure.

Health

What has been handed to a person

Escalations by tier and status, with how long the oldest have been waiting.

ESC-LG112tier-1OpenLitigation & Disputes

Litigation & Disputes: LG7A-1004 held at counsel instruct

Matter at counsel instruct valued at $13k stopped on a novel pattern.

waiting on a person

10h 40m

SLA 8h 18m · breached

What the agent recommends

VP Litigation recommends rejecting and returning to the requester with the gap named.

Confidence 52 percent. The comparable population is 670 units

Options put in front of the human, already costed

Approve as recommendedClears in 22 minutes. Accepts the named residual risk.$13k
Approve with conditionClears with a compensating control and a follow-up check in 30 days.$13k
Reject and returnReturns to Maeve Muller. Adds 9 days of cycle time.$0
Pause the laneHolds 88 units behind this one. Use only if the cause is systemic.high
Marcus Rhodes · VP Litigation trigger novel pattern blast radius 71 unitsmateriality lowreturn path: Resolution writes back to LG7A at the holding station. The unit resumes without re-running cleared stages.LG7A-1004 line map
ESC-LG113tier-1AcknowledgedEmployment Legal

Employment Legal: LG8B-1006 held at jurisdiction test

Employment matter at jurisdiction test valued at $15k stopped on a novel pattern.

waiting on a person

7h 29m

SLA 44m · breached

What the agent recommends

Termination Risk Agent recommends pausing the lane until the upstream data defect is fixed.

Confidence 94 percent. The comparable population is 549 units

Options put in front of the human, already costed

Approve as recommendedClears in 32 minutes. Accepts the named residual risk.$15k
Approve with conditionClears with a compensating control and a follow-up check in 30 days.$15k
Reject and returnReturns to Oscar Bianchi. Adds 5 days of cycle time.$0
Pause the laneHolds 50 units behind this one. Use only if the cause is systemic.high
Marcus Achebe · Associate General Counsel, Employment trigger novel pattern blast radius 38 unitsmateriality lowreturn path: Resolution writes back to LG8B at the holding station. The unit resumes without re-running cleared stages.LG8B-1006 line map
ESC-SC123tier-1Returned to agentNetwork Design

Network Design: SC10A-1006 held at draft position

Network study at draft position valued at $15.7m stopped on a novel pattern.

waiting on a person

8h 8m

SLA 1d 11h

What the agent recommends

Carbon Modeling Agent recommends approving a partial and holding the remainder.

Confidence 88 percent. The comparable population is 806 units

Options put in front of the human, already costed

Approve as recommendedClears in 13 minutes. Accepts the named residual risk.$15.7m
Approve with conditionClears with a compensating control and a follow-up check in 30 days.$15.7m
Reject and returnReturns to Aaron Whitfield. Adds 5 days of cycle time.$0
Pause the laneHolds 99 units behind this one. Use only if the cause is systemic.high
Beatriz Okafor · VP Supply Chain Strategy trigger novel pattern blast radius 7 unitsmateriality criticalreturn path: Resolution writes back to SC10A at the holding station. The unit resumes without re-running cleared stages.SC10A-1006 line map

Returned with a corrected policy version. The lane re-ran it without a human.

ESC-FI138tier-1ResolvedInvestor Relations Support

Investor Relations Support: FI9C-1005 held at frame

Disclosure item at frame valued at $3m stopped on a segregation of duties.

waiting on a person

13h 6m

SLA 23h 42m

What the agent recommends

Consensus Tracking Agent recommends pausing the lane until the upstream data defect is fixed.

Confidence 80 percent. The comparable population is 102 units

Options put in front of the human, already costed

Approve as recommendedClears in 26 minutes. Accepts the named residual risk.$3m
Approve with conditionClears with a compensating control and a follow-up check in 30 days.$3m
Reject and returnReturns to Idris Lindqvist. Adds 7 days of cycle time.$0
Pause the laneHolds 137 units behind this one. Use only if the cause is systemic.high
Simon Baptiste · VP Investor Relations trigger segregation of duties blast radius 10 unitsmateriality highreturn path: Resolution writes back to FI9C at the holding station. The unit resumes without re-running cleared stages.FI9C-1005 line map

Approved with a compensating control after 166 minutes.

ESC-AD151tier-1Returned to agentEnvironment Health & Safety

Environment Health & Safety: AD8C-1001 held at challenge

Safety case at challenge valued at $11.4m stopped on a novel pattern.

waiting on a person

20h 28m

SLA 1d 16h

What the agent recommends

Regulatory Reporting Agent recommends approving with the compensating control attached.

Confidence 97 percent. The comparable population is 281 units

Options put in front of the human, already costed

Approve as recommendedClears in 13 minutes. Accepts the named residual risk.$11.4m
Approve with conditionClears with a compensating control and a follow-up check in 30 days.$11.4m
Reject and returnReturns to Amara Achebe. Adds 6 days of cycle time.$0
Pause the laneHolds 236 units behind this one. Use only if the cause is systemic.high
Clara Costa · Head of EHS trigger novel pattern blast radius 12 unitsmateriality criticalreturn path: Resolution writes back to AD8C at the holding station. The unit resumes without re-running cleared stages.AD8C-1001 line map

Returned with a corrected policy version. The lane re-ran it without a human.

The number worth watching on this page is not how many escalations there are. It is how many are past SLA. A queue of well-formed escalations sitting on a human's desk is the most common way an agentic operating model quietly stops delivering: the agents got faster, the approval layer did not, and the cycle time moved from the process to the person.

Actions

What is waiting on a person

An escalation is an agent saying it will not decide this.

Operations

What this desk is allowed to start

A surface that only reports is not operable.

Trigger and bound

This desk can start an escalation, route it to a tier, and record the answer it receives.

Live observability

What the record shows right now

Where every escalation ever raised currently sits.

Current distribution

56 escalations

Resolved1018%
Returned to agent1120%
Acknowledged1120%
Open2443%

Is policy and strategy coming to fruition

Whether the written intent is holding here

10 of 56 escalations have been answered. 35 are still waiting on a person.

Not holding on the record

The design position is that an agent stopping is a healthy outcome, provided a person answers quickly.