Sub-function
IT Financial Management
Owns cost line work end to end inside Information Technology. Runs 3 lines across 14 stations, drains the repeatable share into the IT tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Estate rating
A
80 / 100
Cost attribution and showback are mechanical allocation work that agents do at full granularity. Sourcing model changes are ratified because they reshape the organization.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
70
Timetable vs actual
5.9d → 7.0d
Cost / unit
$754
was $2K
Run-rate saving
$4.9M
annualized at this volume
The 8 agents running this sub-function
Grouped by what they are for, not by where they sit. The agent org is process-shaped.
IT Finance Orchestrator
Owns the it financial management lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IT Financial Management when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Cost Attribution Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of it financial management inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IT Financial Management when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Vendor Spend Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of it financial management inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IT Financial Management when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Showback Agent
Executes the it financial management step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IT Financial Management when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Budget Tracking Agent
Executes the it financial management step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IT Financial Management when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Unit Cost Agent
Executes the it financial management step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IT Financial Management when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Sourcing Model Agent
Authors positions on it financial management. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them.
IT Financial Management Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for it financial management. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates when a ratified position is still running against a break condition it flagged.
Estate rating breakdown
Seven control dimensions. Judgment readiness runs against autonomy on purpose.
People
What the humans stopped doing, and what they do now.
Roles held flat; released hours absorbed volume growth rather than headcount reduction.
Lines running in this sub-function
Each line is a workflow. Click a line to walk it station by station.
Strategy positions this sub-function holds
An agent that only executes is a robot. These are the calls it made, the argument against each one, and what would prove it wrong.
Sourcing Model Position
In challengev4Should cost line work stay in the shared transaction spine, or come back inside the function where the context lives?
Hold the ceiling at A4 for it financial management. Cost attribution and showback are mechanical allocation work that agents do at full granularity. Sourcing model changes are ratified because they reshape the organization. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
77%
The challenge — IT Financial Management Challenger Agent
IT Financial Management Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 4 quarters of data from a period with no volume shock. The confidence band overlaps the alternative, and the position does not say what it would take to be wrong. Recorded as a dissent, not a block.
Break conditions
- ·Override rate rises above 15 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per cost line stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A control failure in this lane reaches a customer or a regulator
Evidence gaps
- ·No independent test of the control evidence behind the touchless rate
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $78k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1761k to build controls | Override rate is 11 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $1153k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
IT Financial Management Operating Position
Rejectedv2What operating shape carries twice the current cost line volume without adding headcount, and what breaks first if we are wrong?
Keep the repeatable cost line volume in the spine and pull the exception tail back into the function. The spine is cheaper per unit; the tail is where the context that prevents rework actually sits.
confidence
70%
The challenge — IT Financial Management Challenger Agent
IT Financial Management Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 4 quarters of data from a period with no volume shock. The confidence band overlaps the alternative, and the position does not say what it would take to be wrong. Recorded as a dissent, not a block.
Break conditions
- ·Override rate rises above 6 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per cost line stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A comparator publishes a materially lower unit cost on a like-for-like basis
Evidence gaps
- ·No independent test of the control evidence behind the touchless rate
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $252k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $924k to build controls | Override rate is 8 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $874k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
Policy register
The rules the agents above are bound by. Version, owner, approver, and the agents each rule constrains.
| Ref | Rule | Scope | Owner agent | Approved by | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT11-POL-200 | IT Financial Management Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the cost line sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. Outside it, the unit holds at a gate with a named approver and a running clock. binds 5 agents · LATAM · US | envelope | IT Finance Orchestrator | Director, IT Financial Management | v3.6 | Superseded |
| IT11-POL-201 | IT Financial Management Evidence Standard Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. An action with no evidence record is treated as a control failure, not a fast decision. binds 5 agents · APAC | evidence | IT Finance Orchestrator | Director, IT Financial Management | v1.5 | under review |