Sub-function
Network
Owns network change work end to end inside Information Technology. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
71 / 100
Detection and known-fault remediation run without a human. Network configuration changes carry enterprise-wide blast radius, so peer review and a change board are mandatory.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
10,430
Timetable vs actual
18.7h → 15.5h
Cost / unit
$13
was $49
Run-rate saving
$19.6M
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.
Network Orchestrator
Owns the network lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Network Services when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Topology Monitoring Agent
Watches network continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Network Services when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Performance Agent
Executes the network step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Network Services when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Configuration Agent
Executes the network step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Network Services when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Circuit Management Agent
Executes the network step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Network Services when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Segmentation Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in network. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Network Policy Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in network. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Network Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for network. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.
ceiling A3 · 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.
Redeployed into cross-function process redesign.
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.
Network Operating Position
In challengev1Where should the autonomy ceiling for network sit over the next four quarters, and what evidence would justify moving it?
Hold the ceiling at A3 for network. Detection and known-fault remediation run without a human. Network configuration changes carry enterprise-wide blast radius, so peer review and a change board are mandatory. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
84%
The challenge — Network Challenger Agent
Network 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 9 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per network change 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 | $857k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1304k to build controls | Override rate is 4 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $166k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT5-POL-200 | Network Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the network change 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 3 agents · US · Canada | envelope | Segmentation Agent | Director, Network Services | v3.9 | under review |
| IT5-POL-201 | Network 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 3 agents · EU · UK · US | evidence | Segmentation Agent | Director, Network Services | v4.1 | Active |
| IT5-POL-202 | Network Escalation Rule Escalation is mandatory when confidence falls below the floor, when two options sit inside the confidence band, or when a break condition on a ratified position fires. Director, Network Services owns the response clock. binds 3 agents · LATAM · US | escalation | Segmentation Agent | Director, Network Services | v2.8 | Active |
| IT5-POL-203 | Network Autonomy Ceiling The ceiling for this lane is 82 on the platform scale. Detection and known-fault remediation run without a human. Network configuration changes carry enterprise-wide blast radius, so peer review and a change board are mandatory. The ceiling is a governance decision, not a technical limit, and only Director, Network Services can propose moving it. binds 3 agents · LATAM · US | ceiling | Segmentation Agent | Director, Network Services | v4.2 | Active |