Function cockpit

Legal

Agents draft, extract and verify. Lawyers hold judgment and privilege.

Autonomy0% / 78%

Phase: Phase 2 — Bounded execution

Industrialize intake, drafting, obligation monitoring and regulatory sensing so legal attention concentrates on judgment, privilege, negotiation and representation.

Trust score

Touchless

Human review

Override rate

Capacity released

30-50% released legal-operating capacity (not autonomous legal judgment)

Accountable human

General Counsel

CoS agent: Legal Chief of Staff

Strategy, policy, observe, workflow, and AI GBS side by side

Five layers

What Legal actually runs

A function is not one thing. more

Strategy

16 agents

Agents that take positions, argue them, and get held to the outcome.

15 positions on the record

6 ratified, 0 in challenge

Policy

11 agents

The written rules every other agent is bound by, with version and owner.

34 binding rules

28 active, 6 superseded or retired

Observe

14 agents

Continuous sensing of the outside world and of the agents themselves.

14 watchers running

They watch the outside world and the agents themselves

Workflow

38 agents

Doing the work: lines, stations, and live units moving through them.

33 lines, 173 live units

9 held for a person right now

AI GBS

13 agents

Repeatable transaction processing run once for the whole enterprise.

1 shared towers

54 stations on this function run inside AI GBS

Strategy layer — positions on the record

Every position names its author, the agent paid to argue against it, and the conditions that would break it.

Contract Lifecycle Operating Position

Superseded

Hold the ceiling at A3 for contract lifecycle. more

author Contract Lifecycle Orchestratorchallenged by Contract Lifecycle Challenger Agentratifier Director, Commercial Contractsconfidence 62%

Deal Structure Review

Rejected

Hold the ceiling at A2 for commercial advisory. more

author Deal Structure Agentchallenged by Commercial Advisory Challenger Agentratifier Associate General Counsel, Commercialconfidence 76%

Commercial Advisory Operating Position

Ratified

Keep the repeatable advisory matter volume in the spine and pull the exception tail back into the function. more

author Legal Doctrine Agentchallenged by Commercial Advisory Challenger Agentratifier Associate General Counsel, Commercialconfidence 71%outcome held

Corporate & Governance Operating Position

Superseded

Hold the ceiling at A3 for corporate & governance. more

author Corporate Secretariat Orchestratorchallenged by Corporate & Governance Challenger Agentratifier Company Secretaryconfidence 70%

Compliance & Ethics Operating Position

Ratified

Hold the ceiling at A3 for compliance & ethics. more

author Compliance Orchestratorchallenged by Compliance & Ethics Challenger Agentratifier Chief Compliance Officerconfidence 76%outcome held

Regulatory Stance Position

Ratified

Hold the ceiling at A2 for regulatory affairs. more

author Regulatory Stance Agentchallenged by Regulatory Affairs Challenger Agentratifier VP Regulatory Affairsconfidence 62%outcome held

15 positions across 11 sub-functions. Open a sub-function to see dissent, alternatives considered, and break conditions.

Policy layer — what binds the agents

Versioned rules with an owning agent, a human approver, and the agents they constrain.

Contract Lifecycle Decision Envelope

vv3.8

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the contract sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. more

owner Fallback Position Agentapproved by Director, Commercial ContractsEU · UK · USbinds 6 agents

Contract Lifecycle Evidence Standard

vv3.2

Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. more

owner Fallback Position Agentapproved by Director, Commercial ContractsUS · Canadabinds 6 agents

Commercial Advisory Decision Envelope

vv5.0

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the advisory matter sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. more

owner Commercial Advisory Orchestratorapproved by Associate General Counsel, CommercialLATAM · USbinds 4 agents

Commercial Advisory Evidence Standard

vv4.2

Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. more

owner Commercial Advisory Orchestratorapproved by Associate General Counsel, CommercialLATAM · USbinds 4 agents

Commercial Advisory Escalation Rule

vv4.9

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. more

owner Commercial Advisory Orchestratorapproved by Associate General Counsel, CommercialAPACbinds 4 agents

Corporate & Governance Decision Envelope

vv1.2

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the corporate action sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. more

owner Delegation of Authority Agentapproved by Company SecretaryEU · UKbinds 4 agents

34 rules in the register. An agent cannot act outside the version in force.

Workflow layer — the lines doing the work

Each line is a workflow. more

111 in time53 late9 late and material

Line	Sub-function	Kind	Units / wk	Touchless	Timetable	Actual	Stations
LG1A Standard Agreement	Contract Lifecycle	transactional	6,513	77%	9.0h	9.5h	9
LG1B Non-standard Agreement	Contract Lifecycle	transactional	2,223	84%	4.9h	5.4h	7
LG1C Obligation Monitoring	Contract Lifecycle	transactional	2,484	83%	3.6h	3.9h	4
LG2A Advisory Request	Commercial Advisory	transactional	6,513	61%	16.4h	21.0h	7
LG2B Deal Structure Review	Commercial Advisory	judgment	2	25%	579.8h	534.1h	6
LG2C Precedent Library Build	Commercial Advisory	transactional	7,699	65%	2.9h	3.3h	5
LG3A Board Meeting Cycle	Corporate & Governance	transactional	4,042	72%	1.7h	2.0h	7
LG3B Statutory Filing	Corporate & Governance	transactional	625	65%	25.0h	23.8h	6
LG3C Authority Register Update	Corporate & Governance	transactional	3,260	75%	1.3h	1.6h	5
LG4A Annual Attestation Cycle	Compliance & Ethics	transactional	6,407	76%	13.1h	14.6h	6
LG4B Third-party Screening	Compliance & Ethics	transactional	6,427	75%	22.8h	27.1h	6
LG4C Ethics Case Intake	Compliance & Ethics	transactional	3,510	75%	17.1h	17.2h	6
LG5A Regulatory Change Response	Regulatory Affairs	transactional	5,001	67%	7.9h	9.9h	7
LG5B Regulator Submission	Regulatory Affairs	transactional	7,243	66%	10.7h	8.1h	6
LG5C Regulatory Stance Position	Regulatory Affairs	judgment	1	35%	372.6h	278.7h	6
LG6A Invention to Filing	IP Portfolio	transactional	2,792	69%	24.6h	19.9h	7
LG6B Annuity & Renewal	IP Portfolio	transactional	7,581	68%	15.0h	12.5h	6
LG6C Portfolio Strategy Position	IP Portfolio	judgment	1	41%	138.0h	152.3h	6
LG7A Matter Lifecycle	Litigation & Disputes	transactional	5,697	54%	10.1h	7.8h	8
LG7B Discovery Production	Litigation & Disputes	transactional	4,774	62%	5.3h	6.7h	6
LG7C Settlement Position	Litigation & Disputes	judgment	4	16%	790.8h	980.7h	6
LG8A Employment Advisory	Employment Legal	transactional	5,792	56%	17.1h	14.4h	6
LG8B Termination Clearance	Employment Legal	transactional	4,773	56%	20.1h	22.5h	6
LG8C Collective Consultation	Employment Legal	judgment	2	25%	124.7h	110.7h	7
LG9A Data Subject Request	Privacy & Data Protection	transactional	3,199	65%	19.3h	14.4h	7
LG9B Privacy Impact Assessment	Privacy & Data Protection	transactional	1,057	72%	20.1h	16.8h	7
LG9C Breach Response	Privacy & Data Protection	transactional	1,669	65%	9.5h	7.5h	7
LG10A Matter Assignment	Outside Counsel Management	transactional	2,272	82%	1.5h	1.5h	6
LG10B Invoice Review	Outside Counsel Management	transactional	5,720	87%	23.7h	23.0h	6
LG10C Panel Review	Outside Counsel Management	analytical	36	59%	150.8h	129.2h	4
LG11A Spend Read	Legal Ops & Spend	analytical	41	62%	210.2h	174.8h	5
LG11B Knowledge Capture	Legal Ops & Spend	transactional	672	89%	21.5h	20.5h	5
LG11C Capacity Rebalance	Legal Ops & Spend	analytical	60	72%	205.2h	194.2h	4

Observe layer — the watchers

Sensing agents and the agents that supervise other agents.

Contract Lifecycle Orchestrator

Owns the contract lifecycle lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.

A396%

Contract Lifecycle Challenger Agent

Adversarial reviewer for contract lifecycle. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.

A292%

Commercial Advisory Orchestrator

Owns the commercial advisory lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.

A294%

Commercial Advisory Challenger Agent

Adversarial reviewer for commercial advisory. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.

A289%

Corporate Secretariat Orchestrator

Owns the corporate & governance lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.

A397%

Corporate & Governance Challenger Agent

Adversarial reviewer for corporate & governance. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.

A294%

Compliance Orchestrator

Owns the compliance & ethics lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.

A391%

Compliance & Ethics Challenger Agent

Adversarial reviewer for compliance & ethics. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.

A296%

AI GBS layer — the shared spine

Repeatable transaction processing does not belong to this function. more

Open towers

legal60,784 units / wk routed

Contract Lifecycle · Corporate & Governance · Compliance & Ethics · Employment Legal · Privacy & Data Protection · Outside Counsel Management · Legal Ops & Spend

Stations running inside AI GBS

54 of 202 stations(27% of the function's stations)

Read this page as the honest answer to “what would an 80% agentic Legal look like?” The strategy and policy layers are where the argument happens. The workflow and AI GBS layers are where the volume goes. The observe layer is the only reason the other four can be trusted.

Sub-function breakdown