Hold the ceiling at A3 for contract lifecycle. In-policy paper is drafted, redlined and executed without a lawyer touching it. Anything off the fallback ladder routes to named counsel, because the exposure is contractual and permanent. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.

Hold the ceiling at A2 for commercial advisory. Agents draft the advice and the reasoning. Legal advice is privileged and relied upon, so a qualified human signs every answer that leaves the function. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.

Keep the repeatable advisory matter 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.

Hold the ceiling at A3 for corporate & governance. Assembly, calendaring and filing mechanics are automated. Minutes and authority changes are approved by named officers because they are the legal record of what the company decided. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.

Hold the ceiling at A3 for compliance & ethics. Screening and attestation run at scale without humans. Every sanctions hit and every ethics report is handled by a named person — an agent must never close a whistleblower case. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.

Hold the ceiling at A2 for regulatory affairs. Horizon scanning and impact mapping are continuous and agentic. Anything filed with a regulator is signed by an officer, because it binds the company. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the contract 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.

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.

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the advisory matter 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.

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.

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. Associate General Counsel, Commercial owns the response clock.

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the corporate action 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.