Sub-function
Commercial Advisory
Owns advisory matter work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
69 / 100
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.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
14,214
Timetable vs actual
9.2h → 11.5h
Cost / unit
$7.32
was $19
Run-rate saving
$8.7M
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.
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.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Commercial when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Question Triage Agent
Executes the commercial advisory step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Commercial when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Precedent Retrieval Agent
Executes the commercial advisory step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Commercial when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Risk Framing Agent
Executes the commercial advisory step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Commercial when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Advice Drafting Agent
Executes the commercial advisory step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to Associate General Counsel, Commercial when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Deal Structure Agent
Authors positions on commercial advisory. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them.
Legal Doctrine Agent
Authors positions on commercial advisory. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them.
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.
ceiling A2 · 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.
Deal Structure Review
Rejectedv1Is the current cost per advisory matter defensible against external comparators once inference spend is counted in full?
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.
confidence
76%
The challenge — Commercial Advisory Challenger Agent
Commercial Advisory Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 5 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 13 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per advisory matter stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A control failure in this lane reaches a customer or a regulator
Evidence gaps
- ·No external comparator on a like-for-like unit definition
- ·Exception cases under $55k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $670k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1767k 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 | $467k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
Commercial Advisory Operating Position
Ratifiedv1Which parts of commercial advisory should deliberately stay human, and how do we defend that against a cost argument?
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.
confidence
71%
The challenge — Commercial Advisory Challenger Agent
Commercial Advisory 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 advisory matter stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A comparator publishes a materially lower unit cost on a like-for-like basis
Evidence gaps
- ·No external comparator on a like-for-like unit definition
- ·Exception cases under $22k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $304k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | not selected |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $793k to build controls | Override rate is 5 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $336k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | selected |
Ratified 5 months ago. Measured since: cost per advisory matter fell 14 percent against a forecast of 10 percent.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LG2-POL-200 | Commercial Advisory Decision Envelope 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. binds 4 agents · LATAM · US | envelope | Commercial Advisory Orchestrator | Associate General Counsel, Commercial | v5.0 | Active |
| LG2-POL-201 | Commercial Advisory 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 4 agents · LATAM · US | evidence | Commercial Advisory Orchestrator | Associate General Counsel, Commercial | v4.2 | Superseded |
| LG2-POL-202 | Commercial Advisory 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. Associate General Counsel, Commercial owns the response clock. binds 4 agents · APAC | escalation | Commercial Advisory Orchestrator | Associate General Counsel, Commercial | v4.9 | Active |