Sub-function
Corporate & Governance
Owns corporate action work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
69 / 100
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.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
7,927
Timetable vs actual
3.4h → 3.6h
Cost / unit
$6.03
was $15
Run-rate saving
$3.6M
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.
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.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Company Secretary when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Entity Register Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of corporate & governance inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Company Secretary when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Filing Calendar Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of corporate & governance inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Company Secretary when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Board Pack Assembly Agent
Executes the corporate & governance step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Company Secretary when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Minute Drafting Agent
Executes the corporate & governance step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Company Secretary when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Delegation of Authority Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in corporate & governance. 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.
Governance Policy Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in corporate & governance. 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.
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.
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 scenario work and strategy authoring review.
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.
Corporate & Governance Operating Position
Supersededv1What operating shape carries twice the current corporate action volume without adding headcount, and what breaks first if we are wrong?
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.
confidence
70%
The challenge — Corporate & Governance Challenger Agent
Corporate & Governance 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 9 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per corporate action 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 $36k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $763k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $695k to build controls | Override rate is 10 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $872k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LG3-POL-200 | Corporate & Governance Decision Envelope 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. binds 4 agents · EU · UK | envelope | Delegation of Authority Agent | Company Secretary | v1.2 | Active |
| LG3-POL-201 | Corporate & Governance 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 · Global | evidence | Delegation of Authority Agent | Company Secretary | v2.9 | Active |
| LG3-POL-202 | Corporate & Governance 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. Company Secretary owns the response clock. binds 4 agents · LATAM · US | escalation | Delegation of Authority Agent | Company Secretary | v3.8 | under review |