Sub-function
Regulatory Affairs
Owns regulatory item work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
70 / 100
Horizon scanning and impact mapping are continuous and agentic. Anything filed with a regulator is signed by an officer, because it binds the company.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
12,245
Timetable vs actual
9.6h → 8.9h
Cost / unit
$2.76
was $8.08
Run-rate saving
$3.4M
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.
Regulatory Affairs Orchestrator
Owns the regulatory affairs lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Affairs when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Horizon Scanning Agent
Executes the regulatory affairs step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Affairs when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Impact Assessment Agent
Executes the regulatory affairs step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Affairs when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Submission Drafting Agent
Executes the regulatory affairs step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Affairs when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Regulator Correspondence Agent
Executes the regulatory affairs step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Affairs when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Change Implementation Agent
Executes the regulatory affairs step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Affairs when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Regulatory Stance Agent
Authors positions on regulatory affairs. 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.
Regulatory Affairs Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for regulatory affairs. 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 agent supervision, calibration and coaching.
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.
Regulatory Stance Position
Ratifiedv1Which parts of regulatory affairs should deliberately stay human, and how do we defend that against a cost argument?
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.
confidence
62%
The challenge — Regulatory Affairs Challenger Agent
Regulatory Affairs 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 6 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per regulatory item 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 $37k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $67k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | not selected |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1283k to build controls | Override rate is 14 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $568k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | selected |
Ratified 4 months ago. Measured since: cost per regulatory item fell 21 percent against a forecast of 15 percent.
Regulatory Affairs Operating Position
Ratifiedv2Where should the autonomy ceiling for regulatory affairs sit over the next four quarters, and what evidence would justify moving it?
Keep the repeatable regulatory item 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
84%
The challenge — Regulatory Affairs Challenger Agent
Regulatory Affairs 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 12 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per regulatory item 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 $11k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $294k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | not selected |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1763k to build controls | Override rate is 14 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $487k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | selected |
Ratified 2 months ago. Measured since: cost per regulatory item fell 9 percent against a forecast of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LG5-POL-200 | Regulatory Affairs Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the regulatory item 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 5 agents · EU · UK | envelope | Regulatory Affairs Orchestrator | VP Regulatory Affairs | v2.1 | Active |
| LG5-POL-201 | Regulatory Affairs 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 5 agents · Global | evidence | Regulatory Affairs Orchestrator | VP Regulatory Affairs | v5.0 | Active |
| LG5-POL-202 | Regulatory Affairs 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. VP Regulatory Affairs owns the response clock. binds 5 agents · LATAM · US | escalation | Regulatory Affairs Orchestrator | VP Regulatory Affairs | v3.0 | Active |
| LG5-POL-203 | Regulatory Affairs Autonomy Ceiling The ceiling for this lane is 68 on the platform scale. Horizon scanning and impact mapping are continuous and agentic. Anything filed with a regulator is signed by an officer, because it binds the company. The ceiling is a governance decision, not a technical limit, and only VP Regulatory Affairs can propose moving it. binds 5 agents · Global | ceiling | Regulatory Affairs Orchestrator | VP Regulatory Affairs | v4.8 | Active |