Sub-function
IP Creation & Capture
Owns disclosure work end to end inside Research & Development. Runs 3 lines across 16 stations, drains the repeatable share into the C2L tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
72 / 100
Detecting patentable work inside research output is something agents do continuously and people forget to do. Inventorship is a legal attribution a human confirms.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
1,100
Timetable vs actual
16.4h → 19.4h
Cost / unit
$13
was $44
Run-rate saving
$1.7M
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.
IP Capture Orchestrator
Owns the ip creation & capture lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IP Capture when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Invention Detection Agent
Watches ip creation & capture continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IP Capture when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Disclosure Drafting Agent
Executes the ip creation & capture step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IP Capture when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Novelty Screening Agent
Executes the ip creation & capture step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IP Capture when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Trade Secret Agent
Executes the ip creation & capture step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IP Capture when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Inventor Attribution Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of ip creation & capture inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, IP Capture when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
IP Strategy Agent
Authors positions on ip creation & capture. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them.
IP Creation & Capture Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for ip creation & capture. 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 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.
IP Strategy Position
Supersededv1Should disclosure work stay in the shared transaction spine, or come back inside the function where the context lives?
Hold the ceiling at A3 for ip creation & capture. Detecting patentable work inside research output is something agents do continuously and people forget to do. Inventorship is a legal attribution a human confirms. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
67%
The challenge — IP Creation & Capture Challenger Agent
IP Creation & Capture Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 2 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 14 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per disclosure 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 $25k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $728k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $132k to build controls | Override rate is 7 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $502k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
IP Creation & Capture Operating Position
Ratifiedv4What operating shape carries twice the current disclosure volume without adding headcount, and what breaks first if we are wrong?
Keep the repeatable disclosure 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
74%
The challenge — IP Creation & Capture Challenger Agent
IP Creation & Capture Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 2 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 disclosure stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A comparator publishes a materially lower unit cost on a like-for-like basis
Evidence gaps
- ·No independent test of the control evidence behind the touchless rate
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $181k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | not selected |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1526k 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 | $911k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | selected |
Ratified 6 months ago. Measured since: cost per disclosure rose 5 percent against a forecast that it would fall 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RD7-POL-200 | IP Creation & Capture Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the disclosure 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 | IP Capture Orchestrator | Director, IP Capture | v4.8 | Active |
| RD7-POL-201 | IP Creation & Capture 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 · EU · UK · US | evidence | IP Capture Orchestrator | Director, IP Capture | v4.4 | Active |
| RD7-POL-202 | IP Creation & Capture 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. Director, IP Capture owns the response clock. binds 4 agents · EU · UK · US | escalation | IP Capture Orchestrator | Director, IP Capture | v5.8 | under review |
| RD7-POL-203 | IP Creation & Capture Autonomy Ceiling The ceiling for this lane is 80 on the platform scale. Detecting patentable work inside research output is something agents do continuously and people forget to do. Inventorship is a legal attribution a human confirms. The ceiling is a governance decision, not a technical limit, and only Director, IP Capture can propose moving it. binds 4 agents · EU · UK · US | ceiling | IP Capture Orchestrator | Director, IP Capture | v2.8 | Active |