Sub-function
Regulatory Science
Owns submission work end to end inside Research & Development. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into the C2L tower, and holds 6 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
72 / 100
Requirement mapping and evidence assembly are agentic at scale. Everything filed with a regulator is signed by a named officer with personal accountability.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
22,214
Timetable vs actual
8.9h → 9.0h
Cost / unit
$15
was $40
Run-rate saving
$28.7M
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.
Regulatory Science Orchestrator
Owns the regulatory science 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 Science when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Requirement Mapping Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of regulatory science inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Science when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Evidence Assembly Agent
Executes the regulatory science step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Science when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Submission Drafting Agent
Executes the regulatory science step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Science when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Testing Coordination Agent
Executes the regulatory science step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Science when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Standards Watch Agent
Watches regulatory science continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates to VP Regulatory Science when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Regulatory Policy Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in regulatory science. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A2 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Regulatory Science Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for regulatory science. 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 customer-facing escalation ownership.
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 Science Operating Position
Ratifiedv3Which parts of regulatory science should deliberately stay human, and how do we defend that against a cost argument?
Hold the ceiling at A2 for regulatory science. Requirement mapping and evidence assembly are agentic at scale. Everything filed with a regulator is signed by a named officer with personal accountability. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
68%
The challenge — Regulatory Science Challenger Agent
Regulatory Science 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 submission 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 $35k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $898k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | not selected |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $282k to build controls | Override rate is 9 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $419k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | selected |
Ratified 6 months ago. Measured since: cost per submission fell 16 percent against a forecast of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RD8-POL-200 | Regulatory Science Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the submission 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 · APAC | envelope | Regulatory Policy Agent | VP Regulatory Science | v3.3 | Active |
| RD8-POL-201 | Regulatory Science 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 | Regulatory Policy Agent | VP Regulatory Science | v1.4 | Active |