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Sales/Account Planning

Sub-function

Account Planning

Owns account plan work end to end inside Sales. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 4 human gates.

orchestrator Account Planning Orchestratorhuman owner VP Strategic Accountsno shared tower — judgment density too high

Estate rating

BBB

69 / 100

autonomy 64%cap 72%

Agents author the account strategy end to end. The rep owns the relationship and ratifies the plan they will actually run.

Agents

9

Lines

3

Units / wk

4,088

Timetable vs actual

16.5h → 16.4h

Cost / unit

$9.27

was $25

Run-rate saving

$3.4M

annualized at this volume

The 9 agents running this sub-function

Grouped by what they are for, not by where they sit. The agent org is process-shaped.

OrchestratorOwns the queue and arbitrates between desks.

Account Planning Orchestrator

Owns the account planning lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.

ObserveA334 / 24h96%6% ovr$13/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to VP Strategic Accounts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.

TaskExecutes stations on a line.

Account Research Agent

Executes the account planning step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.

WorkflowA31,955 / 24h88%2% ovr$0.27/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to VP Strategic Accounts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.

Stakeholder Map Agent

Executes the account planning step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.

WorkflowA32,136 / 24h99%3% ovr$0.41/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to VP Strategic Accounts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.

Whitespace & Cross-sell Agent

Executes the account planning step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.

WorkflowA32,682 / 24h89%4% ovr$0.11/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to VP Strategic Accounts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.

Executive Brief Agent

Executes the account planning step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.

WorkflowA33,550 / 24h89%1% ovr$0.58/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to VP Strategic Accounts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.

StrategyForms and defends a position.

Competitive Position Agent

Authors positions on account planning. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.

StrategyA2188 / 24h90%11% ovr$1.64/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them.

Account Strategy Agent

Authors positions on account planning. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.

StrategyA2182 / 24h92%8% ovr$9.01/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them.

ObserveWatches signals and watches the agents.

Relationship Health Agent

Watches account planning continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.

ObserveA343 / 24h94%9% ovr$1.17/task

ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to VP Strategic Accounts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.

ChallengerPaid to disagree before a human has to.

Account Planning Challenger Agent

Adversarial reviewer for account planning. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.

StrategyA2114 / 24h88%5% ovr$9.78/task

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.

Control Coverage66
Evidence Quality74
Override Discipline83
Data Integrity60
Recovery Readiness71
Cost Transparency78
Judgment Readiness57

People

What the humans stopped doing, and what they do now.

headcount on this work47.035.5 FTE

Redeployed into cross-function process redesign.

inference cost per unit$1.42

Lines running in this sub-function

Each line is a workflow. Click a line to walk it station by station.

9 clear3 evidenced0 held
SL2AStrategic Account PlanJudgment · 8 stations

Frame account

16 q

Research

1 live

Map stakeholders

31 q

Model growth paths

31 q

Draft plan

42 q

Challenge

0 q

Rep review

1 live

Ratify

6 q

SL2BQuarterly Account ReviewAnalytical · 5 stations

Refresh signals

2 live

Score health

36 q

Draft readout

37 q

Leader review

4 q

Log actions

2 live

SL2CExecutive Sponsor BriefTransactional · 5 stations

Assemble context

1 live

Draft brief

19 q

Fact check

2 live

Sponsor review

3 q

Deliver

3 live

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.

SL2-POS-100

Strategic Account Plan

Draftv4

Where should the autonomy ceiling for account planning sit over the next four quarters, and what evidence would justify moving it?

Hold the ceiling at A3 for account planning. Agents author the account strategy end to end. The rep owns the relationship and ratifies the plan they will actually run. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.

confidence

80%

The challenge — Account Planning Challenger Agent

Account Planning 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 10 percent for two consecutive months
  • ·Cost per account plan 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 $31k are sampled, not fully measured
Alternative consideredCostRiskVerdict
Hold the current position$253k run rateKnown and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster.live
Raise the ceiling one level now$286k to build controlsOverride rate is 12 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production.rejected on evidence
Move the exception tail to the spine$501k transitionLoses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover.under review
authored by Account Strategy Agentratifier VP Strategic Accounts3 stated assumptions
SL2-POS-101

Account Planning Operating Position

Rejectedv1

Should account plan work stay in the shared transaction spine, or come back inside the function where the context lives?

Keep the repeatable account plan 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

77%

The challenge — Account Planning Challenger Agent

Account Planning Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 3 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 11 percent for two consecutive months
  • ·Cost per account plan 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 $52k are sampled, not fully measured
Alternative consideredCostRiskVerdict
Hold the current position$488k run rateKnown and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster.live
Raise the ceiling one level now$1216k to build controlsOverride 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$325k transitionLoses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover.under review
authored by Competitive Position Agentratifier VP Strategic Accounts3 stated assumptions

Policy register

The rules the agents above are bound by. Version, owner, approver, and the agents each rule constrains.

RefRuleScopeOwner agentApproved byVersionStatus
SL2-POL-200

Account Planning Decision Envelope

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the account plan 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 · US

envelopeAccount Planning OrchestratorVP Strategic Accountsv5.7Active
SL2-POL-201

Account Planning 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

evidenceAccount Planning OrchestratorVP Strategic Accountsv3.0Active
SL2-POL-202

Account Planning 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 Strategic Accounts owns the response clock.

binds 4 agents · EU · UK

escalationAccount Planning OrchestratorVP Strategic Accountsv2.5Active