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Sales/Expansion & Renewals

Sub-function

Expansion & Renewals

Owns renewal work end to end inside Sales. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the O2C tower, and holds 2 human gates.

orchestrator Renewal Orchestratorhuman owner VP Customer Growth routes into o2c

Estate rating

BBB

74 / 100

autonomy 71%cap 82%

Standard renewals process touchless at the quote. Concessions and save offers require an approver because they set precedent across the base.

Agents

9

Lines

3

Units / wk

10,746

Timetable vs actual

8.7h → 9.9h

Cost / unit

$15

was $44

Run-rate saving

$15.8M

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.

Renewal Orchestrator

Owns the expansion & renewals lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.

ObserveA337 / 24h91%9% ovr$13/task

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

AI GBSRuns the shared transaction spine.

Renewal Risk Agent

Runs the repeatable portion of expansion & renewals inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.

AI GBSA33,073 / 24h90%5% ovr$0.55/task

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

Renewal Quote Agent

Runs the repeatable portion of expansion & renewals inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.

AI GBSA34,083 / 24h89%6% ovr$0.04/task

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

ObserveWatches signals and watches the agents.

Usage Signal Agent

Watches expansion & renewals continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.

ObserveA3155 / 24h91%14% ovr$1.75/task

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

Expansion Signal Agent

Watches expansion & renewals continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.

ObserveA395 / 24h91%17% ovr$2.47/task

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

TaskExecutes stations on a line.

Uplift Modeling Agent

Executes the expansion & renewals step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.

WorkflowA33,507 / 24h94%5% ovr$0.57/task

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

Save Play Agent

Executes the expansion & renewals step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.

WorkflowA32,691 / 24h95%5% ovr$0.09/task

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

StrategyForms and defends a position.

Retention Doctrine Agent

Authors positions on expansion & renewals. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.

StrategyA29 / 24h91%17% ovr$5.62/task

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

ChallengerPaid to disagree before a human has to.

Expansion & Renewals Challenger Agent

Adversarial reviewer for expansion & renewals. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.

StrategyA2186 / 24h88%4% ovr$5.51/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 Coverage73
Evidence Quality81
Override Discipline76
Data Integrity66
Recovery Readiness73
Cost Transparency78
Judgment Readiness68

People

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

headcount on this work25.316.7 FTE

Redeployed into scenario work and strategy authoring review.

inference cost per unit$4.41

Lines running in this sub-function

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

17 clear3 evidenced0 held
SL9ARenewal CycleTransactional · 7 stations

Trigger at 120 days

3 live

Score risk

1 live

Model uplift

43 q

Draft quote

29 q

Rep review

2 live

Negotiate

1 live

Book

14 q

SL9BAt-risk SaveTransactional · 6 stations

Detect churn signal

2 live

Diagnose

1 live

Select save play

2 live

Approve concession

1 live

Execute

2 live

Track

1 live

SL9CExpansion PlayTransactional · 4 stations

Detect usage headroom

1 live

Size opportunity

4 q

Route to seller

6 q

Track conversion

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.

SL9-POS-100

Expansion & Renewals Operating Position

Draftv2

What operating shape carries twice the current renewal volume without adding headcount, and what breaks first if we are wrong?

Hold the ceiling at A3 for expansion & renewals. Standard renewals process touchless at the quote. Concessions and save offers require an approver because they set precedent across the base. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.

confidence

86%

The challenge — Expansion & Renewals Challenger Agent

Expansion & Renewals 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 8 percent for two consecutive months
  • ·Cost per renewal 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 $30k are sampled, not fully measured
Alternative consideredCostRiskVerdict
Hold the current position$733k run rateKnown and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster.live
Raise the ceiling one level now$336k 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$224k transitionLoses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover.under review
authored by Retention Doctrine Agentratifier VP Customer Growth3 stated assumptions

Policy register

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

RefRuleScopeOwner agentApproved byVersionStatus
SL9-POL-200

Expansion & Renewals Decision Envelope

Agents in this lane may act without a human when the renewal 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

envelopeRenewal OrchestratorVP Customer Growthv4.8Active
SL9-POL-201

Expansion & Renewals 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

evidenceRenewal OrchestratorVP Customer Growthv4.5Superseded
SL9-POL-202

Expansion & Renewals 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 Customer Growth owns the response clock.

binds 4 agents · LATAM · US

escalationRenewal OrchestratorVP Customer Growthv2.7Active
SL9-POL-203

Expansion & Renewals Autonomy Ceiling

The ceiling for this lane is 82 on the platform scale. Standard renewals process touchless at the quote. Concessions and save offers require an approver because they set precedent across the base. The ceiling is a governance decision, not a technical limit, and only VP Customer Growth can propose moving it.

binds 4 agents · US · Canada

ceilingRenewal OrchestratorVP Customer Growthv4.2Active