Standard operating procedure · AD2A · Administration
Lease Event to Decision
Analytical procedure owned by Real Estate Portfolio in Administration. 8 numbered steps, 1 of them a person deciding and 7 of them agent work … more
Procedure code
AD2A
Analytical
Rule versions in force
v4.4 · v2.9
2 governing rules stacked over it
In force since
2024-11-09
Earliest effective date across those rules
Last reviewed
2026-06-23
Latest review date across those rules
Rules approved by
1
VP Corporate Real Estate
Rule health
1/2
0 under review · 1 superseded
There is no document register behind this header. The version, the dates and the approver names are read off the governing rules this procedure runs inside, which is the closest thing the estate holds to a document control record. Nobody wrote these procedures. There is no document library behind this page and no Word file anywhere in the estate. Every procedure below is generated from rows this platform already holds: the line and its ordered stations, the owning team and the person accountable for it, the policy items bound to that team, and the governance gates seeded against the function. The steps, the owners, the gates, the approvers, the dwell times and the volumes are read straight off those rows. The sentences that join them together are generated. Read a procedure as the estate describing itself, not as a document somebody signed.
Purpose and scope
What this procedure is for and where it stops
To run lease event to decision to one repeatable standard inside Real Estate Portfolio, part of Administration. more
Entry condition
Runs analytical. Starts when a drift signal breaches tolerance.
Exit condition
The unit clears execute. more
In scope
- Every unit of lease event to decision raised inside Real Estate Portfolio, from the trigger below through to the final step.
- 7 of the 8 steps, which run without a person present.
- 1 decision that stops the line until a named person releases it.
Out of scope
- Anything outside the envelope set by the owning team. It leaves the line at a gate and becomes the named approver's decision.
- Work that belongs to another function. This line hands off to legal and does not follow the unit there.
- Shared-spine work. This line has none; every step is done inside the function.
Who owns it
Runs the line
Portfolio Orchestrator
Accountable person
VP Corporate Real Estate
The end of the escalation path. Above them sits Administration Chief of Staff for the function.
That team’s remit
Owns lease event work end to end inside Administration. more
That remit describes the whole team, not this one procedure, so its counts are larger than the ones on this page.
Autonomy
33% now · ceiling 58%
Multi-year capital commitments. Agents can abstract every lease and model every option, but signing a fifteen-year obligation is not delegable to a model.
The procedure, step by step
8 numbered steps · 1 of them stop for a person
A step is one station on the line. more
| No. | Step | Who does it | What happens | System of record | Time on the step | In flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Critical date fires Agentworkflow | Lease Abstraction Agent | Lease Abstraction Agent performs this step unattended at the workflow layer, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | Group ERP — Financials | 1.7 hrsstandard 2.1 hrs | 34 |
| 02 | Abstract terms Agentworkflow | Critical Date Agent | Critical Date Agent performs this step unattended at the workflow layer, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 13.5 hrsstandard 30.6 hrs | 34 |
| 03 | Pull comparables Agentworkflow | Market Comparable Agent | Market Comparable Agent performs this step unattended at the workflow layer, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | Group ERP — Financials | 10.4 hrsstandard 16.7 hrs | 18 |
| 04 | Model options Agentworkflow | Portfolio Scenario Agent | Portfolio Scenario Agent performs this step unattended at the workflow layer, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 3.8 hrsstandard 8.7 hrs | 33 |
| 05 | Draft recommendation Agentworkflow | Site Selection Agent | Site Selection Agent performs this step unattended at the workflow layer, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | Group ERP — Financials | 8.5 hrsstandard 20.4 hrs | 5 |
| 06 | Legal review Agentworkflow | Dispose-Hold-Grow Agent | Dispose-Hold-Grow Agent performs this step unattended at the workflow layer, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote.Hands off to legal | IT Service Management | 8.0 hrsstandard 11.4 hrs | 28 |
| 07 | Approve HumanpolicyDecision | VP Corporate Real Estate Releases: VP Corporate Real Estate | Work stops. VP Corporate Real Estate reviews what the line has produced and either releases the unit or sends it back. Nothing downstream of this step runs until that decision is made.Holds until: Held for a named human when the unit exceeds the lease event decision envelope, when confidence falls below the floor, or when a policy clause is engaged. | Group ERP — Financials | 8.0 hrsstandard 9.5 hrs | 1 |
| 08 | Execute Agentworkflow | Real Estate Strategy Agent | Real Estate Strategy Agent performs this step unattended at the workflow layer, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | Group ERP — Financials | 4.9 hrsstandard 7.5 hrs | 33 |
The swimlane
The same steps, laid out by who is holding the work
Three lanes: a person deciding, an agent working, and the shared services spine. more
Run the procedure
One unit walked along that swimlane on the happy viable agentified path
Press run and a single unit enters at station 01. Each station takes exactly the dwell this platform records for it and is held by whoever the estate says holds it. more
Nothing has happened yet. more
- The lanes are the recorded lanes. 1 of the 8 stations stop for a person and every one of them still does on this run.
- Every one of the 1 decision is still taken by the person who holds it. The happy path is that each one is released first time, not that it is skipped.
- The owning team is held to a 58% autonomy ceiling and this run sits at 86% unattended, inside it.
- 2 systems are attributed across the stations, and 0 of them are connected. Nothing in this run has been watched executing against a real system of record.
One decision, held by VP Corporate Real Estate. more
- 07 Approve — The last decision on the line. Something on every procedure ends with a person, so this one is never offered.
This is a run, not a forecast. more
Happy means nothing goes wrong: no station raises an exception, no gate sends the unit back, no rework loop fires and nothing sits in a queue between stations. more
The second clock is the allowance. more
A decision may be handed to the agent lane only if two things hold … more
The run reads the station rows only. more
What this run does not model: arrival patterns, contention between procedures for the same person, shift patterns, weekends, learning curves, and the cost of anything. more
Run it again, going wrong
The same unit, the same stations, broken the way the estate already records breaking
This is the same unit on the same stations, breaking. more
No break below was chosen. more
One play head, two tracks, the same scale. The clean run stops when it runs out of stations; the other one keeps going.
As written
8 stations, nothing waiting, nothing sent back
0 min of 2.5 days
now Critical date fires · Lease Abstraction Agent · 1.7 hrs
As the ledger has it
the same stations, plus 3 categories the estate already counts
0 min of 2.7 days
now Critical date fires · Lease Abstraction Agent · 1.7 hrs
What breaks, and where it is counted
No break below was chosen. more
What the two runs say together
3 counted categories land on this procedure. more
What this run cannot claim
These breaks are shown together on one unit so the shape of a bad day fits on one screen. more
Two clocks run. Worked time is the sum of the time the work is actually being done … more
Roles and responsibilities
9 named parties
The responsibility grid is assigned by a rule, not lifted from a chart. more
| Party | RACI | Steps | Duty | Escalates to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Portfolio Orchestrator orchestrator | Runs the line | 0 | Sequences this line, holds its timetable and decides what has to surface to a person. more | Raises to VP Corporate Real Estate when a unit falls outside the envelope or confidence drops below the floor. |
Lease Abstraction Agent agent A2% autonomy · ceiling A2% 89% clean · 4% overridden | Responsible | 1 | Executes the real estate portfolio step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage. | Escalates to VP Corporate Real Estate when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor. |
Critical Date Agent agent A2% autonomy · ceiling A2% 98% clean · 4% overridden | Responsible | 1 | Executes the real estate portfolio step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage. | Escalates to VP Corporate Real Estate when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor. |
Market Comparable Agent agent A2% autonomy · ceiling A2% 97% clean · 6% overridden | Responsible | 1 | Executes the real estate portfolio step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage. | Escalates to VP Corporate Real Estate when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor. |
Portfolio Scenario Agent agent A2% autonomy · ceiling A2% 96% clean · 8% overridden | Responsible | 1 | Executes the real estate portfolio step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage. | Escalates to VP Corporate Real Estate when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor. |
Site Selection Agent agent A2% autonomy · ceiling A2% 88% clean · 7% overridden | Responsible | 1 | Authors positions on real estate portfolio. more | Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them. |
Dispose-Hold-Grow Agent agent A2% autonomy · ceiling A2% 94% clean · 11% overridden | Responsible | 1 | Authors positions on real estate portfolio. more | Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them. |
VP Corporate Real Estate person | Accountable and responsible | 1 | Holds 1 decision on this line. more | Accountable to VP Corporate Real Estate for the decisions held here. |
Real Estate Strategy Agent agent A2% autonomy · ceiling A2% 91% clean · 5% overridden | Responsible | 1 | Authors positions on real estate portfolio. more | Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them. |
Decision points and escalation
1 places this procedure stops
07 · Approve
8.0 hrsHeld for a named human when the unit exceeds the lease event decision envelope, when confidence falls below the floor, or when a policy clause is engaged.
VP Corporate Real Estate
Handoffs out of this procedure
Step 06 Legal review passes the work to legal.
The rules this procedure runs inside
2 governing rules
Real Estate Portfolio Decision Envelope
activeAD2-POL-200 · envelope · vv4.4
Agents in this lane may act without a human when the lease event sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. more
Approved by VP Corporate Real Estate · in force 2024-11-09 · reviewed 2026-04-21
Binds Lease Abstraction Agent, Critical Date Agent, Market Comparable Agent, Portfolio Scenario Agent, Occupancy Cost Agent
US · Canada
Real Estate Portfolio Evidence Standard
supersededAD2-POL-201 · evidence · vv2.9
Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. more
Approved by VP Corporate Real Estate · in force 2024-11-27 · reviewed 2026-06-23
Binds Lease Abstraction Agent, Critical Date Agent, Market Comparable Agent, Portfolio Scenario Agent, Occupancy Cost Agent
EU · UK · US
Systems this procedure touches
2 named · 0 connected
System attribution is a rule, not a reading. more
| System | Vendor | Domain | Criticality | Steps | Connection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group ERP — Financials | SAP S/4HANA | ledger | critical | 5 | modeled |
| IT Service Management | ServiceNow ITSM | itsm | high | 3 | modeled |
0 of the 2 systems on this procedure is connected to the platform, and none of the twenty-six in the estate register is. 2 of them are marked as taking a write back, which is a property of the system, not a live path from here.
How it performs
End to end
2.5 days
Summed from the time each step sits, standard 4.5 days — running at 55% of the standard.
Touchless
44%
Agent share
88%
A week
63
In flight
186
Effort a week
479 human minutes · 3,049 agent minutes
Volume multiplied by the time on each step. more
Assurance over this procedure
4 governance gates sit above it
The twenty-four controls and eighteen exception classes in this platform are held at estate level … more
| Gate | What trips it | Who releases it | Clock | Waivable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Travel above $5,000 approval | Any itinerary exceeding $5,000 in total cost | Function leader | 1 business day | No |
Security-sensitive itinerary approval | Travel to any listed destination or any executive protection requirement | Security and Chief Administrative Officer | 2 business days | No |
Records disposition approval | Any deletion, destruction or retention-period change | Records officer and Legal | 5 business days | No |
Executive calendar displacement escalation | Any change that displaces an existing external commitment | Executive assistant | 2 hours | No |
Next to it on the same team
Real Estate Portfolio
What this document is and is not
These procedures describe the modeled estate. more
Actions
What is waiting on a person
What one procedure document gives you, and what to check before you treat it as the standard.
named approvers appear across the library
Every decision point on every procedure carries a job title, not a queue. more
steps in the library hand their unit to another function
A handoff is where a procedure stops being one team’s problem. more
controls exist in the estate, and they belong to no procedure in particular
Controls and exception classes are held estate-wide. more
Operations
What this desk is allowed to start
A surface that only reports is not operable. more
Trigger and bound
A procedure document prints purpose, scope, entry and exit, the numbered steps with the actor on each, the roles and their RACI position, the swimlane, the decision points and escalation, the handoffs, the governing rules with version and approver, the systems by rule and the timings. more
Live observability
What the record shows right now
The whole library, by lane, so a single document can be read against the estate it came from. more
Current distribution
2,748 steps
Is policy and strategy coming to fruition
Whether the written intent is holding here
Half. The document is complete and every actor on it is measured more
Not holding on the record
A procedure here carries a version, an approver, an in-force date and a last-review date. more