Consequential decision classes
Authorize the business action, not merely the tool call.
TracePoint applies delegated authority, policy, accountable ownership, execution binding, evidence, and recovery to decision classes with material enterprise consequences.
First implemented workflow
Operational Change Authorization.
The local product verifies an AI actor and its delegated authority before allowing, escalating, or denying a bounded service-restoration change. The current enforcement connector is local. Other decision classes are expansion boundaries and do not imply available production connectors.
Decision boundary patterns
Define authority, limits, escalation, evidence, and recovery for each action class.
Working local capability
Operational change authorization
- Proposed action
- A service operations agent proposes a production traffic shift for service restoration
- Required authority
- Service owner and platform operations delegation
- Limits
- Service, environment, change type, purpose, destination, playbook, scope, validity, and rollback
- Escalation
- Change scope above automatic authority but inside the delegated maximum
- Evidence
- Verified actor, owner, authority version, policy, decision, authorization, connector execution, and receipt
- Recovery
- Rollback remains connected to the original decision and execution receipt
Applicable decision boundary
Commercial exceptions
- Proposed action
- Pricing, terms, credits, and contractual exceptions
- Required authority
- Commercial leadership and finance control owners
- Limits
- Deal value, margin, term, customer class, and jurisdiction
- Escalation
- Nonstandard terms or exposure above delegated limits
- Evidence
- Decision basis, exception owner, approved terms, and resulting commitment
- Recovery
- Correction, compensation, contract update, or legal review
Expansion workflow
Procurement and spending authority
- Proposed action
- Purchases, invoices, vendor commitments, and budget changes
- Required authority
- Budget owner, procurement, and finance
- Limits
- Supplier, category, budget, amount, and segregation of duties
- Escalation
- New vendor, unusual terms, threshold breach, or control conflict
- Evidence
- Authority source, policy check, approval, purchase record, and receipt
- Recovery
- Cancellation, reconciliation, or compensating approval
Expansion workflow
Sensitive data disclosure
- Proposed action
- Release, sharing, export, or access to protected information
- Required authority
- Data owner, privacy, legal, and security
- Limits
- Purpose, recipient, data class, consent, region, and retention
- Escalation
- Unclear purpose, sensitive class, external recipient, or jurisdiction conflict
- Evidence
- Data scope, purpose, owner, policy, recipient, and disclosure record
- Recovery
- Access revocation, notification, containment, and incident linkage
Expansion workflow
Account and entitlement changes
- Proposed action
- Access, service level, account status, and contractual entitlements
- Required authority
- Business process owner and application owner
- Limits
- Role, account, entitlement, duration, and business purpose
- Escalation
- Privileged access, separation conflict, or exceptional duration
- Evidence
- Actor, accountable owner, entitlement change, reason, and receipt
- Recovery
- Revocation, rollback, reconciliation, and owner notification
Applicable decision boundary
Regulated workflow decisions
- Proposed action
- Eligibility, claims, underwriting, and other regulated determinations
- Required authority
- Named business owner with risk, compliance, and legal oversight
- Limits
- Jurisdiction, decision class, evidence threshold, and required human judgment
- Escalation
- Material uncertainty, adverse impact, exception, or mandatory review
- Evidence
- Inputs, authority, policy version, disposition, reviewer, and outcome
- Recovery
- Correction, appeal, remediation, and regulator ready evidence
Buyer and implementation team
Business accountability and technical implementation meet at the same boundary.
The economic owner is typically the leader accountable for the business process and its consequences. The technical champion leads AI platform, automation, architecture, or engineering. Security, risk, compliance, legal, audit, finance controls, and the execution system owner shape the deployment boundary.
Commercial entry