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Chapter III · Build

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Turn the decision into a system that can act.

A paper strip runs through four translucent sage gates and one red gate onto a dark plate scored with fine lines.
A requirement enters on paper and leaves as a released system. The stops on the way are where a person signs off.

A model can answer. It cannot be trusted to act. What we build around it is what makes action safe, and what survives the next model release: the context it may use, the tools it may call, the permission it may not exceed, the evaluations it must pass, and the person who can stop it. We call that the harness. Every system we ship runs inside one. It is built in a finite pass with two holds, where the pass stops until a person has signed off: one for the product decision, one for release. Every release has a way back, written before the release. We build agents where the system should stay and the manual work around it should go, and custom software where the workflow itself should change, and only with a written case.

Plate IV

The harness, exploded.

Six components around the model, each answering one question a chief executive would ask before letting software act.

Plate IV. The harness, exploded. Six plates stacked on one axis: model and routing, company context, tools and integrations, permissions and boundaries, evaluations and monitoring, and the owner with the way back. Each is named with its function and what fails without it. the model 1Model and routingThe right model for each step, replaceable. One vendor’s limits become the operating model. 2Company contextWorkGraph: how this company’s work is done, what was decided and who owns it. The agent acts on a generic idea of the company. 3Tools and integrationsWhat the agent may read and prepare, in which systems. Capability without reach, or reach without limits. 4Permissions and boundariesWhat it may propose, execute, and never do. Speed outranks governance. 5Evaluations and monitoringTests before release; evidence while running. Nobody can tell whether it is working. 6Owner, escalation and way backWho decides at the boundary and how the state is reversed. An exception becomes an incident. the six components · one harness Plate IV. The harness, exploded. Six plates stacked on one axis: model and routing, company context, tools and integrations, permissions and boundaries, evaluations and monitoring, and the owner with the way back. Each is named with its function and what fails without it. the model 1 Model and routing The right model for each step,replaceable. Without it, one vendor’s limitsbecome the operating model. 2 Company context WorkGraph: how this company’s workis done, what was decided and whoowns it. Without it, the agent acts on ageneric idea of the company. 3 Tools and integrations What the agent may read and prepare,in which systems. Without it, capability withoutreach, or reach without limits. 4 Permissions and boundaries What it may propose, execute, andnever do. Without it, speed outranksgovernance. 5 Evaluations and monitoring Tests before release; evidence whilerunning. Without it, nobody can tell whetherit is working. 6 Owner, escalation and way back Who decides at the boundary and howthe state is reversed. Without it, an exception becomes anincident.

Fig. 4 · Six components, one harness. The model is one of six.

Dagg Factory

How a decision becomes a system.

Dagg Factory is how we build. A finite pass, the same for every build, from the record to a released system. Six stages, and people work every one of them. At two of them the pass stops, and nothing continues until a named person has signed off.

The passSix stages. Two holds. Every build.
  1. 01 Requirement What the system must do, and must never do, taken from the record.
  2. 02 Product decisionHold · stops until signed off The pass stops here. A person decides whether this deserves to become a system at all, and what it must never do.
  3. 03 Architecture Engineers decide which systems it reads, which tools it may use and what it may prepare.
  4. 04 Build Engineers build it. The company’s context becomes the working context. Agents, or custom software.
  5. 05 EvaluationHold · stops until signed off The pass stops here. The tests it must pass, including the cases where it must withhold. A person decides whether it may be released.
  6. 06 Release A named release owner. A way back, written before release.

Every release links back to the record it was built from.

Partnership

The work does not end at release.

Models grow more capable, threats change, the cost and speed of inference move every quarter, and the right level of intelligence for each job is a decision that keeps being made. Some companies run the operation around their AI themselves. Others place it with us. We stay in it either way.

Next · Chapter IV · Control

Nothing acts beyond its permission.

Permission attaches to the action, not the agent. Read, propose, execute, withhold. Stop is a valid product state.

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