A business case your champion can send unedited
Use this page in an internal note. Replace the bracketed organisation-specific facts; the decision structure is already written.
Decision requested
Approve a fixed-scope agent governance review covering one live or near-live workflow, with a named executive sponsor and access to the architecture, risk and delivery owners.
Problem
Agents can now act in systems of record, but existing model, identity and audit controls do not consistently show which human authority permitted each action, which policy evaluated it, or how the decision can be reconstructed later.
Cost of waiting
The exposure is not limited to model quality. A wrong action can become a customer remediation event, an audit finding or a forced production stop. Remediation is most expensive after the agent surface and evidence model have scaled.
Scope
- Agent and action-class inventory
- Entitlement and policy-enforcement assessment
- Evidence reconstruction test
- Model-risk and obligation mapping
- Prioritised remediation sequence with owners
Why this route
A bounded independent review keeps senior judgment on the work and produces evidence early. A large transformation programme is appropriate only if the assessment proves that a programme is necessary.
Commercial request
Request a fixed proposal for the selected workflow. Confirm the contracting supplier, insurance position and tax packet through the procurement page before approval.
Alternatives considered
- Do nothing until a formal audit: lowest immediate cost, highest rework risk.
- Internal self-review: fast, but weak independent challenge.
- Large-firm programme: appropriate for enterprise-wide transformation, disproportionate for a bounded first decision.
Turn this into a scoped decision
Send the workflow, deadline and internal decision-maker. The reply will separate what can be reviewed now from what would manufacture unnecessary procurement scope.