Enterprise AI Architecture

How the
Decision Factory Works

Agents become first-class citizens with identity, authorization, and full traceability. Your knowledge workers work with an agent mesh—not spreadsheets and emails—to deliver better decisions, faster decisions, more decisions.

Agentic

Identity & Auth

Full

Observability

Self-

Adapting

100%

Auditable

The Decision Factory

Signal. Policy. Orchestrate. Optimize.

Every decision becomes data. Data refines policy. Better policy yields better decisions. The cycle compounds: more decisions, better decisions, faster decisions—building a better business every day.

Input

Data

Inventory, lead times, demand, pricing, quality metrics—plus past decisions as new data points

Feeds the logic layer
The Unlock

Logic & Strategy

Policies, playbooks, tribal knowledge—readable, writable, improvable by the system

NEW LLMs unlock this layer
Output

Execution

Generate POs, update schedules, trigger workflows—and log outcomes as new data

Feeds back to Data

Real-Time Intelligence Overlay

Traditional mathematical models need weeks or months to "average in" new information through smoothing. LLMs can overlay real-time intelligence immediately.

A supplier announces a facility closure? That's in your logic layer in seconds—not after months of smoothed historical data finally catches the signal.

The compound effect: Every decision improves the logic layer a little bit. Over thousands of decisions, your decision factory becomes irreplaceable institutional knowledge.

Real-time intelligence, not smoothed averages
Every decision feeds back as data
Logic layer improves incrementally
Decision history as competitive moat
The Factory Floor

A Self-Organizing Agent Mesh

Add an agent—it's auto-discovered, goals aligned, and immediately starts communicating with the mesh. Every agent you add creates a synergistic effect. Teams form around outcomes.

Add Agent

Deploy a new agent with its capabilities and objectives

Auto-Discover

Mesh detects new agent, maps capabilities to existing needs

Goals Align

Agent goals cascade from org hierarchy, conflicts resolved

Start Communicating

Joins secure channels, shares outputs with related agents

The Network Effect

Whatever a new agent does gets funneled to related agents pursuing aligned goals. Teams form organically around outcomes— each agent's output helps others, and every agent you add amplifies the entire mesh. Not 1+1=2. More like 1+1=3.

Factory Capabilities

The infrastructure that makes the decision factory work—orchestration, coordination, identity, observability, and more.

Orchestration

  • APEX Orchestrator

    Advanced multi-agent coordination and task routing

  • Goal Hierarchy

    Org → Team → Agent goal alignment and conflict resolution

  • Dynamic Routing

    Decisions routed by value, confidence, and capability

Agentic Identity

  • Cryptographic Identity

    Every agent has unique, verifiable, unforgeable ID

  • Capability Declarations

    Agents register what they can do, mesh routes accordingly

  • Verifiable Credentials

    Tamper-proof receipts for every action taken

Authorization

  • Value Limits

    Hard stops on max decision value per agent/role

  • Delegation Chains

    Track who authorized whom, maximum depth enforced

  • Zero Trust

    Every action verified, nothing assumed

Communication

  • APEX Context

    Shared memory and context for agent coordination

  • Pub/Sub Channels

    Secure topic-based messaging between agents

  • Team Rooms

    Agents form groups around shared outcomes

Self-Adapting

  • Policy Evolution

    Rules improve based on outcomes automatically

  • Pattern Recognition

    Surfaces insights humans would miss

  • Self-Healing

    Detects issues, proposes and applies fixes

Observability

  • Real-Time Dashboards

    Live view of all agent activity and decisions

  • Performance Metrics

    Agent, team, and org-level KPIs

  • Anomaly Detection

    Automatic alerting on unusual patterns

Traceability

  • Decision Lineage

    Full provenance for every choice made

  • LLM Call Capture

    Exact prompts and responses recorded

  • Historical Query

    Search across all decisions by any dimension

Auditability

  • Cryptographic Proof

    Tamper-evident logs for external audit

  • 7-Year Retention

    WORM storage for compliance requirements

  • Reproducible Decisions

    Replay any decision with exact same context

Coordination

  • Human-in-the-Loop

    Seamless escalation and feedback capture

  • Team Formation

    Agents group around shared outcomes dynamically

  • Conflict Resolution

    Automatic handling of competing goals

The Compound Effect

1

You Make Decisions

Approve, correct, override

2

System Learns

Extracts patterns, updates policies

3

Fabric Strengthens

More decisions automated

4

You Focus Higher

Strategy, not firefighting

Every interaction makes the system smarter. Your expertise becomes permanent infrastructure.

Real Example

Decision Routing In Action

Watch a procurement decision flow through the mesh—from signal to execution, with tribal knowledge and human approval woven in.

Trigger: Inventory Agent detects widget stock below reorder point
1

Signal

Inventory Agent

Inventory Agent flags: "Widget SKU-7842 at 15% safety stock"

Memory: Accesses L1 cache: recent demand velocity
2

Context

Context Manager

Retrieves supplier history, lead times, and tribal knowledge

Memory: L2 semantic: "GE Aviation chronically late—add 10% buffer"
3

Policy Check

Governance Engine

Loads org policy: "$25K+ requires procurement manager approval"

Memory: L3 policy store: spending authority limits
4

Reasoning

Procurement Agent

Calculates order: 500 units + 10% buffer = 550 units @ $52/unit = $28,600

Memory: L1 pricing: current contract rates
5

Routing

Orchestrator

Value exceeds $25K → escalates to human for approval

Memory: Confidence: 0.87, but value limit triggers HIL
6

Human Review

Human-in-the-Loop

Manager approves, adds note: "Good catch on the buffer for GE"

Memory: Feedback captured → reinforces tribal knowledge policy
7

Execution

Execution Agent

PO generated, sent to supplier, receipt scheduled

Memory: L4 archive: full decision chain stored with VC

Result

PO issued for 550 units. Tribal knowledge (GE buffer) applied. Value limit respected. Human approved. Full audit trail stored with verifiable credentials. Manager's positive feedback reinforces the GE policy for next time.

The Logic Layer in Practice

Knowledge That Compounds

Every decision captured. Every outcome tracked. Every correction becomes a policy. Here's what that looks like in practice.

Types of Logic We Capture & Improve

Tribal Knowledge

The unwritten rules your best people know. Captured from overrides, corrections, and notes.

Decision Playbooks

Multi-step reasoning patterns that work. Extracted from successful decision chains.

Policy Rules

Hard constraints and guardrails. Value limits, approval thresholds, compliance requirements.

Root Cause Analyses

What went wrong and why. Documented findings that prevent future failures.

The key: All of this is readable, writable, and improvable by the system—not locked in code or people's heads.

Real Examples from the Logic Layer

GE Aviation

Prevented 23 stockouts in Q3

"Always order 10% extra—they chronically deliver late on POs"

Captured from procurement manager override supplier.ge_aviation.buffer_pct = 10

Firearms Inventory

Safety stock increased, fill rate up 18%

"Demand cycles are 3x more volatile than standard SKUs"

Root cause analysis after Q2 stockout category.firearms.safety_stock_multiplier = 1.8

Aerospace Fasteners

Zero quality escapes since policy adoption

"Never substitute titanium grade—even if cheaper grade passes spec"

Quality team escalation after customer rejection aerospace.titanium.substitution = BLOCKED

Chemical Suppliers

Reduced expired write-offs by $47K/year

"Shelf life data from vendor is optimistic by 15%—adjust expiry calculations"

Inventory analyst pattern recognition chemicals.shelf_life_adjustment = 0.85
Four Pillars

The Architecture That Makes It Work

Enterprise AI requires more than models. It requires infrastructure for trust, governance, and continuous improvement.

Pillar 1

The Agentic Mesh

Connected Intelligence at Scale

A fabric of specialized AI agents, each with cryptographic identity, communicating through secure channels and coordinated by shared organizational goals.

Cryptographic Identity

Every agent has a unique, verifiable identity that cannot be spoofed or impersonated

Spine Communication

Agents communicate via secure pub/sub channels—like Slack for AI, with full audit visibility

Goal Alignment

Agents automatically discover and align with complementary goals across the mesh

Auto-Discovery

New agents self-integrate into the mesh with automatic hierarchy placement

Pillar 2

Decision Lineage

Complete Provenance for Every Choice

Every decision traced back to its source—which agent, what data, which policies, what reasoning. Verifiable proof you can audit externally.

Verifiable Credentials

Tamper-proof receipts for every decision with cryptographic signatures

LLM Call Capture

Exact prompts and responses recorded—reproduce any decision for debugging

Delegation Chains

Track who authorized whom to make which decisions

Historical Query

Search across all decisions, filter by agent, policy, outcome, or time

Pillar 3

Self-Improving Policies

Intelligence That Gets Smarter

Policies that track their own effectiveness and evolve based on outcomes. Underperforming rules are retired, successful patterns are promoted.

Citation Tracking

Monitor which policies agents actually use in their reasoning

Success Correlation

Link policy usage to decision outcomes—what works, what doesn't

Automatic Retirement

Low-performing policies are flagged and phased out

Pattern Promotion

High-success patterns are elevated to playbooks

Pillar 4

Hierarchical Governance

Enterprise Structure for Enterprise AI

Policies cascade from organization to team to agent. Conflicts are detected and resolved automatically. Your hierarchy, enforced in code.

Org → Team → Agent

Three-tier governance with inheritance and override capabilities

Conflict Detection

Semantic analysis catches contradicting policies before they cause issues

Precedence Resolution

Clear rules for which policy wins when conflicts arise

Metrics Rollup

Performance flows up: agent → team → organization dashboards

5-Tier Memory System

Agents That Remember

AI agents are inherently stateless. Every call starts fresh. Without persistent memory, they rebuild context from scratch—wasting tokens and losing continuity.

Our solution: automatic tiered memory that promotes frequently accessed data to fast tiers and archives stale data to cold storage. Agents don't manage tiers—the infrastructure does.

82%

Cost reduction from caching + compression

7yr

Audit retention with WORM storage

Memory Tier Architecture

L0

Active Context

<10ms | 5 min

Current conversation, immediate decisions

L1

Hot Cache

<50ms | 7 days

Recent memories, frequently accessed data

L2

Semantic Index

<100ms | 90 days

Playbooks, searchable knowledge

L3

Warm Storage

<500ms | 90 days

Documents, reference materials

L4

Archive

<5s | 7 years

Compliance, audit history

Hot Cold | Auto-tiering based on access patterns
Decision Lifecycle

From Signal to Learning: Complete Lineage

Every decision flows through seven stages. At each stage, the system captures provenance, enforces governance, and records outcomes for continuous improvement.

1

Signal Detection

An agent detects a condition requiring decision—supply risk, demand shift, quality issue.

Monitoring Agent
Output: Decision Request
2

Policy Resolution

Relevant policies are loaded from hierarchy. Conflicts detected and resolved. Active set compiled.

Governance Engine
Output: Policy Set
3

Context Retrieval

Historical data, playbooks, and expert knowledge retrieved from memory tiers.

Context Manager
Output: Enriched Context
4

Reasoning

Agent applies reasoning with bounded LLM calls. Exact prompts and responses captured for audit.

Domain Agent
Output: Decision + Rationale
5

Routing

Decision routed based on value, confidence, and policy. May escalate to human or executive agent.

Orchestrator
Output: Routed Decision
6

Execution

Approved decisions trigger actions. Sandboxed execution for new or risky agents.

Execution Agent
Output: Verifiable Receipt
7

Learning

Outcomes recorded. Policy effectiveness updated. Expertise scores adjusted. System improves.

Policy Critic
Output: Updated Knowledge
Technical Guarantees

Infrastructure-Level Enforcement

Critical constraints aren't suggestions in a prompt—they're hard stops enforced before the LLM ever sees the request.

Value Limits

Agent authority level determines maximum decision value. Exceeds limit? Request blocked before LLM processing.

if value > agent.max_value: BLOCK

Sandboxed Execution

New or risky agents execute in sandbox. Dangerous actions staged for approval. Full rollback capability.

sandbox_level: staged | full

Complete LLM Audit

Every prompt, every response, cryptographically signed. Reproduce any decision. Prove what the AI actually said.

request_hash + response_hash

Delegation Chains

Track who authorized whom. Cryptographic proof of delegation. Maximum chain depth enforced.

delegation_chain.verify()

Confidence Routing

Low confidence? Automatic escalation. Below threshold? Human review required. Rules that evolve from outcomes.

if confidence < 0.6: escalate

Policy Evolution

Nightly analysis of policy effectiveness. Retire underperformers. Promote winners. A/B test new rules.

PolicyCritic.evolve()
The Decision Factory

Build Your
Decision Factory

Data flows in. Logic improves. Decisions execute. Every cycle compounds. Agents with identity. Decisions with lineage. Policies that evolve. A system that makes more decisions, better decisions, faster—and gets smarter with every one.

3-5x

Greater impact than isolated AI

24/7

Continuous optimization

100%

Traceable & auditable

Compounding intelligence

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