How to operate: set authority and approvals
A capable Artificial Being still needs boundaries. Trust is not all-or-nothing, and the teams who get the most from LeedAB are precise about it.
This chapter is about deciding what runs on autopilot, what stops for a human, and how work escalates when the situation calls for judgment - so routine, reversible work carries itself and the moments that matter still pause for a person.
Sort the work by consequence
Walk the steps you mapped in Chapter one and mark each as autopilot or approval. The test is simple: how costly is it if this goes wrong, and how easily can it be undone? Low-stakes and reversible runs on its own. High-stakes or irreversible waits for a human.
- Autopilot - drafting, reconciling, chasing, sorting, and surfacing.
- Approval - sending money, signing, committing to a customer, changing access.
- Escalation - anything the AB is unsure about or has not seen before.
Make approvals fast and legible
An approval gate should take seconds, not meetings. LeedAB brings the decision to the owner with the context attached - what the AB wants to do, why, and what it is drawing on - so a person can approve, edit, or redirect in one move.
Keep a clear record
Every action and approval is logged, so you can always see what ran, who signed off, and what the AB was working from. That record is what makes autonomy safe to expand.
Give an AB the freedom to carry routine work, and reserve human judgment for the moments that actually need it.
Once one role runs reliably with the right guardrails, you can grow. That is Chapter four.