Architecture
Architecture
Cross-layer artifacts. Phase 1 produced the vision and the maturity model; Phase 4 produced the rest, after all 14 layer research tracks completed.
Architecture chapters
These are the guide's core chapters. Read in this order.
- Artifact
- vision-and-target-state.md
- What it settles
- What an agentic enterprise is, what stays human, and how the founding metaphor survived being tested
- Artifact
- maturity-model.md
- What it settles
- The Autonomy-Learning model (A x L), including the oversight-capacity gate on A4 and above
- Artifact
- archetype-grid.md
- What it settles
- The size-by-gravity enterprise archetypes every other chapter writes against
- Artifact
- master-target-state.md
- What it settles
- Three complete architectures (global regulated, mid-market, digital native) over seven common planes
- Artifact
- concerns-by-layers-matrix.md
- What it settles
- Who owns, who enforces, and who inherits each of the ten cross-cutting concerns, plus seven invariants and the open gaps
- Artifact
- memory-pipeline-architecture.md
- What it settles
- The pipeline that converts enterprise data into agent memory across five tiers, with governance per tier
- Artifact
- economics-model.md
- What it settles
- Two levels: cost per run for control, cost per resolved outcome for decisions, with supervision labour counted
- Artifact
- sovereignty-matrix.md
- What it settles
- The five-tier deployment spectrum, classification-routed deployment, and why derived artifacts are where residency actually breaks
- Artifact
- identity-security-model.md
- What it settles
- Identity levels by capability surface, the delegation chain, and the deterministic boundary in its final form
- Artifact
- learning-loops-map.md
- What it settles
- Which loop operates at which layer, the corrected promotion gate, and how instance memory promotes into the flywheel
Source: synthesis/README.md in the evidence repository behind this site.