Create a review council for accountability
We established a small council drawn from engineering, risk and compliance. Its role is to approve accountability before deployment, not technology itself. For every level 2 or level 3 workflow, the group confirms three things: who owns the outcome, what rollback exists and how explainability will be achieved. This step protects our ability to move fast without being frozen by oversight after launch.
Build explainability into the system
Each autonomous workflow must record what triggered its action, what rule it followed and what threshold it crossed. This is not just good engineering hygiene. In regulated environments, someone will eventually ask why a system acted at a specific time. If you cannot answer in plain language, that autonomy will be paused. Traceability is what keeps autonomy allowed.
Over time, these practices have reshaped how our teams think. We treat autonomy as a partnership, not a replacement. Humans provide context and ethics. AI provides speed and precision. Both are accountable to each other.
