THE MISSING CHAIR / DREADNOUGHT AI GOVERNANCE

GOVERNED WORKFLOW PILOT

Can an AI agent find the evidence
and stop before money moves?

A proposed 10-business-day, sandbox-only pilot for supplier bank-detail changes. We map the client’s actual process, assign decision rights, test failure paths, and compare the evidence trail with the current workflow.

NO LIVE PAYMENT ACCESSHUMAN DECISIONSRECONSTRUCTABLE EVIDENCE
THE COMPETITIVE QUESTION

Workflow context helps.
Decision authority governs.

Scribe’s current product page describes automatic workflow capture, exception context, and MCP/API access for AI tools. DREADNOUGHT tests the adjacent control problem: what evidence an agent must assemble, who may decide, and what forces the agent to stop.

SCRIBE PAGE · VENDOR STATEMENTS

What Scribe reports

The page reports 94% Fortune 500 reach, 90,000 enterprises, and 50% better agent output based on a customer survey and MCP benchmark.

These are Scribe’s statements. This page does not independently verify adoption or performance claims.Review Scribe’s page
INDEPENDENT RISK EVIDENCE

Why this workflow

FBI IC3 describes business email compromise involving vendor impersonation and changed payment instructions. Its guidance recommends verifying changes through a known contact channel.

This supports the choice of a high-risk workflow. It does not validate this proposed design or prove comparative performance.Read FBI IC3 guidance
ONE NARROW WORKFLOW

Supplier bank-detail
change requests.

These requests combine legitimate business administration with a known impersonation and payment-diversion risk. The reference flow below starts the discovery discussion; the client’s process owner must confirm or correct each step before testing.

01

Capture the request

The agent drafts a case with the supplier, requested change, source messages, and supporting records.

02

Check and flag

It checks required fields and surfaces mismatches, urgency, unfamiliar contacts, or missing evidence.

03

Verify outside the request

The supplier owner confirms the change through a known number already on file. A number supplied in the request does not qualify.

04

Approve and execute

An AP approver accepts or rejects. A separate authorized operator updates the record under the client’s policy.

EXPLICIT DECISION RIGHTS

The agent prepares.
Named people decide.

Discovery will identify actual role holders and approved systems. This proposed division of authority sets the pilot’s starting boundary.

AGENT MAY
  • Extract request details into a draft case
  • Check required fields and compare against approved records
  • Flag mismatches and missing evidence
  • Prepare a source-linked review packet and audit trail
HUMANS RETAIN
  • Supplier identity confirmation through a known channel
  • Approval or rejection of the requested change
  • Vendor-record updates and payment execution
  • Policy exceptions, escalation, and final accountability
Any stop signal means hold and route to a named human.

The agent never contacts the supplier, changes bank records, releases payment, infers approval, or overrides client policy.

10 BUSINESS DAYS · DISCOVERY AND SANDBOX

Test the controls
before expansion.

We first map the real process with the workflow owner, AP control owner, and security contact. Then we run sanitized examples in a sandbox and review the evidence together. The pilot does not touch production payment systems.

PROPOSED PILOT BOUNDARY
  • Synthetic or redacted cases only
  • Least-privilege, read-only sandbox
  • No production write access or live payment rail
  • Client owners retain every decision
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SUCCESS MEANS MEASURED CONTROL

Count what the agent
caught and respected.

Compare results with a client-approved baseline. No fraud reduction, time savings, or superiority claim appears until the pilot measures it.

Evidence completenessWere required records and checks present?
Correct routingDid cases reach the right decision owner?
Missed high-risk casesHow many injected fraud or exception cases passed unflagged?
Reviewer effortHow did review time compare with baseline?
Decision traceabilityCan a reviewer reconstruct sources, checks, approvals, and holds?
Unauthorized actionsTarget: zero agent actions outside the approved boundary.

Stop the test if a control fails, an unauthorized action occurs, or a decision cannot be reconstructed from the evidence.

A CLIENT-VALIDATED PILOT

Start with the process
you actually run.

The next step requires a process owner, an AP control owner, sanitized examples, and agreement on the test boundary. The engagement begins only after the workflow and access rules receive client approval.