Autonomy Without a Leash Is a Liability

"Autonomous agent" means two different things depending on who's saying it. One version means nobody's watching. The other means the work runs on its own and every step is on the record. Only the second one belongs anywhere near your money.

Here's how the fleet is wired. Every job runs governed. Before anything touches your systems, it clears a check. When the job's done, it leaves a signed receipt — what ran, what it produced, and whether the evidence actually held up.

Why the receipt beats the answer

Anything can tell you it handled something. A receipt records whether it did. When the two don't line up, the receipt is the honest one — and it's the one we keep.

That's the move, and it's not a small one: real autonomy, accountability built into the same loop, and a trail you get to read. Speed you can trust beats speed you've got to babysit.