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LADDER 1
Sovereign System of Record
Outcomes: Data Sovereignty, Continuity, Efficiency and Disaster Recovery.
Rungs: Self-hosted AI with data residency, LLM tracing, Agent memory and state persistence, Tenant isolation, Tamper-evident audit log, Artifact provenance, Chain-of-thought capture, LLM cost observability, Information governance.
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LADDER 2
Certified Agents
Outcomes: Qualified Intelligence and Provider Independence.
Rungs: Held-out eval, Model validation, Agent identity and least-privilege access, Exit examination at discharge, CPD and resit to 100%, Model routing, Guardian Agents, Agent orchestration.
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LADDER 3
Runtime Inspection and Enforcement
Outcomes: Safe Operations, Clean Delivery, Verifiable Traceability, Autonomous Operation and Human Control.
Rungs: Tool-call authorization, Output guardrails, Policy-as-code, Policy decision log, Decision register, Tool permission policy, Human approval for high-risk actions, Response guardrails, Search provenance, Policy decision metrics.
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LADDER 4
Sealed Deterministic Workflows
Outcomes: Safe Operations, Clean Delivery, Verifiable Traceability, Autonomous Operation and Disaster Recovery.
Rungs: Step validation, Mutation testing, Validation change control, Required checks, Verified backup and rollback, Release validation, Guardrail mutation testing, Work intake requirements, Autonomous agent runtime.
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LADDER 5
Quality Management System
Outcomes: Self-correction and Autonomous Operation.
Rungs: Incident ticketing, Root-cause analysis, CAPA, Regression testing, Issue tracking.
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LADDER 6
Deterministic Alignment
Outcomes: Self-improvement.
Rungs: Error analysis, Prompt optimization, Before-and-after eval, Eval-driven development, Lessons-learned log.