Canonical: https://ai-nterprise.com/ Language: en Content status: published A book about governing AI in the enterprise Ottaviano De Cicco # Intelligence, *with a mandate.* A framework for governing what your organization knows, decides, and allows AI agents to do. [Explore the book](https://ai-nterprise.com/book/) [Explore the framework](https://ai-nterprise.com/framework/) **Diagram transcript:** The moment of consequence · A specific claim version reaches a gate. Knowledge and Authority converge on the same gate. One conditional route leads to an effect; another holds the proposed use for review. Assurance probes Knowledge, Authority and the gate and sends findings to the correction owner. No assurance connection enters the action route. · What is claimed · What is decided · What happens · v3 · Claim · a specific version · Four independent decisions: standing, persistence, visibility, action enablement · Gate · If enabled for this use · C2 · Effect within scope · Knowledge · Evidence · standing · Authority · Mandate · limits · Use held · Proposal for review · Assurance · independent checks · Owner · correction **The moment of consequence.** Knowledge and authority meet at use time. A held use leaves the stored claim version intact. Four independent decisions: standing · persistence · visibility · action enablement. ### Inside the framework Four dimensions · three planes · three loops Four separate decisions **Standing** Is this claim warranted for this use? **Persistence** What remains eligible for use, and what history must be kept? **Visibility** Who may retrieve which representation and context? **Action enablement** Who may act, within which boundary? Three control planes Knowledge and Authority supply distinct conditions at the gate. Assurance independently tests both planes and the gate. Its findings go to the responsible owner for correction. Three coupled loops **Production** creates work and revisions. **Assurance** challenges and tests. **Learning** turns verified correction into a change in the next relevant case. The square's four edge marks represent separate decisions; they are not four green approval lights. This is the book's reference model. 01 / The framework in practice ## One case, *four moments.* A customer's payment terms. New evidence changes whether an earlier assessment can support the next decision. Chapter 9 · Concept illustration · No action executed Customer payment terms · An illustrative case from Chapter 9 ### A claim supports a proposed change. Assessment v3 supports 60-day terms. No action has been executed. [Video: New accounts require review; a barrier closes before the proposed payment-term change; the earlier version remains in history](https://ai-nterprise.com/assets/case-motion-mobile.mp4) - **Evidence** Customer accounts - **Claim · v3** Liquidity assessment - **Use boundary · open** Barrier across the route - **Proposed effect · Net 60 days** 60-day payment terms 1 · Basis 2 · New evidence 3 · Hold use 4 · History Play animation Select a moment to inspect it. Concept illustration · No action executed. New accounts require review. The affected use is held; the earlier basis remains in history. ![AI-nterprise light paper and green cover](https://ai-nterprise.com/assets/book-cover.png) Forthcoming · Q4 2026 · English edition [Discover the book](https://ai-nterprise.com/book/) 02 / The argument ## The organization *behind the intelligence.* An agent produces an answer. Someone copies it into a report. Another system retrieves it. A team acts on it. Knowledge ### Claim, evidence, and context. The book examines how generated output becomes warranted knowledge. [Explore the vocabulary](https://ai-nterprise.com/glossary/#definitions-title) Judgment ### Review with the power to challenge. Why human judgment and confidence must be assessed alongside machine output. [Read the essays](https://ai-nterprise.com/articles/) Authority ### A mandate at the moment of use. A refund recommendation can be perfectly clear and still lack authority. [Try the action boundary](https://ai-nterprise.com/action-boundary/) Start here [Read the manifesto](https://ai-nterprise.com/articles/manifesto/) [Read the ten principles](https://ai-nterprise.com/framework/#ten-principles) [Use the Four Questions worksheet](https://ai-nterprise.com/tools/#four-questions) 03 / The open framework ## An open foundation. *A shared vocabulary.* The open white paper, version 1.0, defines the model and its limits. White paper · Version 1.0 · 3 September 2026 [Read on Zenodo](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22282125) ![AI-nterprise cover: pale background, deep green AI and central node, dark title and pathways](https://ai-nterprise.com/assets/book-cover.png) 04 / The book ## AI-nterprise Governing Knowledge, Judgment, and Authority in the Age of AI Agents For the leader accountable for what an organization does with what it believes. Forthcoming · Q4 2026 · English edition [Discover the book](https://ai-nterprise.com/book/) [Get the reader's resources](https://ai-nterprise.com/book/#resources) 05 / Ideas ## Questions worth *staying with.* [Explore all Ideas](https://ai-nterprise.com/articles/) [![Three glass screens and a wireframe cube becoming a solid green object](https://ai-nterprise.com/assets/editorial-manifesto.webp) Manifesto · 4 September 2026 ### A Manifesto for the Human-Agent Enterprise The public argument for governing what humans and agents may know, decide, remember, and do together. Read the essay](https://ai-nterprise.com/articles/manifesto/) [![A wireframe cube suspended above concentric green rings](https://ai-nterprise.com/assets/editorial-learning.webp) Essay · 15 July 2026 ### The Model Is Rented. The Learning Must Be Yours. Why corrections and evaluations must become reusable organizational learning. Read the essay](https://ai-nterprise.com/articles/the-model-is-rented/) [![A solid green sculpture and its wireframe counterpart separated by glass](https://ai-nterprise.com/assets/editorial-judgment.webp) Essay · 12 June 2026 ### The Human Hallucination: The AI Failure Mode Nobody Is Measuring Why judging the human–AI pair matters when fluent output changes a person's confidence. Read the essay](https://ai-nterprise.com/articles/the-human-hallucination/) 06 / Practical resources ## Take the questions *into your work.* Four Questions is the complete printable worksheet currently available for the reader. One open download. No account or signup. [Explore the resources](https://ai-nterprise.com/tools/) Preview worksheets · Version and limitations shown with each file.