Autonomy
How independently a crew operates. Set as a tier for each crew.
Why Ceez · Governed autonomy
Autonomy without uncontrolled authority.
AI starts by suggesting, and acts alone only inside the limits you set, after tests pass. One control pauses every crew.
- Start by watching.
- Widen as it earns trust.
- Pause in one click.
Three questions
Autonomy, authority and consequence.
Autonomy is not authority, and neither says how much an action matters. Each one has its own controls. Govern
Authority
What it is allowed to do. Roles, and tools granted step by step.
Consequence
How much the action matters. Spend limits, and two approvers for larger actions.
How it is earned
Start by watching. Widen as it earns trust.
A crew begins in shadow mode. Autonomy is raised only after evaluations pass.
- Level 1
Suggest only
The crew proposes and explains. People do the work.
- Level 2
Approve every action
A named person approves each step before it runs.
- Level 3
Approve the exceptions
Routine work inside the limits runs on its own.
- Level 4
Autonomous within limits
The crew runs the objective, on the record.
How it is limited
What stops an action.
The limits apply at every level, whatever the tier.
- Anything past a limit stops and asks its named approver.
- Larger actions need two people.
- Out-of-authority actions go to a named human.
- Policy hooks and guardrails screen what a crew produces before it acts.
- Before a step runs, Ceez works out which tools it may use, and pins that set so it can be reconstructed later.
- Actions run under the identity of the person they are for, not a shared account.
One control pauses every crew: the one-click pause.
How it is governed
Every action stays on the record.
People review suggestions and decide on exceptions. Every action goes on a record that shows if anyone edits it. Evaluations come before autonomy is raised, so each step up is tested first.
What was done
Each action, the step it belonged to and the objective it served.
On whose authority
The limit it ran inside, and the person who approved anything past it.
Whether it was changed
A record that shows if anyone edits it, and that an auditor can replay.
Read next
The controls, in full.
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See how Ceez turns a real business objective into a working, governed AI workforce. A Ceez engineer uses the FDE Workbench to understand your environment, ground the objective and show you how it would run, with controls from day one.
- A 45-minute walkthrough with an engineer
- Your objective, scoped against your own systems
- Your environment: your cloud, your data center, or air-gapped
- Your controls, from day one
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