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Execution must be admissible.
A new operating model for automated institutions — where institutional consequence occurs only through admissible execution.
Most enterprises govern everything except execution.
- Automated systems generate candidate actions across the enterprise (AI, workflow engines, APIs, event-driven automation).
- Execution systems bind real-world consequence by mutating enterprise state.
- Governance typically occurs after execution (logs, audit, explainability).
- This creates a control gap at the moment of commit.
If an organisation cannot prove an action was admissible at the moment it executed, it does not have governance — it has liability.
What is an Execution-Bound Enterprise?
An Execution-Bound Enterprise is an operating model in which institutional consequence can occur only through admissible execution.
- Decisions may be generated freely (what could happen).
- Admissibility is determined at execution (what is allowed to happen).
- Execution occurs only when admissibility is proven (what actually happens).
The Operating Model
Sources of Action
AI, workflow engines, rules, human decisions
Execution Admissibility Boundary
Non-bypassable commit control that re-resolves admissibility at execution
Execution Systems
Where consequence becomes irreversible (state is mutated)
Evidence & Authority Lifecycle
Where execution is proven and authority evolves
Architectural Invariant
No state transition without proven integrity. Admissibility is re-resolved at the point of execution.
Why this is the next stage of enterprise architecture
Enterprise architecture evolves from integration, to coherence, to governed execution.
- Fluid Enterprise: systems integrate rapidly.
- Coherent Enterprise: meaning is aligned through semantic architecture.
- Execution-Bound Enterprise: execution is governed through admissibility at commit.
Enterprise Maturity Model
Execution Admissibility Architecture
Execution Admissibility Architecture governs the boundary between decision generation and execution.
It determines whether proposed state transitions are admissible before institutional consequence binds.
Admissibility is resolved at execution based on:
- Authority
- State
- Constraints
- Context
- Evidence
SCIA Reference Architecture
SCIA Runtime — Stateful Contextual Integrity Architecture (SCIA) — is the reference architecture that implements Execution Admissibility Architecture at runtime.
SCIA governs state transitions, not decisions.
It enforces the invariant:
No state transition without proven integrity.
SCIA Runtime ensures that system state can only move forward if its integrity can be proven at the moment of execution.
Architecture of Record (AoR)
The Architecture of Record identifies where institutional consequence binds and where execution must be controlled.
- Identify irreversible execution surfaces
- Locate uncontrolled commit points
- Define where admissibility boundaries must be introduced
Authority Pressure Test™
A focused diagnostic to identify where execution is occurring without admissibility control.
Outputs:
- Execution boundary mapping
- Authority lineage analysis
- Irreversibility register
- Admissibility design blueprint
Explore the architecture of admissible execution
Boundary
This page describes an architectural operating model and associated diagnostic services.
It does not assert regulatory compliance or provide assurance.
Accountability for decisions and execution remains with the organisation.
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