Complimentary Board White Paper · 14 pages
Governing the Agentic AI Portfolio
The Board paper for The Agentic AI Pilot That Must Become a Business System.
A practical examination of ownership, machine authority, evidence, and the decision to expand, change, pause, or stop an agentic AI pilot.
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INSIDE THE PAPER
A pilot is not a permission slip to scale.
The paper frames expansion as a governed decision. It asks who owns the result, what authority the system may exercise, which operating and economic evidence is credible, and when leadership must intervene.
01 / ACCOUNTABILITY
Name the owner
Connect sponsorship, operating responsibility, and authority to act when the evidence changes.
02 / EVIDENCE
Test the claim
Look beyond a successful demonstration to performance through handoffs, exceptions, full cost, and realized value.
03 / CONTROL
Keep a stop rule
Define the boundaries and decision record that make continued autonomy conditional and reversible.
THE BOARD DECISION
Make every gate consequential.
The paper proposes a risk-tiered 90-day review within a longer operating sequence. At each evidence gate, leaders should record what will continue, change, replicate, suspend, simplify, defer, or stop—and what that means for capital and machine authority.
The question is not whether the pilot looked promising. It is whether the enterprise can govern what happens next.
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Put the evidence in front of the decision.
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Research and analysis by Touch Stone Publishers · Glenn E. Daniels II · Board Intelligence, 2026.