by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 21, 2026
Every operating model in a company above $500 million in revenue was built around a human approval gate, and the AI systems now running pricing, scheduling, forecasting, and customer resolution do not pass through it. The gate is still there. The policy still cites...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 29, 2026
The client who discovers that the relationship they valued was quietly handed to an algorithm does not file a complaint. There is no service ticket for a trust that already left the building. The client simply routes their next contract to a competitor who kept a...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 28, 2026
In June 2026, shareholders of Alphabet asked the company’s board to do one specific thing: write AI oversight into the Audit Committee’s charter, the same document that used to assign the committee responsibility for human rights risk before that language...
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by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 25, 2026
A Touch Stone Publishers White Paper COO Series | Agentic AI Governance The Finding In many enterprises, the Chief Operating Officer oversees the largest concentration of high-volume agentic workflows. Order fulfillment, customer remediation, scheduling, and quality...
