Wollit production protocol Question rate 40% → 20%
The system of record for AI agent authority

Turn company judgment into machine authority.

Your agents know how to execute. PolicyLayer teaches them what they are authorised to decide.

PolicyLayer captures what your company has already decided, routes unresolved cases to the person who owns the decision, and turns approved precedent into reusable policy for every agent.

Model agnostic Failure grants less autonomy Exportable by design
Live judgment record Case 00418 / Customer operations / Playbook v13
Policy silent

Can we move this customer’s repayment date a second time?

The existing playbook permits one repayment-date change. It does not say whether a second change is allowed when the customer has already made a partial payment.

Agent proposes Approve until 28 July, then return to the original schedule.
01 / The authority problem

Every agent is either over-trusted or under-used.

01 / OVER-TRUSTED

The agent acts where company judgment is missing.

It has enough intelligence to execute and enough access to cause consequences, but no reliable way to know what your company would decide at the edge of the playbook.

02 / UNDER-USED

Every ambiguity becomes another human queue.

The agent escalates routine exceptions, the same questions recur, and the people with the most judgment become the bottleneck the automation was meant to remove.

The companies that win the agent era will not have the smartest models. Everyone has those. They will have judgment that is legible enough to delegate.

02 / The judgment loop

Asked once. Captured once. Reused wherever it applies.

01

Serve the playbook

Every agent starts with the latest approved version of company policy, signed and cached locally.

02

Ask the owner

When policy does not settle a case, the agent pauses and sends one focused question to the person who owns the decision.

03

Capture precedent

The answer resolves the live case and enters the governed ledger with its context, owner and provenance.

04

Promote the rule

When similar decisions recur, PolicyLayer drafts a reusable rule. A human approves, edits or rejects it.

05

Expand authority

Every relevant agent receives the approved rule. That class of case no longer needs to escalate.

03 / First evidence

The loop is already bending the question rate.

PolicyLayer ran in shadow mode against Wollit’s production support queue. Real cases produced real questions, founder answers became approved rules, and the next batch was measured against the new playbook.

Real cases analysed
50+

Historic replay and live production tickets, truncated before the team’s answer.

Question rate
40→20%

After one governed promotion pass of seven approved rules.

Repeat questions
6→0

Questions from ruled-on classes in the post-promotion batch.

False-confidence cases
0

The agent stopped every time company judgment was genuinely missing.

04 / The durable asset

Models change. Judgment remains.

Prompts change, models get replaced and fine-tuning weights become obsolete. PolicyLayer stores the learning outside the model as governed policy and precedent.

Lineplaybook / customer-operations / v14Provenance
001rule repayment_date_second_changeCASES 418, 391, 376
002when partial_payment = trueOWNER: OPS
003and previous_changes = 1APPROVED 18-07-26
004authority: act_with_approvalVERSION 14
005expires: review_in_90_daysSIGNED
Execution modelModel A
Execution modelModel B
Company judgmentPreserved in full ✓
05 / Horizontal by design

One loop. Every decision domain.

01

Customer operations

Refunds, exceptions, account treatment and customer promises.Live at Wollit
02

Finance

Payments, credits, write-offs, counterparties and approval thresholds.Same loop
03

Engineering

Deployments, rollbacks, production changes and reversibility decisions.Same loop
04

Security

Access grants, unusual activity, sensitive data and elevated-risk actions.Same loop
05

Commercial

Discounts, contract exceptions, service terms and non-standard commitments.Same loop
06 / The autonomy report

Authority is earned, not assumed.

Every promotion is backed by ledger evidence. See escalations fall, policy coverage rise and classes of work move safely from draft to act alone.

Support agent / Authority reportLast 30 days
Auto resolution80%
Escalations↓ 50%
Human overrides0
Questions per 100 cases
Escalate
Draft
Act with approval
Act alone

Agents are going to run the world’s companies. PolicyLayer is how company judgment becomes machine authority.

Start with one agent. Find the gaps in its playbook. Answer each question once.

Replay your first twenty cases, see where your agent needs judgment, then take the loop live.