Zeovoice
GOVERNANCE

Governed AI employees need explicit authority—not vague guardrails.

Good governance is an operating design. It determines what the employee owns, what it can access, which actions it may take, and where a person stays in control.

01

Role

Define the business responsibility in plain language. A role should be narrow enough that ownership, success, escalation, and expected systems can be understood without interpretation.

02

Capabilities

List the tasks the employee may perform: answer, classify, capture, schedule, update, route, create, retrieve, or escalate. Capabilities should be explicit rather than inferred from a broad role name.

03

Permissions

Map each capability to the minimum data and systems required. Read access and write access should be distinguished. Sensitive or irreversible actions deserve tighter boundaries.

04

Policies and approvals

Policies convert business rules into action constraints. Approval gates preserve human authority for sensitive actions such as discounts, refunds, commitments, exceptions, or changes above defined thresholds.

05

Actions and evidence

Every material action should be attributable to a request, a policy decision, the relevant authority, and a result. Evidence should help operators answer what happened, why it happened, and whether a person intervened.

06

Governance is ongoing

Roles change, systems change, and edge cases emerge. Review evidence, failed attempts, escalations, policy exceptions, and outcome quality. Tighten or expand authority deliberately instead of allowing it to drift.

TURN THE GUIDE INTO A DECISION

Define the employee before you deploy the employee.

Use Zeovoice to describe the job, review authority, test the workflow, and inspect evidence before production work begins.