Decision rights models assume human decision-makers. AI agents breach that assumption silently. Here is how to extend decision rights to cover autonomous actors before the first ungoverned decision becomes a production incident.
Security is treated as a gate at the end of delivery. It should be an architecture property designed into three distinct boundaries. Here is the model that fixes the friction between security and delivery.
Most enterprises build data architectures one layer at a time. Business, logical, and physical layers exist as separate artefacts owned by separate teams. That separation is the structural gap that makes data estates ungovernable.
Organisations debate batch versus real-time as if it is a technical preference. It is not. It is a structural mismatch between data freshness and decision cadence — and the mismatch is where the cost lives.
AI agents are making micro-architecture decisions in production. No ADR recorded them. No review board approved them. No architect ever saw them. Here is the structural fix.