Authority Discovery
Identify the decisions that matter, where they live today, and where authority crosses functions. Capture ownership, inputs, and dependencies.
Decision Authority Before Systems Act
Mesa Point designs and validates decision authority for organizations deploying automated and AI-driven execution.
We define ownership, escalation, and stop conditions before systems can commit pricing, capital, customer terms, or operational actions.
Why Decision Authority Comes First
As automation moves from analysis to execution, authority becomes a structural risk.
Decisions that once required deliberate approval can now execute continuously. When ownership, escalation paths, and stop conditions are not explicit in advance, accountability arrives after financial movement, customer commitment, or operational impact has already occurred.
Mesa Point exists to make authority explicit and verifiable before execution scales.
What Mesa Point Does
Mesa Point defines the authority layer that governs when and how automated systems are permitted to act.
We translate executive decision authority into enforceable boundaries that leadership can own and engineering can implement.
Decision Authority Definition
Defines who owns each decision, what inputs are required, and where authority transfers across functions.
Escalation and Stop Conditions
Specifies approval thresholds, escalation routing, stop/pause triggers, and intervention criteria before execution is allowed.
Finality and Commitment Controls
Governs decisions that create irreversible outcomes, including financial movement, contractual commitment, customer terms, or external system actions.
Authority Validation in Practice
Validates that execution behavior matches approved authority using a structured decision authority visibility environment.
Authority Validation Environment
Mesa Point uses a proprietary decision authority visibility environment during engagements to capture decision ownership, dependencies, progress, exceptions, and escalation behavior in real time.
This allows authority frameworks to be validated against actual execution behavior rather than interviews or retrospectives.
The environment supports executive reporting and engineer-ready outputs. It is used to validate authority during the engagement and is not operated as a permanent production system.
Authority ownership and execution remain with the organization.
How Mesa Point Works
Mesa Point operates between leadership, risk owners, and engineering to ensure decision authority is explicit before execution scales.
Engagements are time-bounded. Mesa Point remains involved through validation of authority in practice, then transfers full ownership to designated executives and delivery teams.
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Authority Definition
Define explicit approval thresholds, escalation routing, and stop conditions. Resolve authority collisions before they appear in automated paths.
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Authority Encoding Review
Review workflows and system designs to confirm authority boundaries are enforceable before implementation proceeds.
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Authority Validation
Validate authority in operation using real-time visibility of progress, exceptions, and escalation behavior. Address drift before it becomes exposure.
Engineers receive clear guidance on:
- Which decisions are authorized for encoding and which are prohibited
- Required approvals and threshold logic
- Escalation routing and stop/pause conditions
- Required audit events and validation evidence
Working With Engineering and Delivery Teams
Mesa Point works directly with the teams responsible for building and operating automated decision workflows.
We do not direct technical implementation. We define the authority conditions that must be satisfied for implementation to proceed.
Mesa Point ensures the boundary between execution and accountability remains intact as systems scale.
When authority must be explicit before execution scales, Mesa Point provides the structure and validation to make it enforceable.
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