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Automating enterprise governance review tasks reduces human workload

The Last Human Gate: Forward Deployed Engineering for Governance Automation

Abstract: Enterprise governance requires decisions, evidence, and accountable authority; it does not require every review task to retain its current human implementation. We develop a task-substitution framework for Digital Governance Frameworks (DGF), treating each gate as an executable contract. Substitution requires sufficient accessible information, valid decision and authority checks, and a reduction in total human work after exceptions, verification, correction, and maintenance are counted. We derive a residual-work threshold and show why automating most cases can still increase labor. Forward deployed engineering connects these conditions to an architecture for agents, rule engines, evidence services, and escalation. DGF-Bench supplies controlled evidence from 300 synthetic projects and 899 evaluable model-project runs. Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna, and DeepSeek v4.1 Flash achieve strict gate success of 94.98%, 83.29%, and 74.18%; complete-route success is 76.92%, 42.33%, and 24.67%. A deterministic control passes all 1,700 gates given the supplied rules and structured facts, locating the comparison in execution of a supplied decision kernel. Evidence audits and 135 repeated runs distinguish correct decisions from reliable execution. A document counterexample establishes an information-sufficiency obstruction. These results support the technical feasibility of replacing human execution of specified governance-review tasks with agents and software. The framework specifies a workforce test based on the complete human effort required at fixed output and quality; the present measurements concern review performance. Sources, dossiers, traces, and analyses are public.

Thu 24 SeptArtificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering
The gist
Checking and approving tasks in business governance usually need humans, but not every step may need their involvement. The authors developed a way to replace certain human review tasks with software agents that follow rules and use evidence to make decisions. They tested their system on many synthetic projects and showed the software could successfully pass most decision checks while reducing total human effort. This means some governance tasks can be reliably automated without losing accountability or quality.
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