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Decision accountability map
Mandate, not hierarchy
Organization design
The chart does not show who reports to whom. It shows who owns which decisions.
Vantera kept its capability homes — turbine craft, diagnostics, pricing, quality. What it replaced was the approval hierarchy that used to sit on top of them. Two roles carry that weight now.
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Global Decision Owner (GDO)
Reports to: Group Executive Committee
The top manager for a set of capabilities. A GDO owns the intent that governs them, the portfolio of corridors that direct them, the autonomy each corridor is allowed to hold, and the decision economics of the whole scope.
Owns
- ·Intent for the scope, in language precise enough to constrain a machine
- ·Corridor portfolio: what gets built, what gets merged, what gets stopped
- ·Autonomy promotion and demotion authority
- ·Decision P&L: latency, cost per decision, quality, learning velocity
- ·The stop button, and the willingness to use it
Never does
Approves an individual transaction inside their own corridors.
A Tuesday
Reads two corridor signatures before 08:00. Refuses a promotion package because the exception path was thinning. Rewrites one sentence of intent for the uptime corridor, which changes eleven downstream constraints by lunchtime. Spends the afternoon with a customer whose fleet is the reason the intent needed rewriting.
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Decision Architect
Reports to: Global Decision Owner
Senior humans who design decisions. An architect turns a recurring commitment into a corridor: intent statement, guardrails as code, intelligence routing, human checkpoint, escalation triggers, evidence specification, and the fallback when it all fails.
Owns
- ·Corridor design and its charter
- ·The constraint library entries authored in their scope
- ·Intelligence routing policy and its cost signature
- ·The encoding backlog: which human judgment gets written down next
- ·Red-team cases run against the corridor each quarter
Never does
Ships a guardrail that no human can name the author of.
A Tuesday
Shadows a claims handler for two hours and discovers the real rule was never written down. Writes it as a constraint with the handler named as its author. Runs it against 4,000 historical claims before lunch, finds 19 disagreements, and reads every one. Ships the constraint at 16:00 with a review date.
The rest of the enterprise
Five more roles, all of them load-bearing.
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Corridor Steward
↳ Decision Architect
The pilot on live water. Stewards run corridors day to day, hold the exception path, read the monthly signature, and pull the stop when the evidence says so.
Never: Optimises the exception path out of existence.
210 named authors
Constraint Author
↳ Their capability home; accountable to a Decision Architect
The people whose thresholds became the guardrails. Most were approvers before; the approval disappeared, the judgment did not. Every constraint in the library carries an author's name and a review date.
Never: Delegates authorship to a model.
28 homes
Capability Home Lead
↳ Chief Operations Officer
Functions did not disappear at Vantera; they became capability homes. Craft, standards, certification and specialist depth live here — the turbine method, the diagnostics discipline, the pricing community. Homes staff the corridors; corridors do not own people.
Never: Runs a coordination meeting to relay information a corridor already carries.
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Memory Curator
↳ Global Decision Owner
Organizational memory is a governed asset, not a folder. Curators keep decision logs, playbooks, the constraint library and outcome data versioned, provenanced and retrievable — and they retire what has gone stale.
Never: Lets a memory store grow without a retirement path.
1,180 agent instances across 7 corridors
Agent fleet
↳ The corridor that employs it
Software actors hold decision rights on exactly the same terms as people: a named scope, an explicit boundary, an evidence trail and autonomy that is earned, bounded and reversible.
Never: Holds a right that no human owner can name.
Explorer
Five Global Decision Owners.
Global Decision Owner · Promise & Commercial
Ingrid Sahlberg
Owns everything Vantera promises a customer, and the cost of promising it.
Capabilities governed
- Commercial desk
- Contract engineering
- Service engineering
- Reliability analytics
Decision Architects reporting
- Marek Dvořák
- Priya Raghunathan
- Elena Ferraro
Corridor portfolio
Vantera Industrial Group is a constructed illustration. Every figure on this site is ordinary and invented, in the manner the book requires of its own worked examples.