Which vertical have you actually built?

Security. We run the four steps on our own operation: the corpus is our system and its controls, the evaluation set is a 25-control NIST AI RMF scorecard, the regulatory envelope is that framework, and the reference org chart is a governance unit with eight specialists. It is measured weekly and published, including the controls where we score zero.

What does method-ready mean?

That the four steps are defined and proven, not that the vertical is built. We will not describe a market as delivered until a system in it has been assessed, measured and handed over. Saying which is which is the point.

Why does the regulated envelope matter so much?

Because it decides the shape of the org chart. Where a regulator requires a named human approver, that becomes an approval gate an agent cannot pass. Where records must be retained, that becomes a logging control. The compliance requirement is not paperwork bolted on afterwards; it is the structure.

Do I need to be in one of these eight markets?

No. These are where the operational depth and the regulatory weight make a structural system pay back fastest. The method works for any business whose operations are complex enough to need an org chart.

Niche markets

Eight markets where an org chart beats a chatbot.

Energy, oil and gas, distribution, security, financial, healthcare, retail and marketing. What these have in common is operational depth and regulatory weight — the two conditions under which a general-purpose assistant stops being useful and a structured system starts paying for itself. We build into them with the same four-step method, and we say plainly which ones we have built and which we have not.

The four requirements How the systems are built

The method

Four things a vertical system needs before it ships

A system that has read your industry's documents is not a vertical system. It needs to be measured in your domain, constrained by your regulator, and shaped like your operation. Skip any of the four and what you have is a general assistant wearing your industry's vocabulary.

Built means measured and published. Method-ready means the steps are proven, not that the vertical is delivered.

01

Domain corpus

The documents, schemas, procedures and history the system reasons over — your permits, your manifests, your policies, your tickets. Assembled, versioned and access-controlled, so an agent's answer can be traced to the source it came from rather than to a model's memory.

02

Evaluation set

Questions from your domain with known-good answers. Without it, "the strongest model for the task" is a vendor's claim. With it, model selection is a measurement you can repeat — and re-run every time a new model ships, which is roughly monthly.

03

Regulatory envelope

What your regulator, your auditor and your insurer require. This is not paperwork added at the end — it is the structure. A rule that says a licensed human must approve becomes an approval gate no agent can pass. A retention rule becomes a logging control.

04

Reference org chart

The unit, role, decision-right and escalation design for that industry's operation. It is the deliverable clients keep even if they never run another agent: a written account of who decides what, and what must never be decided automatically.

What the envelope adds

Same method, different constraints

Market	Where the operational depth is	What the envelope adds to the chart	Status
Security	Alert triage, evidence handling, control testing, incident response	Framework scoring, evidence retention, a named accountable owner per control	built & published
Energy	Outage and maintenance scheduling, permit and compliance filing, asset records	Safety cases, separation between operational technology and business systems	method ready
Oil & gas	Field reporting, vendor and lease administration, HSE documentation	Incident reporting duties, contractor accountability, records that survive audit	method ready
Distribution	Order, inventory and exception handling across systems that do not talk	Traceability, customs and origin documentation, carrier liability lines	method ready
Financial	Reconciliation, reporting cycles, client servicing, document review	Supervision requirements, records retention, an auditable decision trail	method ready
Healthcare	Intake, prior authorisation, coding, documentation backlog	Protected health information handling, minimum-necessary access, a clinician gate on clinical judgement	method ready
Retail	Merchandising, pricing, supplier and returns operations	Consumer protection rules, payment data separation, advertising substantiation	method ready
Marketing	Research, production, publication and measurement at volume	Claim substantiation, disclosure duties, brand and legal approval gates	method ready

Status is stated per market on purpose. "Built and published" means a system exists in that vertical, is measured, and the measurement is public — for security, that is our own weekly scorecard. Everywhere else the method is proven and the vertical is not yet delivered, and we would rather write that down than let a logo grid imply otherwise.

The one we built

Security, measured on ourselves

We did not pick security as a vertical because it sells. We picked it because we had to solve it to run an agent fleet safely, and solving it produced all four requirements: a corpus of controls and evidence, a 25-control evaluation set, a regulatory envelope in the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and a governance unit with eight specialists and named owners.

The result is measured weekly and published in full — including where we score zero. That scorecard is both our proof and the instrument we run on clients.

See the audit and our scorecard

The security vertical, built on ourselves and re-measured every week.

Your market

Tell us the operation and we will scope the four steps against it.

Leave your company and the process that costs you the most. You get a written reply naming what the corpus, the evaluation set and the envelope would have to cover — and whether a structural system is worth it for you at all.