Curated collections
Each collection has explicit inclusion criteria, a capped editorial lead set, and query-derived remaining cases. Cases may appear in more than one collection because decision rights, workflow structure, and evidence conditions are orthogonal.
Bundle 1.0.0 · reviewed 2026-08-23
Human still decides · 36 cases
The strongest operating models do not confuse automation with abdication. These cases move preparation, ranking, drafting, or routine execution to AI while keeping a named person accountable for the consequential decision, exception, or policy boundary.
Open collection →Queue eliminated · 30 cases
Cycle time falls materially when organizations stop feeding every item through the same serial queue. These cases use straight-through lanes, redesigned intake, coordinated routing, or exception-based work to remove waiting rather than merely accelerate one task.
Open collection →Regulated autonomy · 30 cases
In regulated and safety-sensitive work, the relevant design question is not whether AI acts. It is what lane it may act within, which controls are deterministic, who owns the exception, and where a licensed or accountable person must intervene.
Open collection →Embodied work · 28 cases
These systems touch vehicles, fields, production lines, infrastructure, laboratories, or material movement. Their authority is constrained by physics, safety envelopes, local operators, and fallback procedures that cannot be abstracted away.
Open collection →Negative results · 10 cases
A useful evidence base includes systems that missed cases, created harm, failed to improve the target metric, or worked only inside a bounded capability frontier. These records make the limits visible instead of selecting only favorable outcomes.
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