THE DUTYGRAPH FIELD GUIDE

Understand the work.
Make a better next decision.

Start with the questions. Understand the landscape. Put the limits in writing.

THE BIG PICTURE

AI governance starts with the work.

A practical guide to AI governance: responsibilities, risk, access, evidence, and the first questions to ask your team.

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FROM POLICY TO A TASK

Before an agent acts, define its job.

A practical AI agent governance checklist covering human ownership, tasks, scopes, approvals, exceptions, and lifecycle changes.

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THE GOVERNANCE LANDSCAPE

One landscape. Several different jobs.

Explore a source-linked map of AI governance, agent identity, access governance, and DutyGraph’s work-discovery layer.

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A PRACTICAL WORKSHEET

Put the agent’s boundaries in writing.

Download an editable agent manifest JSON worksheet for human ownership, duties, tasks, software scopes, approvals, and lifecycle review.

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PREPARE THE EVALUATION

Find the gaps before the pilot starts.

An AI governance readiness checklist for a scoped enterprise evaluation: sponsor, workflow, evidence, access, data, and review.

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A WORKED EXAMPLE

Follow the request all the way to the limit.

A practical agent approval workflow: request, work context, scope review, approval, issuance, and evidence of downstream enforcement.

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CHECK THE COMBINATION

One agent should not quietly become both sides of a check.

Understand separation of duties for AI agents with a supplier-record example, combined-scope review, and evidence for human checkpoints.

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Understand how work happens

Field guide

Business operations audit checklist: investigate the work, not just the tools.

A practical operations audit checklist covering scope, ownership, inputs, handoffs, exceptions and evidence. Includes an ungated working template.

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Field guide

If every exception comes back to you, map the dependency before delegating.

Find where work depends on the owner’s knowledge, decisions, relationships or access. Use a practical dependency log before redesigning responsibilities.

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Field guide

Process discovery interview questions that get beyond the job description.

Use practical prompts to uncover tasks, inputs, exceptions and handoffs. Includes a leadership kickoff guide and an employee request you can adapt.

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Field guide

Capture tribal knowledge without asking every expert to become a technical writer.

Capture the exceptions, judgment and handoffs that SOPs can miss. Use contextual voice or text responses, evidence review and clear ownership.

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Field guide

Roles, responsibilities and tasks: a template that reaches the actual work.

Go beyond a job title. Map duties, tasks, owners, performers, inputs and handoffs with an editable CSV and a worked example.

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Which tasks should you automate? Compare the work before the tools.

Compare tasks by inputs, exceptions, reviewability and operating value. Use an editable worksheet to choose a bounded automation or AI pilot.

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The task is finished. Why is the next team still waiting?

Investigate missing inputs, unclear ownership and different definitions of done between teams. Includes a practical handoff worksheet.

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Process discovery, process mining and task mining: choose the evidence you need.

Compare interview-led discovery, process mining and task mining by evidence, questions and limitations. Choose a method for the problem you have.

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The quote was accepted. Why is the order still not ready?

A worked quote-to-order example showing sales, finance and operations handoffs, missing inputs, ownership questions and a practical audit scope.

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A business bottleneck is easier to fix when you can see the work around it.

Find business bottlenecks by tracing work, decisions and handoffs. A practical guide for owners and operations leaders who need to know what to fix first.

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Field guide

A RACI matrix clarifies responsibility. The next step is understanding the work.

Learn how to use a RACI matrix, where it stops, and how to connect responsibility labels to real duties, tasks, systems and handoffs.

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Field guide

Process documentation is useful when it describes the work people actually run.

A practical process documentation guide for capturing triggers, steps, systems, exceptions, decisions and handoffs without turning the project into a paperwork exercise.

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