Authority Should Expand More Slowly Than Assistance
June 2, 2026·4 min readAndrew Cherry
The single most important design distinction in AI-enabled agency work is between what the machine drafts and what the machine decides.
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Assistance can expand quickly. A draft is a draft. A summary is a summary. A person reviews and takes responsibility.
Authority should expand slowly. The moment the machine acts without a human check, the workflow inherits a new class of risk, and the agency inherits a new class of oversight.
The Regesta design principle: expand assistance every quarter, expand authority once a year, and never on the same workflow at the same time.
“Assistance every quarter. Authority once a year. Never on the same workflow at the same time.”
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