Ordinant

The ideas and machinery behind Ordinant.

Essays on decisions, authority, evidence and the machinery institutions need around them.

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It follows thirty years of enterprise software along three tracks, data, identity and workflow, to the one thing none of them produced: the decision itself. The essays below go further into those tracks.

“The model will learn how we work.”

Can a company’s history tell software what to decide?

“We’ll capture the why from traces.”

When can an earlier decision settle the work in front of you?

“The agent has an identity and permissions.”

What settles whether this particular act should happen?

All essays

  1. The primitive nobody built
  2. Context graphs are more ambitious than they sound
  3. We did this last time
  4. The AI doesn't know who you are
  5. You can't learn a company from its inbox