A workshop that keeps receipts

A small operations team and a neighboring research workshop wired agents to draft, never to finish: every SOP update, every notebook write, every customer promise stayed proposal until a named person approved.

Audits stopped being archaeology. Provenance showed who decided, what changed, and what was refused. Creative experiments still moved fast — they just stopped rewriting shared truth by accident.

Organizations do not need theater security. They need honest readiness, owned records, and review before write when the stakes are real.