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5 essays in this series
Becoming AI-native is an act of organizational design, not procurement. The AI-native enterprise is not the company with the most AI tools. It is the one that can coordinate human judgment, machine execution, memory, trust, and governance safely, repeatedly, and accountably.
Trust in the AI-native enterprise is not a policy statement or a compliance posture. It is engineered through identity, authority, provenance, evidence, memory, observability, escalation, and fail-safe control, the connective tissue among cyber, governance, data, and the operating model.
Enterprise identity was built for humans, applications, and service accounts. Agents introduce ephemeral, delegated, contextual identity, and demand that every machine action tie back to an accountable principal.
In the agentic enterprise, the security question is no longer only who accessed what. It is what an authorized machine actor is allowed to decide and do right now. Security becomes the enforcement layer for delegated authority.
Prompts describe intent. Enterprises need contracts that define authority, boundaries, evidence, escalation, and accountability for delegated machine work. The Agent Delegation Contract is one emerging expression of that need.