Can you stop it in time?
AI systems are becoming more capable. Organisations are becoming more dependent on automation. Human oversight only matters if intervention remains possible.
AGDA™ measures Intervention Readiness.
- Detect
- Escalate
- Decide
- Intervene
The honest answer is usually “I think so.”
You have policies. Controls. Governance structures. Committees. Escalation processes. Documentation. All of it real, and all of it necessary. None of it proves the one thing that decides the outcome: at 3am, can the person who can halt the system be reached, authorised, and certain enough to act while acting still costs less than waiting?
Most organisations know what controls they have. Few know whether those controls can intervene in time.
You have probably watched a version of this.
Not because anyone was careless. Because systems act quickly, authority moves through people, and harm can become irreversible before governance has turned into action.
- T+0System event
No signal yet.
The system starts producing decisions outside its limits. Nothing has reached anyone with the authority to act.
- T+6hOperations
Noticed, not stoppable.
Someone sees the deviation. They cannot halt the system, and the route to who can is unclear.
- T+18hManagement
Still compounding.
It reaches management. Authority to halt is still being established. The cost grows by the hour.
- T+36hBoard
The window has closed.
The board is informed. The moment for low-cost intervention has already passed.
The chain was never tested before it had to hold.
Intervention Readiness is the missing measurement.
Capital. Model performance. Control coverage. Incident counts. Audit findings. These matter. But the board-level question is simpler: when a consequential system turns, can the organisation detect, escalate, decide and intervene before harm becomes irreversible? That capability is Intervention Readiness.
Governance Controls Accountability Most organisations cannot evidence whether intervention remains possible when it matters.
Which means you cannot yet answer the question. Can you stop it in time?
AGDA™ is a deterministic assessment of Intervention Readiness.
It reduces reliance on assertion. The output is not a maturity score or a compliance claim. It is a signed verdict on whether intervention completes inside the harm window.
- 01 Before impact Intervention completes in time. The window stays open.
- 02 At risk Completes within a margin ordinary pressure can erode.
- 03 After impact Intervention lands too late. The window has closed.
Can you stop it in time?
Stronger Intervention Readiness supports better oversight, better decisions, and more confident deployment.