Where AI assists, where humans decide.

It's a dashed line dividing tasks. Above it are assist tasks—drafting, generating, and watching—delegated to AI. Below it are decisions that humans handle. The workflow crosses the line twice, emphasizing human intervention at the critical points. The diagram exists to clarify that AI assists while humans make the key calls.

Because the executive's real concern is accountability, not AI itself. The diagram makes three things clear: every assist task feeds a decide task, so AI never completes a loop independently; every decision has a named owner, assigned to an individual rather than a process; and the rollback loop is rare. Pinning accountability to named humans is what calms the replacement fear.

Every assist task—drafting, generating, watching—feeds into a decide task owned by a human, so the workflow always crosses back to a person before anything is finalized. AI may handle many keystrokes, but the ultimate judgment and decision-making lie with humans. There's no path where the AI closes the loop on its own.

Because responsibilities are assigned to individuals, not processes—which is what addresses the executive concern about accountability. Naming an owner for each decision means there's always a specific person answerable for the call AI assisted with, keeping the approach workforce-first even as AI is integrated into more steps.

That AI is all-encompassing. AI's role is crucial but bounded—it handles many keystrokes while the ultimate judgment and decision-making remain with humans. The diagram doesn't claim AI runs the whole workflow; it shows AI assisting beneath human decision points, keeping the approach workforce-first even as AI is woven into more processes.

By design, AI handles the assist work—drafting, generating, watching—while humans hold every decision, each with a named owner. AI never closes a loop on its own and rollbacks are rare exceptions. So even as AI takes on more keystrokes, final judgment stays with people, which is exactly what workforce-first means in this context.