Where the work is planned, and each step approved
The Project Layer is the console operators use to set out a piece of AI work, break it into steps an agent can carry, approve each step and see what has been done. It is the companion to the Decision Bus and is in production for our own delivery.
The problem
A decision inbox answers one question well: may this happen? It does not answer the questions that come before and after. What are we trying to build? Which parts are safe to hand to an agent and which need a person? How far along is it, and what is waiting on whom? Without a place for the plan, the approvals in the inbox are disconnected from the reasons for them.
What we built
A console that sits alongside the Decision Bus. An operator writes down the work in plain terms, splits it into steps, and marks which steps an agent may carry and which stop for a person. Each step's approvals flow through the Bus, so the plan and the decisions are one record rather than two. The console shows what has been done, what is in progress and what is blocked, for every project we are running.
It is in production for aXai's own delivery, which includes the AI and software projects we build for clients.
The judgement it took
The tempting version of this tool is a project-management board with an AI button on it. We went the other way: the unit of planning is the decision, not the task. A step is only defined when someone has said what would need approving inside it. That makes the plan slower to write and much easier to trust.
It also set the size of a step. A step has to be small enough for an operator to judge in one sitting, and large enough that an agent can carry it without asking for direction at every turn. Finding that size took several rounds on our own projects.
The evidence we can show
The plans and step records for our own work, with identifying details removed. On your project, you can see the plan, the steps and the approvals as they happen, and keep the record when the work is done.
What you can buy from this now
Planned, visible and approved AI work on the projects we build with you.
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Why aXai
aXai is a disability-led AI, software and accessibility company. We build AI systems, software, and concepts and prototypes ready to scale, and we deliver them through AI-supported work: skilled people with disability in real, properly paid roles, working to clear quality standards, with AI removing the barriers and people keeping the accountability.
Every project runs on our own infrastructure, the Decision Bus and Project Layer, so each step is planned, signed off by a person and on the record. That is our operating advantage. Read how it works.
Talk to us about it
Tell us the problem you are trying to solve and we will say plainly what we can do with it, and what is planned next.