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Enterprise Team

Background

A platform engineering manager leading a 50-person organization at a financial services company. Three teams run concurrent AI-agent-assisted projects. Compliance requires audit trails for all agent-generated work. Knowledge silos between teams waste effort through repeated problem-solving.

Goals

  • Establish a governance framework for AI agent work that satisfies compliance
  • Create auditable trails: which agent wrote what, with what context, and was it reviewed
  • Enable cross-team knowledge sharing without sacrificing team autonomy
  • Standardize documentation approach across teams (replacing a mix of wikis, Confluence, and markdown)

Pain Points

  • Cannot answer compliance questions: “Which agent wrote this code?” “What context was it given?”
  • Each team uses a different documentation system — no shared conventions
  • Knowledge duplication: same infrastructure problems solved three times independently
  • No mechanism for cross-team sharing of validated solutions

How They Use aDNA

Deploys aDNA as the standard knowledge architecture across all three teams, each with its own vault:

  • how/sessions/ creates compliance-ready audit trails: session ID, intent, files touched, SITREP
  • who/governance/ provides consistent agent policies and review requirements across teams
  • Federation connects team vaults — shareable pipelines and validated patterns flow between teams via lattice composition
  • Embedded triad deployment (.agentic/) keeps aDNA structure separate from codebases

The enterprise team operates at the intersection of Level 0 (vault usage) and Level 1 (upstream improvements surfaced across three teams).

Self-reference: The session tracking system this vault uses (how/sessions/active/how/sessions/history/YYYY-MM/) is the same audit trail the enterprise team needs for compliance — just at a smaller scale.

Typical Ontology Extensions

EntityTriadPurpose
compliance_checkhow/Audit checkpoints and review sign-offs
team_policywho/Team-specific agent behavior policies
shared_pipelinewhat/Cross-team reusable infrastructure patterns