A second look at every decision. With a human still holding the final say.
Council creates Stewards: agents that apply the limits your managers sign off, built from their policies, past approvals and stated priorities. They approve the routine ones inside limits and escalate the rest, with the reason.
Most governance runs through one central team, which becomes a bottleneck. Zelleo’s answer is Fork & Federate: central standards, local judgement.
Draft one Clone Charter for one routine approval and see how much of it a Steward could clear.
Try Council. Click through it the way your team would.
Every figure in the demo comes from a sample data set, not a customer result.
Council copies your best judgement to every team and logs every call.
01 Write the Clone Charter
| Rule | Limit |
|---|---|
| May approve | Same grade, approved supplier |
| Value up to | ₹ 2,00,000 |
| Must escalate | Grade change · new supplier |
- A. A manager signs what the Steward may approve, its limits and what it must escalate.
02 Run a Second Look
| Decision | Steward |
|---|---|
| Substitute 12 mm TMT, same grade | Approved |
| Cement from new supplier | Escalated · new supplier |
| Rebar 16 mm, ₹ 1.4 L | Approved |
- A. The Steward reviews decisions as they happen, in every team, and escalates the rest with the reason.
03 Record the Decision Trace
| Inputs | PO 4471 · stock 0 · alt supplier on panel |
| Rule applied | Same grade, approved supplier |
| Approver | Steward · under charter |
| Override | Open to Projects head |
- A. Inputs, rule applied and approver are saved for every call.
- B. A human can overrule any Steward, any time, and it is logged.
How Council works.
Write the Clone Charter.
A manager signs what the Steward may approve, its limits and what it must escalate.
| Must escalate |
|---|
| Grade change |
| New supplier |
Run a Second Look.
The Steward reviews decisions as they happen, in every team.
Record the Decision Trace.
Inputs, rule applied and approver are saved for every call.
- 10:42Approved under charter · rule 1
Keep the Override Lane open.
A human can overrule any Steward, any time, and it is logged.
| Decision | Substitute 12 mm TMT |
| By | Projects head |
The reversal is logged beside the original call.
What it connects to, what it logs, who approves and where it runs.
| Acts within | Stewards act only within their Clone Charter. |
|---|---|
| Logs | Inputs, rule applied and approver are saved for every call. |
| Who approves | High-impact decisions always need a human. |
| Transparency | Anyone affected by a decision can see that an agent reviewed it, and a person can reverse any Steward decision through the Override Lane. |
High-impact decisions always need a human, and a person can reverse any Steward decision.
Agents act within granted permissions; consequential actions need human approval.