PLATFORM LAYER
Sponsor control plane
Create reusable workflow templates, control intent and outcome definitions across the portfolio.
The Ordinal platform
The infrastructure between a portfolio playbook and the work getting done.
Ordinal distributes the method, keeps execution local and produces the evidence needed to operate AI responsibly at portfolio scale.
Discuss a portfolio pilot ↗Three-layer model
Designed around independent companies.
Shared infrastructure should increase portfolio leverage without weakening management accountability.
PLATFORM LAYER
Portfolio-company runtime
Configure, approve and execute the workflow inside each company’s systems and data boundary.
PLATFORM LAYER
Evidence and outcomes
Produce structured receipts locally and return only approved, comparable measures to the sponsor.
Control packs
Make the operating method deployable.
A control pack joins the process, permissions, checkpoints and outcome definition that make a workflow safe enough to run and useful enough to measure.
Bounded agents
Authority is explicit, observable and reversible.
Every agent operates inside a versioned permission envelope. Local teams can pause execution, change thresholds or withdraw a release without sponsor intervention.
RUNTIME / NORTHSTAR-MGAOperational
Active releaseClaims review 2.4
Tools3 / 4 allowed
Human gates3 mandatory
Exception rate4.8%
Last approval18 Aug, 14:32
Evidence layer
From policy to proof, one run at a time.
A receipt links the exact release, inputs, actions and accountable interventions to the outcome that followed.
EVIDENCE RECEIPT
CLM-2048 / 0142- Workflow
- Claims review 2.4
- Control pack
- INS-UK 1.8
- Local approval
- 2 of 2
- Human checkpoints
- 3 passed
- Exceptions
- 1 resolved
- Evidence integrity
- Matched
Run signature
9d2a…c71fDesign-partner programme
Start with two companies and one repeatable workflow.
A 12-week programme to prove control, operational value and second-company reuse.