The company owns the release.
A sponsor can distribute a playbook but cannot activate a local workflow or override local approvers.
Trust at Ordinal
Control should be visible in the product.
Ordinal is being designed so authority, data boundaries, human decisions and evidence are explicit—not buried in a policy document.
Product principles
Local accountability. Portfolio leverage.
Authority is bounded.
Tools, data, thresholds and consequential actions are explicitly allowed, gated or blocked.
Evidence is part of execution.
The workflow creates a usable control record as the work happens, not as a retrospective exercise.
Claims stay honest.
Ordinal supports customer-defined controls. It does not determine obligations or guarantee compliance.
Evidence by design
A reviewer should be able to reconstruct the run.
Receipts connect the approved workflow to execution, human judgement, exceptions and customer-defined outcomes.
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…c71fCapability status
Clear about what exists—and what comes next.
Ordinal is in its design-partner stage. This table describes the intended pilot scope and current build status; it is not a certification statement.
CapabilityStatusMeaning
Isolated company runtimePilot scope
Operational cases remain in the portfolio company boundary.
Maker-checker workflow releaseIn development
Named local approvers release each workflow version.
Agent tool and data allowlistsIn development
Explicit permissions constrain what the agent may access and do.
Evidence receiptsIn development
Structured run evidence connects approvals, actions and outcomes.
Role-based access controlPlanned
Granular permissions for sponsor, company and assurance roles.
Independent security certificationPlanned
No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification is currently claimed.
Security conversations
Need to examine the architecture?
Design partners receive a detailed data-flow, responsibility and control review before any operational pilot.