Institutional memory
A question nobody left can answer, answered with a timeline and the source passage behind every statement.
- Agents
- 24
- on the default fleet
- Starts
- 9:00 AM
- Done by
- 11:10 AM
- 50 minutes to spare
- Elapsed
- 2 h 10 min
- from the ask to the last approval
The ask, as sent to Sol
Sol, why did we exit the Midwest distribution contract in 2021, who decided, and what did we commit to afterwards? I need it before lunch.
Before
Decisions lost when people leave.
- The people who made the decision have left
- The record is spread across minutes, contracts, email and chat
- The answer is whatever the longest-serving person remembers
With Solstice
Answers with a timeline and source passages. Where sources disagree, both stay visible.
2 hours 10 minutes. 24 agents. 2 approvers.
The morning
IllustrativeSimulated time. Each line is one step of the mission as it would run on the default fleet.
Sol
Sol restates the question as 3 questions and assigns 24 agents.
Records
Records agents search 11 years of board minutes, contracts, email archives and chat: 1.4 million documents.
Records
620 relevant documents found. A timeline of 47 dated events is drafted.
Finance
Finance and operations agents reconcile the timeline with the ledger and the service records.
Legal
Legal agents mark 38 privileged documents and 2 commitments still in force.
Review
Review agents find 4 points where sources disagree. Both versions stay in the answer.
Mission complete
COO and General Counsel approve. The clock stops 50 minutes before lunchtime.
Lunchtime
50 minutes to spare
The agent team
Illustrative24
24 agents on the default fleet, by function.
- Records6
- Legal5
- Finance4
- Operations4
- Review5
Named approvers
Every deliverable waits for a person with the authority to decide. Roles are illustrative.
- Chief Operating Officer
- Approves: The answer as the company's record
- General Counsel
- Approves: What is privileged and what may be shared
Deliverables
2 approvers, each with the authority to decide.
- A direct answer on one page
- A dated timeline of the decision
- The source passage behind every statement
- Every point where sources disagree, with both versions
- Commitments that are still in force
The same mission, two ways.
Illustrative- Traditional estimate
- 3 weeks of asking around, 6 people, no sources.
- Solstice
- 2 hours 10 minutes. 24 agents. 2 approvers.
Illustrative. Simulated time.