Questions
Questionswe expect first.
What CTOs, founders and operations leaders ask us first, with the answers we give.
- Is this another AI agent platform?
- No. There are plenty of ways to build an agent. ClrSlate is the layer above them: it says which seat an agent works in, whom it answers to, what it may decide and when it must ask a human. The agents themselves can be the ones you already run.
- Our coding-agent platform already has roles, approvals and audit logs. What does ClrSlate add?
- Those controls govern one vendor’s agent inside the pull request: who may run it, what it may touch, and a log of what it did. ClrSlate answers the question they leave open: who in your organization owns what the agent does, who decides when it is above a limit, and where the decision is on the record. It does that for every agent you run, from whichever vendors you chose, under one chain of command, and across the work that happens outside the repository: strategy, roadmap, releases, incidents, customer escalations, audits. Keep the platform; give its agent a seat.
- Who is accountable when an agent does something?
- The human who owns the seat. Every seat pairs a human and an agent; the agent works, the human answers. Anything an agent cannot decide goes up the chain of command, through the same escalation matrix your organization already uses. Every decision is on the record.
- How much may an agent decide on its own?
- As much as you set, per job and per function: from asking every time to deciding within the limits you write down, with anything above going up your escalation matrix. A regulated finance function and a product team can run differently in the same company. Each organization has its own risk appetite, controls and maturity; ClrSlate adopts yours instead of forcing one way of working.
- Does it replace our tools?
- No. ClrSlate coordinates above and across the delivery tools and coding agents you already run. Nothing to rip out.
Words we use
- Seat
- A role a person and an agent hold together.
- Decision rights
- Approval limits, and who is above them.
- Escalation matrix
- Who decides above each limit, seat by seat.
- Record
- An audit trail you can ask.
- Approved template
- A golden path: the way a team builds and ships, already approved.
- Practice
- The team that owns a standard.
Start with howyou run today.
Bring one piece of work that breaks at the handoffs: a pull request waiting on three reviewers, an initiative spread across twelve tools, a release nobody owns. We model the seats it crosses, give one of them an agent, and follow one decision to its record.