OSIO’s architecture treats work as an organisational responsibility that may need several kinds of action and may continue over time. A useful way to describe its intended lifecycle is:
- Organisation — the business and its people define the context in which work belongs.
- Responsibility — the organisation’s Owner states an outcome that needs attention and the boundaries that apply.
- Work — the responsibility is represented so that it can be understood and carried forward.
- Execution — an executor may investigate, prepare or perform bounded work.
- Human judgement when required — a person is involved when a decision or approval falls outside the authority given.
- Governed external effect — a permitted action may change something outside OSIO through an applicable connection.
- Evidence — information is gathered about what actually happened.
- Result — the organisation records an appropriate conclusion when the responsibility has reached one.
This is a conceptual model, not a guaranteed linear pipeline or a claim that every step is already generally available. Real work may pause, encounter uncertainty, receive contrary evidence, require human judgement or resume after a dependency changes.
Responsibility, not just a prompt
The Owner gives OSIO responsibility for a desired outcome on behalf of the organisation, not merely a prompt to answer. A prompt can start a conversation; responsibility requires continuity: what is being handled, what is known, what is permitted, what remains unresolved and what would count as a supported conclusion.
The organisation, not the Owner or executor, owns the canonical Work and organisational record. The model or agent doing part of the work can change without making that executor the source of organisational truth.
Where people fit
OSIO is intended to work independently only within defined authority. When an important judgement or approval is genuinely needed, the work should return to the Owner or another appropriate person with enough context to make that decision. The aim is bounded independence, not constant approval prompts and not unrestricted autonomy.
For current public product availability, see What is OSIO?.