Delegation Boundaries

Three zones — full AI autonomy, supervised autonomy, and founder-only decisions.

Zone 1: Full Autonomy

AI handles these without approval:

Draft inquiry response emails
Research prospects before discovery calls
Generate first-draft proposals from client briefs
Draft social content in Auria's voice
Organize incoming files
Monitor competitor activity

These are tasks where the cost of a minor error is low and the time savings are high. The system has enough intelligence to handle them independently.

Zone 2: Supervised Autonomy

AI drafts, founders review:

Task	AI Does	Founders Do
Client proposals	Draft from brief and discovery notes	Personalize and send
Genius Reports	Generate from extracted data	Review for accuracy
Content pieces	Write first drafts	Approve before publishing
Client communications	Draft messages	Review and send
Module 2 agent definitions	Propose architecture	Validate design decisions

These are tasks where quality matters enough that human judgment adds meaningful value, but AI handles the heavy lifting of creation.

Zone 3: Founder-Only

AI never touches these:

Discovery calls — human connection, intuition, rapport
Pricing decisions for bespoke builds — context-dependent judgment
Client relationship management — trust is personal
Strategic decisions about direction, products, partnerships
Anything involving money, contracts, commitments — legal and financial accountability
Co-founder dynamic decisions — partnership governance

These are decisions where the stakes are too high, the context too nuanced, or the human element too critical for AI involvement.

The Principle

The boundary is not about what AI can do. It is about what AI should do. A system that handles everything is not intelligent — it is reckless. A system that knows its boundaries is the one you can trust.

Sources

business-operations-map.md — delegation zone definitions, task categorization, autonomy criteria