What is an autonomy pilot?

The term is Orla's: there is no industry standard yet, which is why the numbers are spelled out. The idea is borrowed from how a new hire is trusted. Nobody gives a first week employee the company card on day one; they prepare, a senior checks, and after a month of good work the checks become spot checks.

Three things make a pilot a measurement rather than a feeling. It runs per kind of action, because paying a software bill and paying a new contractor are different risks. It counts what the person did with each proposal: pressed as it came, corrected, declined, or done by hand past it. And it ends on a rule written in advance, not on a mood.

A pilot that ends is not the end of watching. The same counting goes on after the software acts alone, and mistakes send the kind of action back to the button.

How this shows up in Orla

In Orla every kind of action starts at your press. Orla prepares it, you press, and it counts how often you changed nothing. After 30 days, 20 decisions and 95% pressed as they came, you read the report and decide; only the owner of the position lets it go. Two mistakes in thirty days send the kind back to your press and start a new pilot.

A pilot never loosens the brakes above it, and a new payee or changed bank details wait for a person at every step of the ladder. The rest is on the payment mandate.