Codify strategy, roles, workflows, controls and proof
Automated Governance Systems (AGS) uses codification to make operations runnable, reviewable, and improvable. This guide walks through the AGS Codification Framework, the ITIL and COBIT foundations behind it, an Operational Processes Framework (OPF), and an Automated Process Intelligence Platform (APIP) — with step-by-step instructions you can apply to any function or service.
Codification turns tacit know-how into a runnable operating system: every process has a named owner, a machine-readable workflow, controls that produce evidence, and KPIs that prove it works. AGS applies this so leaders can govern with data rather than anecdote.
Six-step method
Interactive checklist
Track your progress and capture evidence per step. Saved locally in this browser.
Core artefacts
Strategy card
One page linking the process to a business outcome, a customer promise, and 2–4 KPIs.
Control matrix
Risks, controls, evidence, control owner, and testing cadence — mapped to the frameworks you must comply with.
Runnable workflow
The end-to-end steps with forms, assignees, SLAs, and machine-readable triggers.
Proof pack
Audit-ready log of who did what, when, with which evidence — automatically generated by the platform.
Downloadable templates
- Strategy cardMarkdown
One-page outcome, KPIs, roles, controls and framework mapping.
- OPF process registerCSV
Catalogue every process with owner, workflow, systems and SLAs.
- Controls matrixCSV
Risks, controls, evidence, testing cadence and framework mapping.
- Roles & RACI matrixCSV
Decision rights across sponsor, owner, operator, control and audit.
- KPI registerCSV
KPI definitions, formulas, targets, RAG thresholds and owners.
Bringing it together
Use COBIT to choose what to govern, ITIL to structure how services deliver value, an OPF to make execution runnable across the business, and an APIP to keep it honest with live data. AGS Codification is the connective tissue: one shared model of strategy, ownership, workflows, controls, and proof — ready for ALFI and EDIE to reason over, automate, and improve.