Every check is written down.
Who asked, for what, under which contract, and the answer. Terminalia keeps this record today.
So farEmily and Notey had worked under their contracts for weeks. Terminalia checked every request. Nobody was reading the record.
Terminalia answers one request at a time. Saturnalia is the analytics engine being built to read the whole record Terminalia keeps and look for patterns. When it finds one, it asks a person to rule.
The story is fiction, for fun. What exists today is listed under “Where Saturnalia stands”.
Terminalia refused both. Sending email is not in Notey’s contract.
The record Saturnalia reads: Terminalia’s checks, including Notey’s two refused sends.
The alert, and Samantha’s ruling on it. There is no public Saturnalia demo yet.
Saturnalia itself.
Who asked, for what, under which contract, and the answer. Terminalia keeps this record today.
So farEach time Notey asks to send email, Terminalia says no, correctly. Saturnalia notices that Notey keeps asking.
In the storyShould Notey’s contract change, or should Notey stop asking? Saturnalia can’t change a contract. Only Samantha can.
In the storyTerminalia stops what is outside the contract. Saturnalia looks across weeks of decisions for what one check can’t show: an agent that keeps reaching past its contract, or a contract that no longer fits the job.
Until then, the record is there to read, and Samantha reads it herself.
Ask about Saturnalia, or start with the contracts it reads.