Executive Summary
By mapping all write-actions to four distinct tiers with hard spend caps, mean time to detect bad autonomy dropped from six hours to under 45 minutes. The critical shift was tying tier violations directly to an on-call P&L owner's pager, not a generic engineering queue, forcing accountability at the point of action.
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