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Structural AI Workflow Evidence Model

Durable integration requires more than an interface around a model. The system must connect an authorized task to source data, identity, access, state, business rules, re

Aug 4, 20262 min readBy Dalton Anderson

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Structural AI Workflow Evidence Model

Workflow layers

Durable integration requires more than an interface around a model. The system must connect an authorized task to source data, identity, access, state, business rules, review, action authority, evidence, monitoring, failure handling, and change control.

Layer	Evidence question
Task	What decision or work unit is owned?
Data	Which sources are authoritative, permitted, current, and traceable?
Identity	Who or what is acting, for whom, and with which access?
State	Where does durable workflow state live?
Rules	Which deterministic constraints and policies apply?
Review	What must a qualified person inspect before action?
Authority	Which action can the system recommend, draft, stage, or execute?
Evidence	What inputs, outputs, versions, approvals, and changes are preserved?
Failure	How are uncertainty, disagreement, outage, misuse, and rollback handled?
Change	Who owns monitoring, evaluation, update, and retirement?

Wrapper boundary

A thin interface can be appropriate for exploration or a disposable low-risk task. The problem begins when the interface is presented as integration while the user manually performs all data retrieval, validation, state management, review, and recovery.

The presence of an AI model does not determine workflow depth. A structural workflow may use a model for one bounded extraction step and deterministic systems for validation and commitment.

Evidence sources

NIST's Generative AI Profile organizes risks and actions across the lifecycle. NAIC's current insurance AI work emphasizes governance, risk mitigation, data, documentation, and examination.

These sources do not supply one architecture. The actual design depends on the use case, law, organization, system, data, and failure consequence.

Public boundary

Do not claim that wrappers always fail, that custom software is always superior, or that an AI workflow is production-ready because it can write to a database.

Sources

Follow the evidence.

Holland and Kavuri, HICSS-56aisel.aisnet.org
Google: Our next-generation model, Gemini 1.5blog.google
Liu et al.: Lost in the Middleaclanthology.org
OpenAI: Video generation models as world simulatorsopenai.com
Google AI for Developers: Long contextai.google.dev
NAIC: Artificial Intelligencecontent.naic.org
Spotify episode recordpodcasters.spotify.com
OpenAI: Sora is hereopenai.com
NAIC: Model Bulletin on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurerscontent.naic.org
NIST: Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework, Generative Artificial Intelligence Profilenist.gov