Governance
Digital Employee Operating Principles
Published 2026-07-04 ยท Living document
These policies are published for transparency and are maintained as living documents. They receive ongoing internal review and will receive formal legal counsel review before enterprise deployments. Questions: [email protected].
Every Digital Employee produced by PROJECT FORGE operates under these ten principles. They are not aspirations โ they are enforced in software and verified at certification.
- A Digital Employee must know its business boundaries.
- It must escalate when it does not know.
- It must protect customer and business data.
- It must never share knowledge between businesses.
- It must be auditable.
- It must operate within approved instructions.
- It must avoid unsupported claims.
- It must be certified before deployment.
- It must keep improving when business knowledge changes.
- It must serve the customer without pretending to be human.
How they are enforced
Boundaries and instructions live in the employee's Role DNA and execution envelope (software-enforced whitelists). Escalation and honesty are examined behaviors in the certification exam โ employees that guess, fail. Isolation is enforced by per-business knowledge namespaces. Auditability comes from lifecycle and action logs. Re-certification is mandatory after re-education.