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Every Tuesday, a short field note on what was approved, who owns the decision, and what evidence survives after deployment.
May 12, 2026
The machine rejected Derek Mobley at 1:50 in the morning, before any recruiter arrived the next day. Four years later, a federal court letter told him a machine may have scored his application before anyone saw his name. The organization that deployed the scoring tool had a vendor contract. No named person inside it had ever written down what the system was permitted to decide.
Read issue 9 →May 5, 2026
Six months is long enough to complete a compliance cycle, onboard a new hire, and close two budget reviews. The model ran through all of it. Nobody asked what it was optimizing for until the answer stopped being convenient.
Read issue 8 →April 28, 2026
Agent 365 shipped with everything that tells you what your agents did. It did not ship with anything that tells you who decided they should. Edition 7 of The Governance Gap is about the thirty days of drift between those two things and the two-page document that closes the gap.
Read issue 7 →