Receive
An AI system or automated workflow submits a structured proposal.
Experimental authority workspace
AI proposes.
Your organisation authorises.
Workbox provides a controlled boundary between actions proposed by AI systems and the organisational authority required to approve them.
Built from a functioning IDAS research prototype.
Proposal
Customer refund- Action
- create_refund
- Amount
- $79.95 AUD
- Order
- ORD-2026-11852
- Evidence
- 3 verified sources
Policy checks completed
Human authority is required before release.
A controlled path to action
Proposal is not authority.
Workbox keeps AI-generated recommendations separate from the policies, permissions and people that govern real actions.
Validate
The proposed action, parameters and evidence references are checked.
Authorise
Organisational policy determines whether human approval is required.
Release
Only an authorised action can move forward to controlled execution.
Functioning research prototype
Built beyond the interface.
Workbox grows from a working IDAS prototype that has completed an end-to-end customer refund workflow. It demonstrates how an AI-generated proposal can be separated from the authority to approve and release an action.
Evidence
Source records are collected, structured and validated.
Isolated model
Deliberation occurs without access to execution authority.
Proposal
A structured proposed action crosses the physical boundary.
Authority
Policy and human approval govern controlled release.
This is experimental research software, not a production service or a claim of complete system security.
Prototype demonstration
See the separation in operation.
This customer refund demonstration follows evidence collection, physical transfer to an isolated model, proposal generation, authority review and authorised execution.
Limited interactive demonstration
Inspect the authority boundary.
Open fictional proposals, inspect their evidence and policy results, and simulate an authority decision. No external action is performed.
Open Proposal Workbox
AI system
Proposes
Organisation
Authorises
Underlying architecture
Built around IDAS.
IDAS—Isolated Deliberation and Authority Separation—is an experimental architecture that separates model deliberation from organisational authority and controlled execution.
The current research prototype uses physical separation and structured transfer to demonstrate that the model can propose an action without possessing the authority to perform it.
Help shape the next stage
Where could an explicit authority boundary help?
Share a workflow, request a demonstration, offer feedback or register interest in the continuing Workbox and IDAS research.