The operating model — 7 of 8
Governance Hub — judgement and authority
Where governance intelligence meets the board: the one part of the model that can't be automated, because judgement means living with the consequences.
Intelligence isn't authority
Governance Intelligence can hold the pattern steady, flag the contradiction, and show the board exactly what it's reasoning from. What it can't do is decide — carry the weight of a judgement call, or answer for it afterwards. That's the line this model draws deliberately: everything below the Governance Hub can sense, integrate, and surface; only the Hub can act with authority.
Where Mode 2 lives
This is where Mode 2 governance — the ethical, non-automatable register — actually happens: the board weighing cost against resident welfare, or deciding which of two competing commitments should win. Governance Intelligence can put both options in front of the board with full context; it cannot choose between them. The Governance Hub is where that choice gets made, and where the organisation answers for it.
Authority earned, not assumed
None of this works if the Hub is just where paperwork lands for signature. It only holds up if the board can show, with evidence, what it knew and how it knew it when a judgement was made — which is exactly what a working governance intelligence layer beneath it makes possible.