Firm and Enterprise Enforcement
for Thinking OS™
From single workflow to firm-wide authority control
The SEAL Legal Runtime diagram shows how Thinking OS™ governs a single “file / send / act” step.
This page explains how that same enforcement holds inside a live firm or enterprise — where roles change daily, tools evolve, and regulators expect proof that only authorized actions could run.
The Enforcement Principle: Action Governance at Scale
Thinking OS™ doesn’t try to control how models “think.”
It governs what they – and your people and automations – are allowed to do.
At firm scale, every high-risk step is evaluated against the same three questions:
- Who is acting?
(role, group, or system identity from your IdP / SSO) - On what?
(matter, practice/vertical, motion or action type) - Under whose authority?
(consent, licenses, and internal policy from your GRC / risk systems)
For any workflow wired to SEAL as the decision point:
- A governed action cannot complete without a SEAL decision.
- SEAL returns approve, refuse, or supervised override before the action executes.
- Every decision produces a sealed, tamper-evident artifact you own.
SEAL never drafts, files, or signs anything. It is a pre-execution authority gate, not a drafting tool.
How Thinking OS™ Connects to
Your Identity & Governance
Thinking OS™ does not keep its own org chart or policy database.
Instead, SEAL is wired to your existing control plane:
- Identity / SSO (IdP) – users, groups, roles, service accounts
- GRC / risk / licensing systems – policies, approvals, consent states
- Matter / case systems – matters, venues, verticals, deadlines
From those systems, SEAL receives only the claims and anchors it needs to decide whether a specific action is in-bounds right now.
When something changes:
- a lawyer moves teams
- a bar license lapses
- a matter’s risk posture is updated in GRC
…those changes flow through your own systems. The next governed request hitting SEAL is evaluated against the updated identity and policy — no manual re-wiring inside Thinking OS.
SEAL never invents roles or stores a “shadow org chart.”
What Firms and Enterprises Gain
When SEAL is wired to firm systems:
- One governance path for wired workflows
Every in-scope action passes through the same pipeline: intake → checks → decision → sealed record. - Fail-closed posture
Ambiguous identity, missing consent, or policy mismatches result in sealed refusals, not silent passes. - Immutable, auditable evidence
Artifacts are written to client-owned audit storage with append-only / WORM-style integrity guarantees, so you retain a durable trail of what was allowed or blocked. - Vendor-agnostic enforcement
Your teams can keep their existing drafting tools, AI assistants, and workflow vendors. SEAL sits in front of the “file / send / approve” edge and enforces your rules consistently.
The result: firms execute; the risk owner governs.
Enforcement Across
Humans, Agents, and Systems
SEAL’s authority model applies the same way to any executor behind a button or API:
If the request is in scope and in bounds, SEAL approves and the existing system runs as it does today.
If not, SEAL refuses or routes for supervision — and writes down who tried to do what, under which authority, and why it was blocked in a sealed artifact you control.
Final Principle
The tools, models, and interfaces can change.
The enforcement standard doesn’t.
Thinking OS™ gives firms and enterprises a stable, sealed judgment layer that:
- enforces who may do what, under what authority, before execution, and
- leaves behind evidence that can stand up to regulators, insurers, boards, and courts.