AUTHORITY GAP

Find where AI capability has outrun authority.

An Authority Gap exists when an AI system can take an action but the enterprise cannot show that the action is supported by a current, explicit human or organizational mandate.

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THE DISTINCTION

Identity and permissions establish capability—not enterprise authority.

Identity establishes who or what is present. Permissions establish what that actor can technically access or execute. Neither, by itself, establishes whether this action, for this purpose, within these limits, was actually authorized by the responsible person or enterprise.

An Authority Gap Assessment examines that missing control layer. It is a guided public inquiry and review—not a claim that a production SaaS scanner is publicly available.

START WITH AUTHORITY

An Authority Gap only makes sense after authority is defined.

Enterprise authority is the legitimate, bounded, and accountable right to commit the enterprise to an action or outcome. It runs from organizational intent through mandate, delegation, context, and the exact effect an actor is about to cause.

Authrizd makes that chain explicit enough to evaluate at machine speed.

What Is Enterprise Authority? →

COMMON GAPS

Where authority breaks down.

Unclear authority source

No reliable source shows who empowered the action or under what mandate.

Missing accountable sponsor

No responsible human or enterprise principal can be tied to the AI activity.

Stale authority

The evidence supporting an earlier decision is expired, changed, or no longer current.

Inherited authority

A later actor or session assumes authority merely because an earlier one had access or context.

Delegation ambiguity

A handoff does not preserve clear scope, limits, or responsibility.

Permission-to-authority mismatch

Technical access permits an action that the enterprise mandate does not support.

Cross-session authority drift

Context persists across sessions while the original authority silently changes or disappears.

Persistent-influence risk

Stored instructions or machine-generated artifacts influence later actions without granting authority.

Approval fatigue

Routine and exceptional actions are treated alike, overwhelming human reviewers.

Unprovable action lineage

The enterprise cannot reconstruct the people, agents, tools, decisions, and evidence behind an outcome.

Coverage blind spots

Unobserved systems or missing evidence are mistaken for complete authority coverage.

Start with the workflows where AI can create the greatest enterprise consequence.

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