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Agent architecture · Specification v3.11

50 governed agents. 10 families. One control boundary.

BidLayers is not one large model with a prompt. It is a catalogue of governed digital roles: coordinating, specialist, knowledge, independent review, control and platform agents. Each has one primary business purpose, a documented boundary, and no ability to approve its own output.

50
governed agents
10
agent families
6
operating classes
0
agents that self-approve
BidLayers agent architecture diagram: governed agent families spanning capture, tender intake, requirements, bid operations, discipline solution development, commercial and contract, review and approval, submission, knowledge and platform, connected to the central BidLayers AI Agent System.
The BidLayers AI Agent System, 50 governed agents across 10 families, orchestrated around a single control plane. View full size →
Agent operating classes

Authority is a property of the class, not a setting.

Coordinating agents

Plan work, route tasks, reconcile status and escalate dependencies.

Control · May coordinate but cannot self-approve specialist outputs.
Specialist agents

Perform bounded professional analysis and drafting.

Control · Qualified human review for domain commitments.
Knowledge agents

Retrieve, match and validate approved enterprise evidence.

Control · Access, freshness and approval filters are mandatory.
Independent review agents

Detect quality, evidence and editorial issues.

Control · Cannot change approved meaning without owner acceptance.
Control agents

Enforce approvals, security and audit requirements.

Control · Segregated from content authorship, immutable logging.
Platform agents

Operate configuration, integrations and analytics.

Control · Permissioned, recorded and subject to dual control.
The map

Select a family to see its agents, its outputs and where it hands off.

Family 01 · Coordinating

Executive & Capture

Ranks the pipeline, qualifies the opportunity and assembles the decision pack for the Pursuit gate. Advisory only: executives own the investment decision.

Primary outputs
  • Ranked pipeline and pursuit recommendation
  • Qualification scorecard, disqualifiers, evidence gaps
  • Capture plan, win themes, gate memorandum
Handoff · Hands the qualified opportunity and its conditions to Bid Operations.
Agents in this group
Portfolio Intelligence Agent
Prioritises the opportunity pipeline using strategic fit, value, risk and capacity.
Authority boundary · Advisory only; executive users own investment decisions.
Opportunity Qualification Agent
Assesses eligibility, capability fit, customer attractiveness and pursuit effort.
Authority boundary · Cannot commit resources or approve participation.
Capture Strategy Agent
Builds the capture plan, stakeholder map, competitive view and win strategy.
Authority boundary · Uses approved market and account evidence; assumptions are flagged.
Executive Gate Agent
Consolidates readiness, risk, price, compliance and approvals for gate decisions.
Authority boundary · Does not approve; records the accountable executive decision.
How they handoff

Every handoff is logged, every escalation is named.

01
Executive & Capture

Hands the qualified opportunity and its conditions to Bid Operations.

02
Bid Operations

Routes discipline work to Technical and Commercial, and gate items to Governance.

03
Tender Intelligence

Publishes obligations and evidence needs to every downstream family.

04
Proposal Content

Sends every draft to Review & Publishing with its evidence chain attached.

05
Knowledge

Supplies evidence to every drafting and evaluation agent.

06
Technical

Feeds Commercial for pricing and Assurance for HSE and quality mapping.

07
Assurance & Delivery

Returns execution constraints to Technical and cost drivers to Commercial.

08
Commercial

Escalates deviations and price posture to the Commercial gate.

09
Collaboration, Review & Publishing

Releases only what has passed authority checks; returns findings to content owners.

10
Governance & Platform

Serves every family; owns the durable event record.

Governance layer

Agents propose. People approve.

See the governance model
Every agent output carries an approval level
Every claim links back to an approved source
Every escalation is signed by a named person
Every submission is archived with full diff history
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