The computable enterprise: capturing business logic that lives in employees' heads

vishalmisra · x · 2026-11-06

Vishal Misra amplifies Anand Rajaraman and Harish Devarajan's Folding Space essay "Cognitive Sovereignty and the Computable Enterprise". Key points:

Most enterprise AI treats a company as a pile of documents; the missing layer is a company-owned computable model of evidence, decisions, permissions and process.
Illustrative case: a broker-dealer settlement analyst diagnosing the 2% of failed trades juggles order systems, clearing portals, custodian sites, emails and spreadsheets — the real business logic lives in her head and in the seams between apps, never fully written down.
Companies run on hundreds of such people-mediated routines; a companion whitepaper argues that sufficiently long activity traces let a system learn this implicit logic and automate the repetitive digital work.
Thesis: LLMs will come and go, but a company's operational memory should not.

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