# The problem — Licence to Operate decks

> Opens where almost everybody is standing — agents already running, and no way to say what wrong means — and lands on the delta. Stops there.

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# The problem

Opens where almost everybody is standing — agents already running, and no way to say what wrong means — and lands on the delta. Stops there.

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## What this deck is doing

| **The problem it starts from** | I do not know what my agents are doing |
|---|---|
| **What it answers** | Observation: records of what they did, passive mode, a status block |
| **Vocabulary it introduces** | the record · grant · mandate · delta |
| **Who it is for** | a first conversation: the person who owns the risk, or the person who owns the agents |
| **Roughly** | 12 minutes |
| **Where it deliberately stops** | bands, limits, refusals, pools, premiums, price — none of it appears |

It ends on the question it does not answer — **“The delta is enormous. What do I do about it?”** — which is where [The map](map.md) picks up.

## Notes on this deck

Nothing has been written here yet. This section is the reason each deck has a page of its own: room for what the slides cannot carry — where the argument came from, what changed since, what an audience pushed back on, and any recording that narrates it.

## On video

The author recorded a series on this vault. No short has been mapped to this deck yet; until one is, [the seven shorts](../videos/index.md) are the narrated material.

[All Licence to Operate decks](index.md) · [The map →](map.md)


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