Boardroom Answers · Strategic Command · Risk Management & Governance
If I build my operating rhythm around this and it goes down the morning of my board meeting, what happens? What is your actual uptime commitment?
The question a President / Chief Operating Officer (COO) asks.
The short answer
Dual AI providers, queued retries, offline exports — designed so a bad morning degrades gracefully. But I won’t quote an uptime number until our disaster-recovery drill has produced evidence; that drill is on the pre-GA roadmap.
The full executive answer
Direct answer first: I will not quote you an uptime number, because we have no operating history that makes one honest. What I can show you is the resilience architecture and the honest state of its evidence. The AI layer is dual-provider — Anthropic primary, OpenAI secondary — so a model-provider outage degrades to the fallback engine rather than to silence. The application runs on Vercel’s multi-region edge with the database on managed Postgres with point-in-time recovery. We run a real incident-management module and a public status page — the same discipline we sell is the discipline we run — and generation requests queue through an asynchronous job system with idempotency keys, meaning a transient failure retries safely instead of losing or duplicating your work.
Now the gap, stated plainly because you will find it anyway: we measure and meet internal AI-latency service-level objectives today, but we have not yet run the full disaster-recovery drill — point-in-time restore plus second-region recovery — that would let me put availability and recovery-time numbers into a contract with evidence behind them. That drill is on the pre-general-availability roadmap, and enterprise agreements will carry an evidenced SLA once it has been executed, in line with ISO 22301, the business-continuity management standard. Until then I would rather you hear "designed for resilience, evidence pending" than a marketing nine.
For your board-morning scenario specifically, the practical mitigation is architectural: analyses are generated ahead of the meeting, not live in it, and every output exports to PowerPoint, Excel and PDF — plus the app itself works offline as a progressive web app. A platform outage on the day would be an inconvenience to regeneration, not a hole in your board pack.
Grounded in: ISO 22301 (business continuity) · SOC 2 TSC Availability criterion (roadmap)
The natural next questions
Related governed answers
- Let me be blunt. If this board approves a major decision based on your AI’s analysis, the analysis turns out to be hallucinated, and the company takes a nine-figure loss — who is liable, what happens to my name, and why did your product not prevent it?
- Board records must survive longer than most software companies do. If you fail, are acquired and sunset, or we simply leave — what happens to our decision records, and how do I know the history remains trustworthy?
- As a director I see risk through a heat map twice a year, and I know it is theatre. What does board-level risk reporting look like out of your platform, and how is it less theatrical?
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