01 · Chatbot
Answers.
Responds inside a conversation.
A GOVERNED DIGITAL WORKFORCE
You have a workforceyou never hired.
It needs somewhere to belong.
The headquarters forTheheadquarters foryour Digital Employees.
Every hire comes with a role, a manager,permissions, and a record.
AI is already inside your company.The only question left: who controls it?
Hire a person and the basics come with them. You know who they are, who they answer to, what they may touch, and what they did. Almost no AI running in companies today gives you any of that.
Accountability
Who owns the work AI does?
Every employee has a manager. Most AI working inside companies today has no named human owner.
Visibility
What is actually running?
Companies know who works for them. Most cannot list the AI agents running right now, let alone what they achieve.
Governance
What are the rules?
Every employee works within roles, permissions and policies. Most AI operates with none of the three.
Scalability
Does it grow safely?
In 2025 the average Fortune 500 company ran fewer than fifteen agents. Gartner expects over 150,000 by 2028.
40%
of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents by 2027, due to governance gaps.
Gartner · May 2026
Up to 7% of global annual turnover, for prohibited AI practices under Article 5.
EU AI Act · Article 99
Only 1 in 4 organizations have moved two fifths or more of their AI pilots into production.
Deloitte · State of AI in the Enterprise · 2026
16× more agents are deployed by organizations that build control into their AI, compared with those that govern it manually.
IBM Institute for Business Value · 2026
The Shokuin difference
The market offers loose agents you must coordinate.Shokuin offers a complete organization, governed as one.
AI can answer. It can act.A Digital Employee belongs.
The first two are capabilities. The third is a position in your company.
02 · Agent
Acts.
Uses tools to execute a task.
03 · Digital Employee
- Role
- Defined · Version-pinned
- Manager
- Named human owner
- Permissions
- Bounded autonomy
- Record
- Append-only · Replayable
Shokuin Workforce
Risk Analyst
Digital Employee · v4.2
Squad · Enterprise Risk
Approved for work
Example governed role
- Role
- Defined · Version-pinned
- Manager
- Named human owner
- Permissions
- Bounded autonomy
- Record
- Append-only · Replayable
Shokuin Workforce
Risk Analyst
Digital Employee · v4.2
Squad · Enterprise Risk
Approved for work
Example governed role
Belongs.
Does the work under your rules, and answers for it.
You don't hire a bot, you hire a piece of headcount.
Your organization stays.
Your workforce extends.
A Digital Employee works inside the structures you already use to manage people.
Your organization
Shokuin
01Structure
Where work belongs
Your organization
Business function
Shokuin
Workforce
Shared capacityYour organization
Team
Shokuin
Squad
One missionYour organization
Business processes & procedures
Shokuin
Workflows
Repeatable execution02Accountability
Who performs the work and who owns the outcome
Your organization
Employee
Shokuin
Digital EmployeeShokuin workforceYour organization
Line manager
Shokuin
Human manager
03Operating control
How work is defined, constrained and recorded
Your organization
Job description
Shokuin
Role
Defined · version-pinnedYour organization
Enterprise policy
Shokuin
Policy controls
Enforced · no driftYour organization
System access
Shokuin
Permissions
Bounded autonomyYour organization
Work history
Shokuin
Operational record
Reconstructable · replayableA digital employee is useful.A team is transformational.
A Squad is a governed team of Digital Employees with one mission, defined roles, and a named human manager.
The Core
How Digital Employees work together
Select a pattern to trace the route work takes.
Human-in-the-Loop: Digital Employees do the groundwork; a named human approves the release.
Built around the enterprise systems you already run.
Channels, systems of record, approved knowledge and control infrastructure, connected to each Digital Employee’s role.
Connect
Channels
Work enters through the channels your teams and customers already use.
ReceiveRouteRespondEscalate
Take Action
Tools
Digital Employees act across the systems where enterprise work is recorded.
SAPApproval required
Purchase orderAwaiting a named approver
SalesforceRead
Customer accountEnterprise account record
ServiceNowUpdate
Incident recordPriority and status updated
WorkdayRequest
Worker requestRouted through approval
Learn
Knowledge Bases
Every decision is grounded in approved enterprise knowledge.
Policies
SharePoint
Procedures
Confluence
Controlled archives
Amazon S3
Operational evidence
Azure Blob Storage
Working documents
Google Drive
SharePoint · Policies
Approved source
Legal and the accountable business owner must approve the exception
“Extracted from Contract Approval Policy
Connect
Integrations
Shokuin connects through the identity, integration and API layers already governed by the enterprise.
Microsoft Entra ID
Okta
MuleSoft
BoomiREST API
Identity
Delegated access
Integration layer
API gateway
Audit context
Enterprise deployment
Deploy a workforce.Not another agent.
Select a governed workforce, preserve its controls and deploy it wherever the enterprise requires.
MarketplaceGovernanceDeployment
01 · Marketplace
Select a governed workforce.
Start with a versioned role or a complete workforce built for an enterprise mission.
Defined · Owned · Version-pinnedConsistent qualityMany units · Same resultsUpdate once · Cascades everywhere
Risk Analyst
Enterprise Risk
Human ownerAudit-ready
v4.2 · governed role
Compliance Officer
Regulatory Compliance
Policy-boundRecorded
v3.1 · governed role
Claims Specialist
Claims Operations
Human gateVersioned
v2.8 · governed role
Procurement Analyst
Procurement
Bounded accessTraceable
v1.6 · governed role
02 · Governance
Governance is wired into the control plane.
A continuous operating lifecycle controls what the workforce is, what it can do and how every action is reviewed.
Select a stage
Every Digital Employee and model is inventoried before deployment.
03 · Governed Deployment
The same workforce, wherever your walls are.
Human control and an accountable record travel with the workforce into every environment.
Work is prepared with sources and policy context.
A named person reviews, edits or approves.
Single · Four-eyes · Quorum
Consequential work proceeds only after the required decision.
The decision remains append-only and replayable.
Known agentic AI risks. Mitigated by design.
Security is enforced by the platform across every Digital Employee. Actions remain controlled and auditable end to end.
Inputs are screened and policy-checked before instructions reach the workforce.
Role-scoped tools, hard limits and human approval constrain consequential actions.
HUMAN GATE
No consequential action proceeds solely on AI judgment when policy requires human approval.
Role-controlled access, tenant separation and output controls protect enterprise knowledge.
Every action has a durable identity, a named human owner and controlled revocation.
NAMED HUMAN OWNER
Version pinning, continuous monitoring and incident response keep behaviour visible.
Actions and approvals remain append-only, tamper-evident and replayable.
PLATFORM GUARANTEES
IDENTITY
Entra / Okta federation
Short-lived credentials · controlled revocation
RUNTIME
Deny by default
Isolated execution · bounded resources · recoverable operations
EVIDENCE
Workforce as Code
Version-controlled · append-only · tamper-evident
DESIGNED AROUND · NIST AI RMF · OWASP NHI & AGENTIC TOP 10 · EU AI ACT
Questions enterprises ask before AI goes to work
An agent can reason and act. A Digital Employee adds a verified identity, a defined role, a human owner, bounded permissions and a complete record of its work.
No. Shokuin integrates with your identity and cloud infrastructure, then adds the workforce layer above it.
They operate in Squads: distinct roles executing one governed process, with controlled routing, handoffs, approvals and escalation.
Access is denied by default and bounded by role and policy. Sensitive actions pause for a named human approver.
Managed SaaS, dedicated environments, your cloud, on-premises or air-gapped—with one governance model across them.
Yes. Every step, decision, approval and outcome is written to a tamper-evident operational record.
Every workforce is about to get bigger.
Give yours a headquarters.
