The Business Requirements
For the infrastructure policy chapter, the deliverables are:
business rules
machine classification rules
readiness rules
scan / agent posture rules
exception rules
test scenarios
test box requirements
acceptance criteria
demo validation checklist
risk and gap summary
This answers:
What decisions must the system make, and how do we know they are correct?
intake evidence → classify the box → apply policy rules → produce readiness / scan / agent posture → flag exceptions → generate a report.
What is this?
Do we know enough?
Who owns it?
Where does it live?
Can we scan it?
Can we install an agent?
What is the risk?
What exception is needed?
What should happen next?
Business Objectives using Get Smart Framework
This framework supports:
Get Smart does not ask whether every machine can run an agent. It asks whether this machine, for this role, under this policy, should be assessed, trusted, remediated, protected, or excluded.
The core idea:
Agent eligibility is not universal. It is determined by machine type, role, ownership, risk, and permitted remediation path.
Agent eligibility is policy-defined
AACM Compliance Policy
The readiness request should not just ask, “Can this machine join?”
It should ask:
Can this machine join under the current policy for the role it is requesting?
And for your side-thread with the Merry Men and BB, you can absolutely call that:
AACM Compliance Policy
That does two useful things:
Can I see some ID please?
And the machine must present an identity that says:
“I am this approved system, for this role, under this owner, with this current readiness status.”
Get Smart Machine Readiness is the big-market wedge.
Not “come admire my special server.”
Not “every laptop is a beloved snowflake named Harold.”
This is cattle, not pets:
Systems are assessed by policy, evidence, status, and repeatable workflow.
No individual machine gets mythology. It gets classified.
Public-ready by Friday, July 31, 2026.
SappyFest weekend becomes the “walk away and let it breathe” deadline, not the night-before panic goblin. (Sappyfest)
By July 31, Get Smart should be presentable as:
A practical method for turning messy content, unclear processes, and half-formed automation ideas into structured, traceable, testable workflows.
Make messy systems usable.
I help small teams turn scattered content, unclear processes, and half-formed technical ideas into structured, testable, maintainable workflows.
I help you get from:
TDD will start with the Business Rules. The "product" that demos without a Guide Book, will not be trusted.
The actual test values are TBD but the test can accept the values on a Rule Sheet.
business problem
client risk
regulatory/compliance need
operational pain
acceptable action boundaries
audit/reporting requirements
human approval modelThe DEV can answer: