Business Rules & Test Readiness
The Business Requirements
For the infrastructure policy chapter, the deliverables are:
intake evidence → classify the box → apply policy rules → produce readiness / scan / agent posture → flag exceptions → generate a report.
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Business Objectives using Get Smart Framework
This framework supports:
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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:
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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?
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Can I see some ID please?
And the machine must present an identity that says:
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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:
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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)
Phase One goal
By July 31, Get Smart should be presentable as:
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Make messy systems usable.
I help small teams turn scattered content, unclear processes, and half-formed technical ideas into structured, testable, maintainable workflows.
What I do
I help you get from:
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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.
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