One mind, across the whole institution.
MAIA is a single intelligence across an institution. It holds what the company knows, applies what the company has decided, and acts within the authority it has been given. People, models and deterministic software are parts of it, not users of it.
Every institution already reasons.
It gathers what it knows, weighs it against what it has decided, acts, and records. A company does this constantly.
It does it at the speed of meetings. It does it in fragments — in different rooms, on different evidence, by people who cannot see each other working.
And it forgets. The reason a thing was done leaves with the person who did it.
Nothing in the company holds the whole of it at once.
MAIA holds the whole of it at once.
One intelligence, across every function, continuously. A hive mind: people, models and software acting as one mind rather than as parties to one another.
The company does not consult it. The company is it.
Institution-sized.
Superintelligence here does not mean cleverer than a person at a task. It means holding more of an institution in mind at once than the institution can hold of itself.
Many flows at the same time, coherently: the ledger while the contract while the production plan while the regulation that governs all three.
Coherently is the difficult word. Most systems can work in parallel. Very few can hold parallel work to one set of commitments.
Superior technology.
MAIA is a neurosymbolic AI system, and its context is institution-sized: ten terabytes of the company's own material, held at once and under one set of rules.
Reading what a company produces and applying what a company has decided are different problems. They are usually solved by different systems — one that interprets, one that enforces, and people carrying the meaning between them.
MAIA does both at once, over all of it. That is what lets it act instead of advise, and stop instead of guess.
Autonomy, inside a boundary the company draws.
Within the procedures the company has set, MAIA does not propose. It does.
Outside them it does not proceed.
MAIA Brain
The work can move. The accountability cannot.
What a company decides, who is permitted to decide it, and what it means for that to run continuously.