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  "version": "1.0",
  "updated": "2026-08-01",
  "subject": {
    "name": "Michael Carroll",
    "role": "Founder, One Degree",
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      "claim": "Causal AI work at Georgia-Pacific produced a 10x improvement in touchless order processing, with errors that once took days resolved in seconds.",
      "source": "Forbes, Steve Banker, 15 April 2024",
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      "status": "stated by One Degree; corroborated in part by the Forbes piece above, which covers the Georgia-Pacific Causal AI work.",
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    },
    {
      "claim": "Pioneered Causal AI and Special Purpose Intelligence in industrial operations.",
      "status": "stated by One Degree.",
      "public_citation": null
    },
    {
      "claim": "IDC named the work a new market category, Deep Automation.",
      "status": "stated by One Degree; no IDC document is linked from this site.",
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    },
    {
      "claim": "Fellow and Strategic Advisor to The COO Council at LNS Research.",
      "status": "stated by One Degree.",
      "public_citation": null
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      "claim": "ASPI Innovator of the Year, 2019.",
      "status": "stated by One Degree.",
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    },
    {
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      "status": "stated by One Degree.",
      "public_citation": null
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    "The organizations named on this site are not represented as clients of One Degree. Each is attributed on the site by its actual relationship: former operating role, research affiliation, category recognition, award, or speaking venue.",
    "No client list is published. No customer testimonials beyond the Forbes coverage are published.",
    "No enrollment counts, participant counts, or training-delivery statistics are published."
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      "name": "Decision architecture",
      "summary": "Signal, interpretation, reasoning, authority, action, stabilization, learning."
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    {
      "name": "The permission ladder",
      "summary": "Observe, retrieve, interpret, recommend, prepare, approve, act in a bounded envelope, stop, escalate, never."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bill Comes Due value pools",
      "summary": "Three leakage streams (detection, decision, execution) across nine value pools, used in the public leakage estimator."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Eight Board Questions",
      "summary": "A board-level instrument for examining AI, authority, and operating-model change."
    },
    {
      "name": "Decision Velocity Canvas",
      "summary": "Working artifact produced in the enterprise masterclass."
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    {
      "name": "Decision-Embedded Offering Canvas",
      "summary": "Working artifact produced in the provider masterclass."
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