trust · how the dial works

Tune how Flo behaves.
The permissions don’t move.

Set tone, length and proactivity company-wide, then tune them by department and seniority band. These settings change how Flo works with your team — not what it can see or which actions require confirmation.

3 dials · tone, length, proactivity2 override scopes · department, seniority bandpermissions unchanged
01The three dialsinteractive example

Three settings. Same Flo.

Three settings, one question. Move any dial and watch the same situation change. These are the same three controls an admin sees in Fine-tune.

Tone

Length

verbosity

Proactivity

fixedWhatever these three say, Flo still runs as the person asking, and write actions still follow your confirmation rules.
02The boundarywhat the dial cannot do

Active doesn’t mean autonomous.

Proactivity changes what Flo notices and proposes. Access, approval and attribution stay fixed.

access

Unchanged at every setting

Proactivity on Active does not widen what Flo can see. Flo runs as the person asking and permissions are enforced in the database — if they can’t open a record, Flo can’t either.

approval

Drafts, not actions

On Active, Flo proposes and drafts supporting tasks, objectives and KPIs into the approval queue. They wait there to be accepted. Nothing is applied unprompted.

attribution

Still logged under a person

Write actions are recorded under whoever asked for them, at any dial setting. The dial changes the voice, never who is accountable for a change.

The dial governs what Flo says and what it offers. What Flo can reach is the capability system, and that is a separate control.
03Where it appliesthree layers · per axis

One company baseline. Tune where needed.

Overrides are sparse: a department or band changes only the axes you set, and inherits the rest.

layer 1

Company baseline

The three dials, plus your business context and guidance. Every organization has one, and it starts at balanced · standard · nudge.

layer 2

Seniority band

Executive, Lead, Senior, Mid and Junior, taken from the level on a person’s role.

layer 3

Department

Set on any department. It applies down the tree, and the department nearest the person wins.

worked example · a lead in the sales department
Each axis resolves on its own. The marks the setting that wins.
axis
company
lead band
sales dept
resolved
tone
balanced
direct
inherit
directfrom lead band
length
standard
inherit
inherit
standardfrom company
proactivity
nudge
inherit
active
activefrom sales dept
Different controls can come from different layers.

Tone can come from the Lead band while proactivity comes from Sales.

Most specific setting wins.

Department > band > company.

Guidance adds up.

Company, band and department guidance all carry through.

04Context & governanceyour company · your rules

Give Flo context. Control who can change it.

Tell Flo how your company works and the rules it should follow. Then control who can change those settings.

business context

What Flo should know about the company

Give Flo enough context to understand the business behind the work — what you do, who you serve and how the company operates.

We’re a 45-person B2B SaaS company serving independent retailers across the U.S. Sales owns new business; Customer Success owns retention and expansion.
up to 2,000 characters
guidance

The rules Flo should follow

Add standing instructions that shape Flo’s advice. Departments and seniority bands can add their own without replacing the company baseline.

Reference our quarterly OKRs when priorities compete.Keep recommendations practical for a distributed U.S. team.Surface the owner and next decision before suggesting more work.
one per line · up to 2,000 characters
governance

Only authorized people can change the rules.

Only people with the right company-settings permission can view or change Fine-tune. That permission is enforced in both the application and the underlying data layer.

Fine-tune settings
admin.org_settings
application database
Trust & control

Tune the behavior. Keep the authority.

Tone, length and proactivity can change. Permissions, approval rules and attribution don’t. The dial changes how Flo works with you — not what Flo is authorized to do.