Work
What is being done, cataloged as data.
The Work stream is the record of what is actually being done across the institution: every task, every Runner run, every Workstream execution, captured as structured data rather than left in inboxes and someone's memory.
What it captures
Work is logged as it happens, without extra ceremony. When a Runner dispositions an alert, assembles a loan file, or drafts a SAR, that execution becomes a durable record: what ran, on which Workstream, against which Items, and every system it touched. The human half of the loop writes to the same stream, a reviewer's approval, a redirect, an override is Work too. There is no separate status report; the act of working is the record, so nothing depends on someone remembering to write it down later.
Why it matters
An operating system that only stores current state goes stale. The Work stream is the raw operating history the Compounding Loop learns from: the next pass starts from what the last one actually did, not from a blank session. It is also the spine of the Chronicle, the Company OS view across past (what ran), present (what is running), and future (what is scheduled).
In the exam
Because every hop already flows through the Grid, the Work stream doubles as the audit trail. Each entry carries actor, timestamp, the key used, and the gate decision, append-only and examiner-ready. The record your operators work from and the record your examiner reads are the same record.