TAI reads the whole platform, answers from the books, searches live supply through the supplier APIs, and drafts the work that follows. That is a large surface, and the temptation with a large surface is to give it a large room of its own: a chat, a canvas, a set of widgets nobody else uses. That is the version that rots.
The thesis instead: TAI has no output of its own. It finds with the platform's result rows. It answers with citations that ARE those rows. It searches supply and returns the platform's own offer rows, the same ones the marketplace draws. It acts by drafting a real record you can open, read and refuse. Nothing TAI produces is a thing only TAI makes, which is what keeps it honest and what keeps it from ageing into a novelty.
And one rule governs everything it can do: TAI proposes, the platform commits.
Drawn fresh from the Untitled kit and the system’s ruled tokens, not restyled from the originals.
TAI does not issue, send, pay, cancel or sign. Those are the acts the gate and the dual signature exist to govern, and an assistant that could perform them would be a way around the platform's own safety rather than a use of it. Everything up to the moment of commitment is TAI's; the moment itself is a person's.
Trust in an assistant is built by its limits far more than its abilities, and the limits are the part a person cannot discover by trying. Stating them beside the capabilities is what lets someone use the powerful half without hesitating over it.
Where an honest answer would need a record the reader may not see, TAI does not answer from the narrower set. It says "Some records are outside your access, so this total would be incomplete", answers what it can in full, and names the count it could not read without naming the records. A confident wrong total is the worst thing this feature could produce.
A missing cancellation policy is the difference between a quotation that can be shared and one that cannot, and a model is perfectly capable of inventing a plausible one. Naming the gap keeps the person who is accountable in the loop at the only moment it matters. The same holds for a margin under the floor, an unnamed traveller, or a supplier whose terms are not captured: TAI states them and stops.
One: the scope as drawn, seven capabilities, with Prepare and Watch included or held back. Two: supply search opening the wide surface, against keeping everything at 640px and sending supply results to the marketplace instead. Three: whether Compose may draft a quotation directly, or only ever an enquiry, leaving quoting to a person.