This paper develops a staged architectural protocol for the gradual integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into governance and decision-making loops. Rather than framing AI integration as a binary question of delegation, the model introduces an intermediate architectural mediation layer through which AI first participates as an observer and architectural advisor before any controlled expansion of execution roles. Architectural Readiness is conceptualised as a structural property of the combined “AI plus governance” system: the capacity to process AI-generated architectural proposals through institutionalised adjudication and to stabilise decision-loop adaptations under acceptable institutional risk. The framework proposes six phases of integration — observational embedding, architectural advisory, institutionalised adjudication, structural validation, controlled node participation, and dynamic structural optimisation — and introduces structural markers for assessing readiness at the level of decision-loop architecture. The model is conceptual and cross-sectoral. It is intended as an architectural template for analysing and designing structured AI participation in organisational governance systems.
Dmitrii Krivosheev (Wed,) studied this question.