Machine Heartbeat
The AI half of the sensing layer’s continuous stream. Each Stratafy Expert watches its assigned strategies, world model domains, and entity types without pause, and fires a structured observation into the sensing layer when a sensor trips. The Machine Heartbeat is the single largest source of volume in the sensing layer and the most dependent on guardrails — trigger thresholds, confidence minima, max proposals per scan, explicit exclusions. Without those guardrails it drowns the organisation; with them it is the continuous early-warning system no purely human team could sustain. (Strategy as Infrastructure, Chs 15, 16)
Why it matters
The Machine Heartbeat is what makes continuous sensing possible without continuous human attention. Each AI expert’s heartbeat is shaped by its scan configuration — cadence, scope, trigger thresholds, max proposals per run. The volume guardrails are essential: an expert that fires on every signal produces noise; one that fires only on threshold-crossing signals produces intelligence. The quality of the Machine Heartbeat is directly proportional to the quality of the Expert Definition Framework that governs it.
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