Trust here isn't a setting you flip on. Every teammate has one dial, and you hold it. The system has to prove itself, measurably, before you give it more rope — and you can read its record any time. The calls that shape the business come to you no matter what.
Every recommendation the system makes is logged and then checked against what actually happened — what was recommended, what you decided, how it turned out, and whether reality moved the way the recommendation pointed. Wins and misses are recorded the same way. A record that only kept the wins would be worthless.
Asks first. Brings the work to you before anything happens.
Acts, then shows you. Does the work and files it in your workspace.
Acts in the open. Exceptions flagged, everything undoable.
Handles it, within limits you set.
Each member of your team has a single dial, set by you, in their own work. Until you set it, everything asks first — a new teammate starts at Draft, not at a default we picked. The record never moves the dial on its own: when a streak of clean approvals supports it, your Chief of Staff recommends a raise with the record attached, and the dial moves only when you accept. One reversal takes it back — instantly, by your hand or by its own.
Strategy, pricing, and anything irreversible come to you regardless of any dial, forever. No streak earns those. Yours to decide, always.
The dial governs what your team does on its own when you are not in the room. When you are talking with your Chief of Staff, your word is the authority: what you ask for is done, at any setting. If a change crosses a line you did not draw — pricing, strategy, replacing a filed document — it says so in plain words, tells you what that means on the ladder, and asks right there. Your yes is all it takes. Nothing waits on a dial while you are the one asking.