Outcome Name the data outcome Mage should keep true for the business.
Responsibility is data work Mage owns for you
Own the daily customer health dataset for the CS team.
Mage
I've created a responsibility for this outcome.
- workflows that collect product, billing, and support data
- checks for freshness, missing accounts, and unusual score changes
- a weekday delivery schedule before the CS standup
- alerts when the dataset is late or incomplete
- a review path for changes to scoring logic
You’ll see the current status, recent activity, implementation details, and anything that needs judgment.
Tell Mage what to own. A responsibility is an outcome Mage keeps true.
It may include workflows, code, schedules, checks, integrations, alerts, and repair logic.
You define the outcome. Mage operates the system behind it.
What a responsibility includes
Workflows Connect the workflows that collect, transform, deliver, and maintain the outcome.
Systems Show the systems, credentials, sources, destinations, and dependencies involved.
Schedule Run the work on the cadence the responsibility requires.
Checks Check freshness, completeness, missing records, unusual changes, and downstream readiness.
Status See whether the outcome is healthy, at risk, paused, or waiting for judgment.
Activity Review recent runs, alerts, repairs, approvals, and meaningful changes.
Repair history Track failures, proposed fixes, retries, and the decisions that needed human review.
Most teams think in tasks
Most teams think in tasks. Sync this table. Run that job. Update this report. Fix this failure. But the real business need is larger: the customer health dataset should be ready every morning, revenue numbers should be trustworthy, Salesforce and the warehouse should stay aligned, and the AI agent should have current context.
From workflow status to outcome status
A workflow can be green while the outcome is incomplete. A responsibility asks a better question: is the thing we care about still true?
Judgment where it matters
Mage does not ask users to review everything. Instead, it surfaces the decisions that actually need human judgment: risky repairs, business rule changes, new source dependencies, missing permissions, unusual output changes, and downstream impact. You stay focused, outcomes stay true.
