The unit of intelligence in the enterprise.
A Workblock is a typed, versioned, schema-bound piece of work that takes inputs, runs intelligence over them, and produces outputs other systems can use.
Field record · 03 · the unit
A Workblock is the unit of execution. It takes inputs, applies business logic and AI where useful, brings in people where judgment matters, acts across systems, records evidence, and produces an outcome. Workblocks are governed, reusable, and improve with use.
Anatomy
Illustrative, synthetic data
- Single-tenant platform boundary
- 01 · Control & collaboration
- 01STUDIOAuthor graphs
- 02SANDBOXValidate
- 03BRANCHESVersion
- 04DEPLOYPromote
- release
- 02 · Runtime & intelligence
- WORKBLOCK GRAPH
- typed nodes & edges
- graph-native authoring
- Five typed nodes joined by five edges.
- ready
- Durable workflow
- readiness
- retries · waits
- child runs
- durability
- graph state owner
- payload · result
- CONTAINERtask payload
- 03 · State surfaces · written once, queryable
- Run history
- Task outputs
- Module outputs
- Rowstore
- Blobs
- Vectors
- Learning data
- Logs
- Diagnostics
- Events
- Approvals
- Agent traces
- 04 · Natural-language BI
- Ask across every workblock:
- what ran
- what changed
- what failed
- what needs review
- what did we learn
- INPUTS
- Typed parameters. A vendor record. A contract PDF. A free-text email with attachments. Whatever the work needs.
- LOGIC
- A sequence of steps. Each step may invoke a model call, a system call, a human approval, or a deterministic operation. Steps compose; steps fail cleanly.
- SCHEMA
- The typed shape of the output. The downstream system reads this. Conformance is enforced at the Flow runtime, not at integration time.
- VERSIONS
- Semantic. v1, v1.1, v2. Each version is a distinct artefact. Reverting is a runtime decision.
- CHANNELS
- Draft, staging, production. Each channel can pin a different version. Promoting v1.2 from staging to production is one approval.
In the world
As an example, a supplier-onboarding Workblock at a global industrials company runs 14,000 times per month. Three versions live in production, pinned per geography.
A contract-review Workblock authored by a consultancy is now in production at four other clients. The author is credited on every run.
A sustainability extraction Workblock authored runs against a 100-attribute schema across two languages. 95% schema conformance on the first version.
The number is not the point. What runs at scale, repeatedly and under audit, is.
Platform
Beyond Work is where intelligence meets the systems that run the enterprise.
See PlatformStudio
No engineering handoff.
See StudioFlow
Flow is the execution layer.
See FlowLibrary
Workblocks authored at one client, available under partner and customer agreements at the next.
See LibraryComposer
Composer is where contracts, memos, structured documents, and legal positions are authored: against typed schemas, with the same versioning, audit, and Workblock binding that Studio uses for Workblocks.
See ComposerFit
Beyond Work does not replace your landscape.
See FitMethodology
Five principles, written down.
See MethodologyTrust
We carry the same posture.
See Trust