GUIDE: Governed Unified Intelligence for Document-to-Artifact Generation in Enterprise Settings
GUIDE is a governed multi-agent framework for enterprise guideline documents. It uses a shared versioned rule store, schema-validated inter-agent contracts, and end-to-end provenance tracking. Six specialized agents handle parsing, VLM-driven extraction, consistency checking, evaluation, human-in-the-loop escalation, and persona-tailored artifact synthesis. Evaluated on 120 real-world enterprise guideline documents, GUIDE achieves 96% document success, extracts 3,896 rules with 71.4% auto-approved, produces 812 deployment-ready artifacts, and reduces turnaround to 40-125 minutes per document.
Enterprise guideline documents are heterogeneous and multimodal, combining narrative text, complex tables, and embedded images. Existing LLM and VLM systems face hallucinated content, table structure degradation, and lack governed workflows extending beyond extraction to validation and artifact generation. This leaves enterprises to perform this manually, consuming 2-3 days per document. GUIDE addresses this with a governed multi-agent framework built on a shared versioned rule store with schema-validated inter-agent contracts and end-to-end provenance tracking. Six specialized agents handle parsing, VLM-driven extraction, consistency checking, evaluation, human-in-the-loop escalation, and persona-tailored artifact synthesis. Evaluated on 120 real-world enterprise guideline documents, GUIDE achieves 96% document success, extracts 3,896 rules with 71.4% auto-approved, produces 812 deployment-ready artifacts, and reduces turnaround to 40-125 minutes per document.
GUIDE's architecture uses a shared versioned rule store and schema-validated inter-agent contracts to enforce governance across a multi-agent pipeline. The inclusion of a dedicated consistency checking agent and human-in-the-loop escalation suggests a focus on reducing hallucination and ensuring rule integrity. The 71.4% auto-approval rate indicates that a significant portion of extracted rules pass automated validation, while the remainder require human review. The reduction from 2-3 days to 40-125 minutes per document implies substantial efficiency gains through parallel agent execution and streamlined validation.
This framework targets a common enterprise pain point: converting complex, multimodal guideline documents into actionable artifacts. The emphasis on governance, provenance, and human-in-the-loop aligns with enterprise requirements for auditability and compliance. The reported metrics (96% document success, 812 artifacts) suggest readiness for pilot deployments in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. The approach may influence how enterprises adopt multi-agent systems for document-intensive workflows.
GUIDE offers potential cost and time savings by automating the conversion of enterprise guideline documents into deployment-ready artifacts. The reduction from 2-3 days to 40-125 minutes per document could translate to significant labor cost reduction and faster time-to-compliance. The governance features (versioned rule store, provenance) reduce risk and support audit requirements, making it attractive for enterprises in regulated sectors.
Next observable signals include: (1) publication of a peer-reviewed version or additional benchmarks on public datasets; (2) enterprise pilot announcements or case studies from industries with heavy documentation requirements; (3) open-sourcing of the framework or components; (4) comparisons with other document-to-artifact systems; (5) expansion to other document types beyond guidelines.