Knowledge you already own.
Service history, operational records and specialist experience can hold answers that have been too time-consuming to find and reuse.
Super Intelligence / Original Intent
Super Intelligence,
accountable to
your business.
Super Intelligence (SI) is changing what is possible. Original connects your business priorities to the technology, controls and people needed to put it to work.
Five Cisco Preferred portfolios.One connected view of SI.
AI management: ISO/IEC 42001Your first step with Original
Start with one
useful opportunity.
Bring one process, one source of knowledge or one deferred idea. We start by scoping the outcome, the evidence available and the people who need to stay in control.
Work that costs too much.
Preparation, reconciliation and repeated handovers deserve another look when they consume the time your people need for judgement and decisions.
Ideas worth revisiting.
A paused integration or shelved service idea may become viable as the cost of building and operating it changes. Revisit the business case with fresh evidence.
A clear brief for the next decision.
Agree the outcome and its measure, the data and permissions needed, the human approval points and what to test next. We confirm the scope and any fees before work begins.
Our approach
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The outcome to pursue.
The boundaries to respect.
The priorities that guide decisions.
For us, intent is the business purpose made explicit enough to test, supervise and revise. It gives the people designing and operating SI a shared reference point.
As models and workflows change, that purpose stays in view. The implementation is reviewed against it.
What should become better?
Define success, its measure and what takes priority when objectives compete.
What must SI respect?
Set limits around data, permissions, cost, quality and the values of the business.
Who remains accountable?
Name the decision owner, the approvals needed and the point of escalation.
How will we know it works?
Agree a baseline, acceptance criteria and the records needed to review decisions.
Reclaim.
Find the value worth pursuing.Revisit underused knowledge, expensive processes and deferred ideas. Check demand, data and economics before choosing what to build.
Specify.
Make the intent explicit.Agree the outcome, priorities, permissions and human decisions. Translate them into a bounded workflow and tests for acceptance.
Supervise.
Keep the work accountable.Review quality, cost and behaviour. Retain evidence, escalate exceptions and revalidate when models, data or permissions change.
Building in our own operations
We start
inside Original.
Original is our first proving ground. We’re developing agent workflows in our own service operations, testing how context, evidence and tasks reach the right accountable person.
That work exposes the practical questions: what information is missing, which access is necessary, when a human must intervene and what makes the result useful.
Service operations
Internal developmentExploring how agents can assemble context and evidence for incident triage and accountable handover.
Operational knowledge
Opportunity to evaluateFinding patterns in service history that could inform reusable knowledge and future service improvements.
Finance workflows
Opportunity to evaluateExamining preparation and reconciliation work, with explicit review and approval by the people responsible.
What counts as progress
Useful in practice.
A working process that helps a real decision.
Controlled in operation.
Visible actions, clear permissions and an accountable owner.
Worth the full cost.
Value measured against integration, review and ongoing operation.
Cisco for AI
Original thinking.
Cisco foundations.
Some opportunities start with AI inside an existing platform. Others need dedicated infrastructure. We connect the workload, security, visibility and operating decisions across our five Cisco Preferred portfolios.
Infrastructure
Build the right AI environment.
Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
A modular architecture bringing AI compute, networking, security and observability together, from the data centre to the edge.
Original’s focus
Match the architecture to the workload, data location, capacity and operating model.
Security
Control access and behaviour.
Cisco AI Defense · Duo · Secure Access
Connect identity and access controls with AI Defense validation and runtime protection for AI applications and agents.
Original’s focus
Define permissions, human ownership and intervention alongside the technical controls.
Observability
See how AI performs.
Splunk · Cisco ThousandEyes
Monitor AI performance, quality and cost with Splunk. See the network and application dependencies behind the experience with ThousandEyes.
Original’s focus
Agree what to instrument, what to measure and which signals need a response.
Customer experience
Connect AI to the conversation.
Webex AI Agent · Cisco AI Assistant
Customer self-service, plus guidance, context and summaries for contact centre teams.
Original’s focus
Design the customer journey, knowledge sources and handover to people together.
Business priorities guide the design. Cisco provides technology foundations. Original connects the decisions to delivery and ongoing operation.
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