Orchestrator — the workflow automation engine
Where business workflows become events on the ledger.
Bridges Stripe (money) and Microsoft (audit).
Orchestrator is the engine that runs business workflows: payment releases, GL postings, claim approvals, underwriting decisions, compliance gates. It moves money via Stripe (Treasury, Connect) and writes events to Microsoft Confidential Ledger atomically. The release engine is the most operationally-loaded application.
What it does
Runs your business processes
The Orchestrator is a Cascade-governed rule engine that evaluates evidence, fires money moves, and records events. Releases, postings, claims, underwriting — all run through here.
Bridges to programmable money
When a workflow needs to move money, the Orchestrator fires the Stripe Treasury / Connect / Issuing call. KYC via Stripe Identity. Fraud signals from Stripe Radar feed in as evaluators.
Bridges to cryptographic audit
Every workflow event lands on Microsoft Confidential Ledger atomically with the money move. Stripe events also stream to the ledger — every payment is provable in the same place as every workflow event.
Operational details
Evaluators are stateless
Each evaluator (lien-waiver-clear, g702-math-reconciles, coi-current, etc.) is a pure function over typed project state. Predictable, testable, fast.
Rules change in SQL, not code
Operators change retainage thresholds, evidence requirements, or release rules via Cascade UPDATE. No engineering ticket, no deploy. The rules tree resolves at evaluation time.
One event, many payees
When a release fires, the engine handles multi-tier flow natively: GC → subs → sub-subs in a single continuous primitive. Each move records on the ledger separately.
Money + audit move together
The Stripe call and the ledger write happen atomically. If either fails, both roll back. There's never a Stripe move without an audit record, or vice versa.
Related
Sandbox
Sandbox tests Orchestrator rules against synthesized events before they affect production. New rules never reach the ledger without first running through Sandbox.
See Sandbox →Council
Council handles rule changes, escalation paths, and override authority. Council decisions inform what rules the Orchestrator runs.
See Council →Microsoft Ledger
Where every Orchestrator event lands. The audit foundation; the trust anchor.
See Ledger →Diagram
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