Enactive AI Framework for Enterprise Decision-Making

Zuojun Max Shen, Yuan Qu, Pujun Zhang, Anbang Liu, Yunhao Liang· August 5, 2026 View original

Key takeaways

  • Enactive AI is a decision-centric framework for deploying AI in complex enterprise systems.
  • It integrates strategic organizational logic with operational site-level execution.
  • The framework emphasizes reliability, feasibility, resilience, and responsibility in AI deployment.
  • It shifts AI focus from model capability to system-aware, governable action.

Who benefits

ManufacturingLogisticsEnergyHealthcareGovernment

Summary

Enactive AI is a new conceptual framework that integrates AI tools and agents into complex enterprise and industrial systems, prioritizing decision intelligence and system-aware action. It organizes AI deployment around four roles: Organizational World, Site World, Schema Intelligence, and Enactive Decision Cycle, aiming for reliable, governable, and socially valuable AI.

As AI matures beyond basic language and image generation, its application in real-world complex business and industrial systems faces challenges related to reliability, feasibility, and governance. This study introduces "Enactive AI," a conceptual framework designed to integrate AI into enterprise reasoning, site-level decision support, and execution feedback, focusing on decision intelligence. The Enactive AI framework is structured around four complementary roles. The "Organizational World" defines strategic operations management logic, while the "Site World" models physical industrial optimization. "Schema Intelligence" acts as the coupling mechanism, weaving various AI applications between these two world models. Finally, the "Enactive Decision Cycle" triggers a self-evolving dynamic process for continuous updates and auditing of the entire framework. By foregrounding decision intelligence, Enactive AI shifts the focus of AI progress from mere model capability to reliable, system-aware action within complex environments. This framework aims to enable scalable, governable, and socially valuable AI deployments, defining a new frontier for AI research in enterprise and industrial systems where consequential actions and responsible governance are paramount.

Why it matters

Enactive AI provides a strategic framework for professionals to design, deploy, and govern AI systems in complex organizational settings, ensuring reliability, accountability, and alignment with business objectives.

How to implement this in your domain

  1. 1Assess current AI initiatives against the Enactive AI framework to identify gaps in decision-centric integration and governance.
  2. 2Define "Organizational World" and "Site World" models for specific enterprise operations to structure AI deployment.
  3. 3Develop "Schema Intelligence" mechanisms to effectively link various AI applications and data sources across different operational levels.
  4. 4Implement an "Enactive Decision Cycle" for continuous feedback, learning, and auditing of AI-driven decisions.
  5. 5Prioritize AI projects that focus on supporting consequential actions and ensuring responsible governance within complex systems.

Original post by Zuojun Max Shen, Yuan Qu, Pujun Zhang, Anbang Liu, Yunhao Liang

"arXiv:2608.03413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve and mature, recent AI practices have moved beyond large language models (LLMs) and text or image generation tasks, increasingly integrating tools, agents, and harnesses to solve re…"

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