ACE Framework
From Experience to Capability
The essence of enterprise AI is not deploying agents — it is accumulating organizational capability. The ACE Framework defines the complete engineering path from individual experience to organizational capability.
Philosophy
An enterprise is not made of software. The goal of AI is not to replace roles, but to help roles build capability that keeps evolving.
The role capability path
Nine stages — starting from experience, ultimately accumulating as organizational capability.
- 00
Experience
The real actions, judgment and know-how inside a role.
- 01
Workflow
Make tacit experience explicit as standard workflows.
- 02
Knowledge
Capture the decision criteria and domain knowledge inside the flow.
- 03
Skill
Formalize knowledge into reusable, executable capability units.
- 04
Agent
Agents carry skills and perform intelligent execution.
- 05
Role Capability
Skills and agents combine into complete role capability.
- 06
Shared Capability
Reused across roles, forming shared enterprise capability.
- 07
Governance
Standards, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
- 08
Organization Capability
Org Capability
Ultimately accumulating as continuously evolving organizational capability.
Agents are the execution layer, not the destination. What accumulates is organizational capability.
The ACE Five-Step Method
An engineering method for turning role expertise into capability assets.
- ①
Map the real action chain
Reconstruct how the role actually works — not the idealized process.
- ②
Annotate inputs / outputs / decision criteria
Make the context of every action explicit.
- ③
Find high-frequency, well-defined entry points
Start where determinism is highest.
- ④
Formalize into Skills
Solidify experience and rules into reusable capability units.
- ⑤
Chain into Workflows with governance gates
Form end-to-end flows with quality and compliance built in.
Enterprise capability architecture
Organizational capability governs top-down; role capability grows bottom-up.
- L8Organization CapabilityOrg Capability
- L7Governance
- L6Shared Capability
- L5Role Capability
- L4Agent
- L3Skill
- L2Knowledge
- L1Workflow
- L0Experience