SCOI Atlas · L6 Orchestration
L6B Human-in-the-Loop★
Where and how humans check, correct, or approve agent work — and how those signals train the system.
TL;DR · Direct answer
L6B Human-in-the-Loop is a sublayer of L6 Orchestration in the Supply Chain of Intelligence™ (SCOI) by Anand Arivukkarasu. It is one of the structurally defensible sublayers (Defensible Triangle) where moats actually compound. Design HITL as a product surface, not an error state. Every human correction is a training example — capture it.
What actually matters at L6B
- HITL is not a fallback — it is a training signal factory.
- The interaction design of HITL determines whether the model gets better or the human gets tired.
- Regulated verticals require HITL by law in some workflows.
The startup lens
Design HITL as a product surface, not an error state. Every human correction is a training example — capture it.
Vertical lens — how this plays across categories
Legal / finance / medical AI
Expert reviewers producing structured feedback that feeds L1D.
Content moderation
Human queues that shape policy models over time.
Sales AI
AE overrides captured as reward signal.
How to defend L6B
- HITL UX that captures reasons, not just outcomes.
- Feedback loop from HITL into eval + training pipelines.
Other sublayers in L6 Orchestration
L6A
Agent Loops
Plan-execute-reflect loops; ReAct; multi-agent choreographies.
L6C
Role Routing & Task Decomposition
Breaking work into subtasks and routing each to the right skill, tool or sub-agent.
L6D
Context & State Management
What the agent knows at any moment: session, thread, run, task, world.
L6E
Runtime Assurance & Learning Loops
Live monitoring, drift detection and the loops that improve the system from production data.