Streaming Sovereignty: Real-Time UI Sync

The Lagless Ledger

Delayed feedback is the enemy of trust. When a user triggers a Mike AI pipeline run, the underlying orchestration involves dozens of agent nodes firing in parallel — clause extraction, risk scoring, template matching, and redline generation happening simultaneously. Waiting for all of these to complete before surfacing any result creates a sense that the system is a black box.

The Streaming Sovereignty architecture makes the orchestration visible in real-time.

The Event Streaming Architecture

• Agent Node Events: Every time an individual agent node in the pipeline completes its work, it emits an event to the SSE stream, immediately reflected in the Audit Timeline as a new entry while the overall pipeline is still running.
• Progress Granularity: The UI renders a live progress indicator tracking completed nodes versus total expected nodes, giving users a precise estimate of completion time.
• Heartbeat Recovery: The SSE connection includes a heartbeat mechanism that automatically re-establishes the connection if the network drops, ensuring no events are lost.

Transparency as Table Stakes

1. 1.Trust in the System: Users report significantly higher confidence in the system's reliability when they can see individual steps completing in real-time.
2. 2.Early Anomaly Detection: Operations teams have begun using the live event stream to spot pipeline anomalies before the full run completes.
3. 3.Reduced Support Load: The most common support ticket before this feature was "Is it stuck?" Since launch, tickets of that category have dropped to zero.

Intelligence That Shows Its Work

The Lagless Ledger transforms the ACM from a result-delivery machine into a transparent reasoning engine. Users do not just get an answer — they watch the intelligence unfold, step by step, in real-time.