Before Magistry, every meaningful paid decision queued behind a weekly sync. A creative was fatiguing on Tuesday, but the call to cut it didn't happen until the following Monday — six days of spend the team already knew was wasted.

The constraint wasn't a lack of insight. The team knew what to do. The constraint was that doing it required a human, a meeting, and a free afternoon — and those three rarely lined up before the window closed.

The Campaign Specialist now runs a planner-judge-executor cycle every six hours across all three channels. The planner proposes budget shifts and pauses; the judge scores each against Solace's own winner floor and policy gates; the executor writes the approved moves, each stamped with its reverse op.

Crucially, the kill switch sits with the Head of Paid Media. Autonomy was granted from a position of control, not surrendered. In ninety days it's been pressed once — a precaution during a platform outage — and cleared in minutes.

Throughput went up 4.3×, but the number the team talks about is different: every decision is now a row they can point at. When finance asks why budget moved, the answer is a decision_log entry with the judge score and the evidence it cited — not a reconstruction from Slack.

The Tuesday sync is gone. The team's job shifted from making each decision to setting the policy that makes them, and auditing the rows after the fact.