Layer 5: Governance Engine

Meeting Governance That Actually Sticks

Every organization has meeting policies. Almost none enforce them. Tolly's governance engine turns guidelines into guardrails — with hard blocks, approval workflows, and compliance reporting that make meeting policy real.

The enforcement gap

What most companies do

  • Send a Slack message asking people to have fewer meetings
  • Declare "No Meeting Wednesdays" with no enforcement mechanism
  • Add meeting guidelines to the employee handbook nobody reads
  • Hope that culture alone will change calendar behavior

What Tolly does

  • Blocks meeting creation on designated meeting-free days
  • Routes oversized meetings through approval workflows
  • Flags policy violations in real time with manager notifications
  • Generates compliance reports that prove policy is working

Six policy types. Real enforcement.

Configure the policies that matter to your organization. Each one comes with enforcement, not just monitoring.

Meeting-Free Days

Block entire days from meetings across the organization. Not a suggestion — a hard block in the calendar system that prevents scheduling.

Example: No meetings on Wednesdays, company-wide

Attendee Caps

Set maximum attendee limits by meeting type. Meetings that exceed the threshold require approval from a designated approver.

Example: Status updates capped at 5 attendees

Duration Limits

Default meeting durations to 25 or 50 minutes instead of 30/60. Enforce maximum duration limits that require justification to override.

Example: All meetings default to 25 minutes

Approval Workflows

Require VP or executive sign-off for meetings above cost thresholds. Large, expensive meetings get reviewed before they happen.

Example: Meetings costing >$2,000 need VP approval

Recurring Meeting Audits

Automatically flag recurring meetings that haven't been reviewed in 90 days. Require organizers to justify continuation or cancel.

Example: Auto-review all recurring meetings quarterly

Agenda Requirements

Require an agenda before a meeting can be scheduled. No agenda, no meeting — enforced at the calendar level.

Example: Meetings without agendas are blocked

Compliance reporting that proves it's working

Track policy adherence by team, department, and individual. See who's following the rules, who isn't, and how compliance trends over time.

  • Calendar-level blocking that prevents policy violations before they happen
  • Approval workflows that route to the right decision-maker automatically
  • Compliance dashboard showing real-time adherence by team and department
  • Full governance audit log with every policy action, override, and exception
  • Escalation paths for serial policy violators with manager notifications
  • Configurable grace periods for new policy rollouts

Before Tolly vs. after Tolly

Average results from pilot customers after 90 days with the governance engine.

MetricBefore TollyAfter Tolly
Policy compliance rate62%91%
Meetings with agendas34%87%
Average meeting duration47 min31 min
Recurring meetings reviewed12%94%

Built for COOs and Operations leaders

Operations leaders own the meeting problem but lack the tools to solve it. Tolly gives you the enforcement layer that turns meeting policy from a culture initiative into an operational discipline — with the data to prove it's working.

91%

Policy Compliance

Average across pilot customers

5 min

Setup Time

Configure your first policy

$2.4M

Avg. Annual Savings

For 500-person company

See the governance engine in action

Book a 20-minute demo tailored for Operations leaders. We'll show you how to set up your first policy in 5 minutes.