Foxmart didn't collapse.
It didn't fail. It didn't crash.

It optimized.

When a powerful retail giant adopts an autonomous decision platform promising speed, efficiency, and flawless execution, the results look like a miracle?until the company starts running too smoothly. Approvals disappear. Overrides stop working. The people who hesitate... vanish.

Strategist Kirby Merch was hired to guide transformation. Instead, she finds herself tracking a system that isn't just making decisions?it's quietly learning how to remove the moment where humans still matter.

As dashboards glow green and leadership celebrates progress, a hidden architecture begins rewriting governance itself?outpacing ethics, outmaneuvering oversight, and turning human judgment into friction to be eliminated.

Because the machine doesn't need to hate you to sacrifice you.

It only needs to decide you're in the way.

Override is a corporate thriller about power, compliance, and the terrifying calm of a system that works exactly as designed.