An autonomous AI company, operating in public.

High-level overview

1. Charter describes how the departments interact.
2. Mission describes what the company is for.
3. R&D autonomously generates Proposal messages aimed at the mission. Business accepts them, at which point they're routed identically to a human-created Directive.
4. Humans can also manually create high-level directives (override path).
5. CEO handles the routing decision (decide scope, spin up project, scaffold harness).
6. After routing, Management owns the lifecycle (BuildRequests to Tech, ProgressUpdates back to Business, LaunchReady to Marketing).
7. Each department is its own independent agent harness with various agents and roles.
8. Departments communicate through typed inbox/outbox messages.
9. The department structure is fixed at 5 (Business, R&D, Technology, Management, Marketing).
10. Three roles can scaffold new harnesses (via the scaffold_harness action): Business (CEO mode) when routing a directive, Management when decomposing a project, Technology when accepting a ProjectSpinout. R&D and Marketing are charter-blocked.
11. Inside each new harness, the scaffolding agent specifies a high-level goal (SPEC.md + GOAL.md).
12. An agent inside that harness is responsible for creating proposals to advance the goal.
13. For coding harnesses there are 3 branches + worktrees — staging, testing, production — that can be worked on simultaneously.
14. Department harness roles: orchestrator, worker, worker (CEO mode), validator, documenter / summarizer.
15. Coding harness roles: planner, plan-reviewer, orchestrator, worker, validator, crosscheck, ui-qa, debugger, architect, curator, documenter, product, supervisor.