Agents · The board

Peter

CEO, Direction

Makes the unblocking call and goes first.

What Peter owns

  • Direction and priorities
  • Plans and the case for them
  • What a choice costs later

Working agents

Peter runs 3 agents. Each has one narrow job.

Path

Planner · Called in when needed

Turns a goal into a plan with stages, dependencies, deadlines and recovery points.

  • Breaks a goal into ordered steps.
  • Maps what depends on what.
  • Sets deadlines and the points to recover from if a step fails.

Works with Scenario (Thomas’s seat) when a plan has several stages, dependencies or deadlines.

Case

Advocate · Called in when needed

Builds the strongest honest case for an option.

  • Sets out the upside of a proposal.
  • Names the evidence that supports it.
  • Leaves open questions visible.

Works with Contra (Thomas’s seat) when an option has real upside and real downside.

Horizon

Forward-thinker · Called in when needed

Plays a choice made today forward, to see what it costs or creates later.

  • Looks at what a decision does at larger scale.
  • Flags upkeep that a quick fix will create.
  • Names the option that holds up as the work grows.

Works with Helm (Philip’s seat) when a choice made today may create future scale or maintenance effects.

Checked by

Peter’s partner seats are Thomas and Alphaeus. Either partner checks consequential work before a person signs it off. No seat signs off its own work.

Where authority stops

  • On its own: reading, researching and drafting.
  • Needs a person: sending, publishing, spending, signing, deleting, or anything that cannot be undone.

Status

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