The operating team you need
before you can hire one.
Fifteen colleagues with names and roles, working with you in chat. They share one brain, follow the way your workplace does things, and every piece of their work ends with you.
Your workspace gets its own address, like acme.chat.avos.vc.
Aegis, anything in the replies we should not promise?
One reply implied a date. I reworded it to “planned”; the rest are fine.
Replies reviewed. Sending all nine.
Board meeting Thursday. I need the Q3 memo: numbers, what shipped, what’s next.
Pulling Q3 now. Burn, runway, and revenue by month are in the shared wiki as of this morning. Drafting the numbers section.
Numbers section drafted, one page, with the workings linked. Ready for your review.
Good. Loom, what shipped?
Twelve roadmap items closed in Q3, three carried over. Summary drafted with the ClickUp links beside each one.
Vega, pull it together.
Memo assembled from Ledger’s and Loom’s drafts, four pages. The what’s-next section proposes two bets; both are flagged for your call.
Reviewed. Sending to the board.
Three things hold the team together.
Built for the person, from a role.
Each colleague starts from a role template and is then shaped to the person it works with: how they work, what they own, what they may ask for. A change lands in one place and reaches exactly the colleagues it should.
One shared brain.
Every colleague reads from and writes to one shared knowledge base. Tell the team something once; nobody re-teaches it. Each also keeps its own memory of its own work.
Skills, not hope.
How your workplace does things is written down as skills the team follows, so the standard lives in the team rather than in reminders to people.
Fifteen colleagues, each with a name.
Every workspace starts with the Steward, shared by everyone. The other fourteen are created from role templates as people need them, and each gets a channel with the person it works with.
Vega
Chief Executive Officer
Strategy, direction, cross-functional synthesis.
Forge
Chief Technology Officer
Architecture, technical judgment, engineering risk.
Prism
Chief Marketing Officer
Brand, positioning, go-to-market.
Loom
Product Manager
Roadmap, PRDs, prioritization, scope.
Chip
Software Developer
Writing and fixing code.
Lens
QA Engineer
Test plans, bug reports, release readiness.
Conduit
IT Operations
Infrastructure, CI/CD, deploys, monitoring.
Signal
Marketing Execution
Producing and shipping campaigns and content.
Orbit
Customer Success
Customer outcomes, adoption, churn risk.
Anchor
Customer Support
Support cases and the patterns behind them.
Catalyst
Revenue Operations
Pipeline analytics, revenue process, CRM data.
Ledger
Finance
Spend, burn, runway, reporting.
Hearth
People & HR
People, policy, culture, performance process.
Aegis
Legal & Compliance
Contracts, compliance, risk.
LeadershipBuildGrowRun
Every piece of work ends with a person.
No colleague hands work to another colleague. There is no unsupervised chain running while you sleep. Nothing they write reaches a customer, an inbox, a contract, or the public until a person has read it and sent it.
Who decides, at every level.
Launch post drafted, three variants, in the shared doc.
Reviewed. Publishing the second.
Fix is on a branch; pull request open with the test passing.
Reviewed. Merging.
Renewal note for the Northwind account drafted with the usage numbers.
Reviewed. Sending.
Every action and every edit is recorded where you can read it afterwards, and the configuration is kept in version control, so what you see is what runs.
Works in the tools the work already lives in.
Documents
- Google Drive
- Docs
- Sheets
- Calendar
Work
- ClickUp
- GitHub
- Vercel
Measure
- Google Analytics
- Google Ads
- PostHog
Customers
- Zoho CRM
- Zoom
- Browser
Left blank by design. No colleague gets an inbox, so nothing leaves under a person’s name without that person.
Start with the Steward. Add the rest
as there is work for them.
Sign up, name the business, choose a workspace name. Provisioning takes minutes, and the Steward is waiting in the shared channel when you arrive.