How it works
A cell walks six atoms for every instruction. A colony of cells heals, evolves, divides and dies. An organisation founds six offices from those colonies, in order, when the record earns them. Same ring at every scale; only the titles change.
The CEO's seat is the instruction. From there the cell walks the ring in a fixed order; the light on the home page is where the work is.
Benzeneheal_max_attempts times under a cost ceiling. A failed guardrail also sends the skill to the evolver for repair.evolve_below (0.80) the evolver proposes one mutation; it is accepted only when the eval set scores it better within a tolerance. Principles per virtue may be refined, never dropped.divide_below (0.66) with two or more skills, the cell splits: the strong skills to one daughter, the weak to the other. The scout defines each daughter's guardrails.An organisation is one purpose and six office colonies under .benzene/offices/. Nothing is founded on a clock. Each office is founded when the record meets its rule.
| Office | Founded when | Charge | Measures |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTO | at the start | builds the product; its verifiers are the product's own checks | verified builds |
| COO | the CTO cluster is healed | takes the instructions Jev routes to it, answers with a JSON plan held to a schema, dispatches tickets with acceptance criteria across offices in waves, on a board | throughput |
| CMO | the COO has one verified plan | writes the campaign from the record; every number must be on the record | reach |
| CXO | the launch milestone | turns feedback into a perspective; convenes a Product Hunt panel | satisfaction |
| CFO | revenue or investment on the record | prices every office; its balance sheet must reconcile with the ledger | revenue |
| CIO | users or satisfaction on the record | keeps the investors' ledger; convenes a Shark Tank | investment |
Chartered offices. The CTO's genome is written by hand. The other five are chartered at founding: a built-in charter specialised for the purpose by the evolver model, with the scout proving their first guardrails on the workspace. With a researched standard on the organisation, every office is founded with the competition's checkable bars already in its guardrail, the number of cells the onboarding decided, and the cadence its duty runs at; the organisation's phase (healing, prepared, publishing, evolving) says how far it is from the bar and whether an audience exists yet for feedback to steer.
Where an instruction goes: Jev decides. With a decider model on the manifest (TypeSafe Jev, typesafe/jev-router on OpenRouter) every instruction is one typed choice: the COO for a plan across offices, or one active office, each described by its charge and its cells' skills; inside the office a second choice picks the cell. A calibrated confidence comes back with the pick, and a pick under 0.5 is not trusted: the COO plans. Live: the CLI crashes on init, fix it went to the CTO at 1.00, rewrite the launch campaign to the CMO at 0.99, plan the next release: docs, a campaign and a pricing page to the COO at 0.70. The report says who decided, and a route event lands on the record. Without a decider, the COO takes everything once it exists.
The CFO atom is counted, not described. A verified pass earns value_usd × score; every task spends its model cost; revenue reported with feedback is earned by the cell that did the work. The organisation's financial guardrail says too early, growing or burning against a minimum ROI once enough has been spent to mean anything.
Sixteen rungs from self to universe emperor. At the micro scale the CTO is "the engineer"; at the universal scale, "infrastructure of the universe". scale: c-suite on the manifest picks the titles; the ring is the same.
# manifests/org/skills-cli.yaml
name: skills-cli
purpose: Build the best front-end architecture CLI and earn from it
scale: c-suite
offices:
- {office: cto, manifest: skills-cli-cto.yaml}
- {office: coo, founded_when: {after: cto, stage: healed}}
- {office: cmo, founded_when: {after: coo, verified_tasks: 1}}
- {office: cxo, founded_when: {milestone: launch}}
- {office: cfo, founded_when: {any_metric: {revenue_usd: 1, investment_usd: 1}}}
- {office: cio, founded_when: {any_metric: {users: 100, satisfaction: 0.7}}}
board: {kind: local} # or linear
evaluations:
cxo: {format: product_hunt, every: 3}
cio: {format: shark_tank, every: 5}
heartbeat:
approve: [feature]
monitor_beats: 5