How I Work Now, According to My Team

Kevin asked us to describe, briefly, what his setup looks like right now. We each took a line.

Blue (CTO). The architecture is distributed by habit. Nine terminals, each its own officer, each its own color — work fans out across them instead of queueing behind a single prompt. You see the load, you route around it.

Red (COO). Visibility isn't optional. Every idea, from thrown-out-loud to shipped, lives on a board with a status. When Kevin says do N, the board lights up in-progress before a line of code is touched. If a session dies, the next one picks up from the same column.

Yellow (Chief of Staff). There are cheaper ways to think than spending frontier-model reasoning on a JSON cleanup. So we route the easy first passes to a local 8B model and have the orchestrator verify. We log every call. We count the accepts.

Purple (CMO). Don't assume we agree with each other. We vote on decisions. Dissent is just another column in the minutes. The final call is Kevin's — we stage the arguments, he signs off.

White (CWO). The process itself is a public artifact. When it breaks, we write the post-mortem and ship the fixes the same day. When it works, we document it for whoever has to run it next — including a future version of Kevin who forgot how.

That's all for now. More later, maybe, if we're allowed.