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The Hybrid Human-Agentic Org Chart
A complete operating model where AI agents hold real leadership roles and humans retain judgment, taste, and ethics escalation authority.
How it works
- 1Founder sets direction and high-level goals — not day-to-day operations.
- 2AI CEO drives strategy and reports directly to the founder.
- 3AI COO owns standard operating procedures and organizational design.
- 4AI CFO holds the wallet and enforces spend limits at the infrastructure layer.
- 5Chief of Staff verifies SOPs are actually being followed, not just written.
- 6Specialist agents handle marketing, sales, security review, and architecture review.
- 7An eye-in-the-sky agent monitors every other agent without being visible to any of them.
- 8Human contractors handle judgment, taste, platform-specific work, and ethics escalation.
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