The Register

The Chair may go around at most fifteen times before the meeting ends.

15 rounds

The meeting ends the first time the Chair answers without asking for anything more.

the first answer that asks for no tool

When the Chair asks for a tool that is not on its list, the room answers with a refusal that names the missing tool and restates the tools it does have; the request is never met with silence.

a refusal naming the tool, the list restated

A meeting may consult every Seat at the Table at once; the cap is the size of the roster, not a smaller number.

the roster size

A Seat over the cap receives an explicit skip message; requests are never silently dropped.

a skip message, never silence

Strategy, Finance, Counsel, People, Operations, Marketing, Product, Board, Talent, Triage.

10 Seats

The four deep-reasoning Seats think at the low setting; higher settings cost roughly three times the time for no gain the Rehearsal could measure.

the low setting

Two cached blocks: who the agent is (long shelf life) and where it is working (short shelf life).

2 blocks

A budget of four cache markers per request; the design spends two on the Brief, one on the tool list, and keeps one for the conversation.

4 markers

The tool list is sorted by name before every request so its order never changes.

sorted, always

A cached read is billed at roughly a tenth of a fresh read.

0.1 of the fresh-read price

Four shelves kept apart: house knowledge, the client's documents, recorded failures, recent research.

4 shelves

A match at a similarity distance beyond 0.55 is discarded; a weak match is worse than none.

0.55 similarity distance

Messages of one or two characters never reach the Library; a three-letter business term still does.

under 3 characters

The next meeting opens by reading back the eight most recent decisions and every initiative still open.

8 recent decisions

The Minutes are extracted once the meeting has ended, so writing them can never slow the meeting itself.

after the meeting, by a separate hand

The Clock wakes every thirty seconds.

every 30 seconds

Claiming a job and marking it claimed happen in one indivisible step, so a job fires once and only once.

one indivisible claim

The design runs a single Clock; the claim is what guarantees a job fires once, and a second Clock would only waste work racing the first.

one Clock

A message near-identical to one already sent to the same person in the past six hours is refused.

6 hours

No more than five messages to one person in an hour.

5 per hour

Nothing is sent while a person is on leave or outside their working hours.

kept

If the Door itself errors, the message is allowed and the fault is written down; a guard that fails closed turns every outage into silence, and silence is the harder failure to see.

allowed, and logged

A company may set the Door to refuse rather than allow when the Door itself errors, for a named class of tools such as payments and regulatory filings; the default for everything else stays allowed and logged.

per tool class, by the buyer

When refused, the Chair is told why, so it can reschedule instead of retrying.

the reason, returned

When the person answers, the run records the decision and stops; a person restarts it.

captures the decision; does not auto-continue

An entry in the Record is never edited; a correction is a new entry and the old one stands, which is what makes the Record evidence rather than notes.

append only

A failed audit write is itself logged and can never break a meeting; a room that falls silent whenever the ledger hiccups is a room nobody keeps running.

never

The model is chosen per call, so one meeting can draw on several providers and owes none of them loyalty.

per call

At most two web searches per meeting; each is billed at the provider's published rate.

2 per meeting

A feature the chosen model does not support is removed before the request leaves, so routing to a different model can never turn a working call into an error.

stripped before sending

Each Seat carries one authority setting: act on its own, propose and wait for approval, or escalate to a person; it is a setting, not a promise.

act, propose, escalate

Every Seat ships at propose and wait; a person writes act, and the change is on the Record.

propose

A Seat's goals carry one of three states, reported on a cadence without being asked.

on track, at risk, off track

A message from anyone not on the roster is dropped without a reply; the room never converses with a stranger.

dropped unanswered

Approval rights are named per person: spend bands, hiring, vendor onboarding, legal signature; exactly one scope approves anything at all, and it belongs to the chief executive.

named, per person

A deliverable streams its plan before any of the work, so the reader can stop it before it spends.

the plan, first

When the person answers at a gate, the run records the decision and stops, exactly as at the Signature.

the Signature's rule, unchanged

An approval reply the design is less than 85 percent sure it understood is asked again, never guessed.

85 percent

The morning header synthesises what matters and never re-lists the items shown beneath it.

a synthesis

At most sixty inbound events are evaluated a minute; the alarm is rationed by design.

60 per minute

Every signal carries a stable duplicate key, so scanning the same source twice cannot raise the same alarm twice.

one alarm per signal

The design is examined on five dimensions: sounds like an executive, gets the domain right, uses the company's own situation, consults the right Seats, and says what to do next; each scenario is scored by a judge model that is not the model being examined.

5 dimensions

The examination average must reach 3.5 of 5 before a change ships.

3.5 of 5

Any single dimension slipping by more than 0.1 points on the 5-point scale fails the change, whatever the average says.

0.1 points of 5