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Notes from building the departments: how one is built, who says yes, and how a company adds one without rebuilding itself.
How it is built · 28 May 2026 · 5 min
A chat answers. A department owns the result.
Why the unit of AI work in a company is a team with a job, not a box you type into — and what that changes.
Read the noteWho says yes · 14 May 2026 · 6 min
How much a department may do alone
The Human Agency Scale: five levels, chosen per department and per task, where a higher number means more human control, not less.
Read the noteNotes from building · 30 April 2026 · 5 min
Adding a department without rebuilding the company
The same structure runs a two-person studio and a group with several business units. Here is what makes it stretch.
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