How a company file becomes the acts it permits.
A management structure taken from cybernetics, an authority model that keeps the irreversible with a person, and a ladder agents climb on their record.
From the file to the act.
One company on Actborne, drawn with the names the system uses. Each numbered arrow matches one sentence in the numbered list.
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The current phase states what the company is proving now, and its metrics say how that is measured.
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2
Each workflow entry names its purpose, its trigger and the agent that runs it.
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3
Every action a workflow calls is classed before it runs: L1 acts and logs, L2 waits for a person, L3 hands the matter to a person.
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Recuriant runs the workflow and compiles the decision rights into the gate on its dispatch path.
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Only acts that pass the gate reach Stripe, Resend, Plane or GitHub, and each one is written to the record.
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When a person overrides a decision, the change returns as a pull request against company.yaml.
Six functions run a company.
Stafford Beer's Viable System Model describes what any organization needs to stay viable. Actborne implements it as a wiring diagram: six systems, each with its own job and its own record.
- S1 Operations
- The work itself. Answering a customer, running the routing engine, watching the crawler. Bounded by written policy a person approved.
- S2 Coordination
- When two operating agents want the same resource at the same moment, coordination is the shared calendar and lock table that keeps them from thrashing.
- S3 Control
- Present-tense management. Allocates budget and attention across operations, and holds the standards operations meet today.
- S3* Independent audit
- A verification channel with its own line to policy. It samples reported work and checks it, with a judge from a different model family from the agent it audits.
- S4 Intelligence
- Outside and forward. Market shifts, competitive moves, what the company should become. It feeds policy, which decides.
- S5 Policy
- Identity, and the final balance between what control sees inside today and what intelligence sees outside tomorrow. In an Actborne company, you are policy.
Autonomy is a track record.
A new agent, or a new class of action, starts at the bottom and climbs. A configuration flag alone moves nobody up.
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Always human
Spend above your threshold, legal commitments and deletions with no undo wait for you at every rung.
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Operate, approval-gated
Executes higher-impact actions once you have approved that class of action.
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Operate, reversible
Executes low-impact, reversible actions alone. Every one is logged.
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Advise
Recommends one specific next action, with its reasoning on the record.
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Observe
Reads the company and drafts proposals. A person decides.
Company as code.
Org structure, policy, goals and procedures live as versioned YAML and markdown in a repository your company owns. Every policy change, goal edit and new procedure is a commit, attributable and revertible.
- metadata:
- name: flights
- identity:
- principles:
- - The cheapest path is a graph problem,
- not a fare-class lookup. We compose
- itineraries airlines never sell as one
- ticket.
- - Self-transfer honesty is the product. We
- always tell the traveler the legs are
- separate tickets with no
- airline-guaranteed connection.
- lifecycle:
- current_phase: phase_0_prove_engine # Prove the engine
Connecting your current operation.
A company that already runs moves onto Actborne in four steps, in this order.
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Process inventory
Every recurring process is written down with its owner, its inputs and the decision it produces. You agree the list before anything connects.
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Credentials and permissions
Each connection runs on a key you issue, with the narrowest scope that system offers, and you can revoke it at any time. The company file lists the tools each agent role may call.
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Systems
Email, payments, project tracking and code hosting connect through the connectors in Recuriant’s catalog. A system with no connector stays in people’s hands.
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The first agreed operation
One operation moves first, with its agent at the Observe rung. It climbs on its record, and the next operation starts once you accept the first.
Built on Recuriant.
Actborne is the company layer. Recuriant is the operating system underneath: it runs agents, gates what they do and keeps the record. Recuriant is proprietary today. A deployment in your own cluster is arranged on Recuriant’s Enterprise plan.