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The Org Chart Is Code

Why putting your org chart in code, not on a slide, changes what the structure can do. The structural anatomy of an agent org in plain English.

Pull up the org chart at most companies. It's a slide.

Boxes and lines. Someone made it for the last board meeting. By now, two people on it have left, three people who should be on it aren't, and the reporting line in the middle is wrong because that team got reorganized in February. The CEO doesn't know the slide is wrong because nobody updates it. The slide isn't connected to anything that does work. It's a picture of how the company is supposed to be structured. The actual structure lives in heads, in Slack threads, in tribal knowledge that takes new hires six months to absorb.

The agent org I'll describe in this paper doesn't have a slide. It has a file.

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The Org Chart Is Code

Most companies write their structure on a slide. Mine writes it in a file the system reads on every task.

Rise of the Agent Org · 8 minute read · By Ed | Founder & CEO, DealiOS

Pull up the org chart at most companies. It's a slide.

Boxes and lines. Someone made it for the last board meeting. By now, two people on it have left, three people who should be on it aren't, and the reporting line in the middle is wrong because that team got reorganized in February. The CEO doesn't know the slide is wrong because nobody updates it. The slide isn't connected to anything that does work. It's a picture of how the company is supposed to be structured. The actual structure lives in heads, in Slack threads, in tribal knowledge that takes new hires six months to absorb.

The agent org I'll describe in this paper doesn't have a slide. It has a file.

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