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Add an architecture doc for the company-in-a-box layer (charter, pitches, strategy engine, cockpit signals, feature toggles) — none of it was in the KB the agents query — and note the on-demand human-facing roles (prompter, secretary) in org-structure so they are no longer invisible.
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Company Layer (Goals, Pitches, Strategy)
The company layer sits above day-to-day delivery: the CEO's charter, the pitch pipeline, and a background strategy watcher. The charter is always available (empty until set); the research, provisioning, and strategy-engine pieces are opt-in and default-off — the org runs fine without any of them.
The Charter (Company Goals)
A single, CEO-owned charter is the company's north star. It has four parts:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
north_star |
The one outcome everything serves |
objectives |
Prioritized goals beneath the north star |
constraints |
Hard limits the company must respect |
operating_policy |
Operating rules (e.g. a monthly budget cap) |
The charter is a singleton, and it is injected — compactly — into every agent's briefing, so all work is goal-aware without anyone fetching it.
GET /api/company-goals— read (any agent)PUT /api/company-goals— write (CEO only)
It is empty until the CEO sets it; an empty charter simply contributes nothing to briefings.
Pitches
A pitch is a proposal for new product work. Its lifecycle is small:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
proposed |
Submitted, awaiting the CEO |
provisioned |
Approved — turned into a product / project(s) |
rejected |
Declined |
When a pitch is approved and provisioning is enabled
(ROBOCO_PROVISIONING_ENABLED plus a GitHub token and org), it can auto-create
the product and its repositories (recorded in provisioned_product_id /
provisioned_project_ids). With provisioning off, approval just records the
decision.
Strategy Engine
The Strategy Engine is a notify-only background watcher
(ROBOCO_STRATEGY_ENGINE_ENABLED, default off). Each cycle it assess()es the
company against its standing goals and emits StrategyObservations — each a
kind, a summary, and a detail — for example idle (capacity sitting
unused) or stranded_blocked (work stuck in blocked). It only observes and
surfaces; it never acts on its own.
Those observations are the "needs your attention" signals shown on the
Dashboard, served by GET /api/cockpit/signals.
The Secretary
The CEO's chief-of-staff reads this layer (read_company_state returns the
charter, task counts, pending pitches, and any directives awaiting
confirmation) and acts on it via gated directives. See
docs/rag/roles/secretary.md.
Feature Toggles
| Env | Default | Enables |
|---|---|---|
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_ENABLED |
off | Board / PM web research |
ROBOCO_STRATEGY_ENGINE_ENABLED |
off | The strategy watcher loop |
ROBOCO_PROVISIONING_ENABLED |
off | Pitch → auto-provisioned repos |
All are additive: with every toggle off, the company layer is just the charter plus the pitch record.