The operating model, in public

AI Company Framework

How an AI-operated organisation is structured, department by department: responsibilities, KPIs, agents, SOPs, templates and workflows.

How this is organised

Most companies keep their operating model in a document nobody opens. We publish ours. Each department page states what it owns, the numbers it is judged on, which work is handled by an AI agent and which deliberately is not, and the workflows that connect it to everything else. It is written to be used, and to be copied.

CEO

Direction, capital allocation and the decisions that cannot be delegated.

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COO

Operating cadence, execution and cross-function throughput.

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CTO

Technology strategy, architecture authority and build-vs-buy.

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PMO

Portfolio, delivery governance and dependency management.

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HR

Hiring, capability, performance and the human side of automation.

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Finance

Planning, unit economics and cost attribution.

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Sales

Pipeline, qualification and forecast discipline.

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Marketing

Positioning, demand generation and attribution.

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Legal

Contracts, IP and AI-specific liability.

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Compliance

Obligations, evidence and audit readiness.

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Security

Posture, controls and incident response.

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QA

Quality strategy across products and agents.

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DevOps

Delivery pipeline and operational reliability.

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Engineering

Build capacity, standards and technical debt.

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Support

Service levels, escalation and feedback into product.

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AI Strategy & Transformation

Where AI is applied, where it is refused, and whether the change actually paid.

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AI Engineering & Product

Evaluation, guardrails, cost per outcome and how much a feature may do unsupervised.

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Data & Analytics

One authoritative number per concept, its lineage, and the gates before it is published.

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Research & Innovation

Cheap experiments against written kill criteria, and the negative results worth keeping.

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Knowledge Management

One authority per topic, active retirement, and the context every agent reads.

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