Startup
The shape of a six-person seed-stage company where most of the work is delegated to agents. Founders carry product direction, three engineers carry the code humans still need to touch, and a fleet of named agents handles the rest.
The two founders. Everything that is not yet someone else's job is theirs.
Sells, fundraises, defends the roadmap, decides what not to build. Also pulls a weekly customer-call review through the brief agent.
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Writes the first version of anything risky. Reviews everything the agents wrote yesterday. Owns the architecture decisions the agents are not yet trusted to make.
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Three humans who would have been ten in a 2020-shape company. Each one runs a small named-agent team.
Staff
Cuts the load-bearing code, hires the next two, sets the test bar. Pairs with the Senior Code Reviewer construct on every non-trivial PR.
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Senior
Owns the customer-facing surface. Ships features end-to-end, instruments them, talks to users.
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Not a department yet. The CEO covers it; the construct catches what they miss.
Writes specs, prioritizes the backlog, runs sprint planning. In a seed-stage company this role is held by the CEO and offloaded to constructs.
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Contracted out for v0, agent-led after.
Brand voice, landing page, and product UI critique. Outsourced before launch; agent-assisted after.
Founder-led with a thick agent backbone. Outbound, content, and SEO all run on schedule before anyone touches them.
Writes the SEO content with Rank, runs cold outbound with the SDR agent, drafts launch tweets with the content creator. Reviews everything before it goes out.
Nobody. The agents handle invoicing, expenses, and meeting notes. Accountant once a quarter.
Invoicing, expense triage, meeting summarization, calendar coordination. All async, all overnight.
Senior
Owns deploys, observability, secrets, and the agent fleet itself. The first person paged when something breaks at 2am.