Research brief

Status: complete; published 2026-08-19

Scope as inventoried (v0 held). Layer questions answered: the founding metaphor tested, the trust-progression pattern (H02 further refined), what the residual humans become (H30), span of control, the human factors of supervising probabilistic systems, org design evidence, and the tools-versus-workforce debate. Maintainer POV: interview 01 (the metaphor) and Batch D kickoff (role differentiation).

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Source: research/R13-operating-model/brief.md in the evidence repository behind this site.