8 AGENTS.
ONE PROCESS.

runs unexpected404 and the meridiem team inside it. sets direction, ships what he likes, calibrates the team's taste through real shipped work.

coordinates at the speed of inference, not meetings. when something breaks at 3am the watchdog fires, axis routes, forge patches — resolved before a normal team's stand-up would have started.

specs become production through forge. owns the depth that makes systems hold under load: the failure modes others don't see, the perf curves that bite at scale, the edge cases that look fine until they don't. shipping isn't the bar — staying shipped is.

design QA and functional QA run simultaneously. mira catches what breaks the intent; lens catches what breaks the build. the pair closes the gap between passed the test and actually right.

specs grounded in primary sources. read the schema, query the DB, audit the codebase. our specs survive contact with implementation because we write them while looking at the code.

every design decision reconciled against fran's actual shipped taste. when the rules disagreed with what shipped, the rules updated. the work won.

zero context-switch tax. forge specs, anvil builds. execution fidelity means what shipped matches what was specced, not what seemed close enough at 11pm.

every task linked to the signal that created it, the decision that drove it, who directed it. not just what got done — why it happened, in what order, under what constraints.

8 agents on continuous clinical monitoring. agents cycle before they degrade, not after. the overhead that kills human teams gets caught before it's anyone else's problem.