Named systems
Frameworks
SENSE, STACK, CHORUS, RESILIENT, BooksOS, and DOWNSTREAM: the named operating systems from Systems for the Strategic Self, with definitions, steps, and the book each one lives in.
Worked through
AI Agents for Startup Strategy
SENSE is a five-move strategic intelligence layer: Scan, Evaluate, Navigate, Simulate, Execute. It turns agent work from a productivity shortcut into a sourced claim that changes a watchlist, an assumption register, or a Monday decision.
STACKThe Agentic Codebase
STACK is a five-layer architecture for repositories where humans and agents share work: Structure, Toolchain, Agent configuration, Connection, Knowledge and quality. The agent OS is versioned like the app.
CHORUSThe Multi-Agent Organization
CHORUS is a six-skill coordination protocol for teams of 2 to 15 people who share work with specialised AI workers: Charter, Handoff, Orchestrate, Review, Update, Sync. Org charts name reporting lines. CHORUS names coordination lines.
RESILIENTThe Psychology of Founder Resilience
RESILIENT is nine trainable capacities for founder pressure: reappraisal, emotional granularity, somatic regulation, identity flexibility, learning orientation, interpersonal support, executive function, narrative integration, and titrated exposure. Resilience is infrastructure, not a personality trait.
BooksOSThe Agentic Author
BooksOS is a gated production system for serious nonfiction: Brief, Bible, Map, Draft, Edit, Package, Launch. Agents do specialist work inside the gates. Judgment, voice, and accountability stay human.
DOWNSTREAMThe Downstream Effects
DOWNSTREAM is an operational protocol for consequences that arrive later, on a different surface, with no owner in the room: Detect, Observe, Weigh, Navigate, Stream effects, Trace, Review, Effects on stakeholders, Assess systemic risk, Mitigate. It is an operating heuristic, not a validated risk instrument.
Glossary
These names do not have a standalone page yet. They belong to titles still in production. The one-liner lives here so the word has somewhere to point.
The Calibrated Mind
Match the strength of a judgment to the strength of the evidence, then update when the facts move.
CASCADEThe Second-Order Thinker
Personal cognitive companion to DOWNSTREAM: trace the next bend before you commit, in the meeting, in your own head.
COMMANDThe Crisis Command
Crisis as a protocol with named triggers and an escalation path, not as a personality that appears under load.
GRAINThe RAG Engineer
Gather, Rank, Assemble, Inspect, Navigate: the retrieval loop that keeps an answer tied to a chunk you can name.
CITATIONThe Findability Engine
Make a page worth citing: discoverable, attributed, answer-shaped, evidenced, and actually used.
TRUSTMarketing Without Manipulation
Sell without dark patterns. The page tells the same story the product will keep.
LEDGERThe Cognitive Budget
Treat attention and decision quality as a budget with a closing balance, not a mood.