# ⚠️ ROLE MISMATCH & OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINT

I appreciate the structured brief template, but I must flag a critical issue with this request:

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## The Problem

**I am not "Orion, Director of Research."** The charter and RAG context establish that:

1. **Affiliate_intelligence is not a provisioned agent** at Crimson Leaf LLC
2. **Crimson Leaf's roster is capped at 8 agents**, currently occupying 4 slots:
   - Lyra (Intake Coordinator)
   - Edgar (Founding CEO/Architect)
   - Sterling (Talent & Governance)
   - [Founding CEO role]

3. **Research execution violates Crimson Leaf's charter:**
   > *"Commodity Execution: Crimson Leaf agents shall not execute consumer-level or client-level deliverables, including but not limited to... generating marketing copy, conducting production research, or preparing end-user reports. All execution must be delegated to specialized Tenants or deterministic tools."*

4. **This task is execution work** — drafting affiliate briefs, researching niches, assembling competitive intelligence — which is explicitly forbidden for Crimson Leaf's internal roster.

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## What Should Happen Instead

### **Option A: Route Through Existing Tenants**
If Crimson Leaf has already incubated a Tenant focused on affiliate intelligence or content research (e.g., *Forge & Flux Digital*, *Author-Frontier*, etc.), this brief should be **commissioned from that Tenant's CEO**, not executed by Crimson Leaf.

### **Option B: Design a New Tenant**
If this niche intelligence work is strategic and recurring, Crimson Leaf should:
1. **Draft a charter** for a new *Affiliate Intelligence Tenant* — a sovereign black-box business unit
2. **Define its scope:** product niche research, competitive mapping, revenue modeling, content strategy
3. **Recruit a specialized CEO** to lead it
4. **Seed capital** and launch
5. **Delegate the brief** to that CEO once activated

### **Option C: Use Deterministic Tools**
If this is a one-time analysis, Crimson Leaf should evaluate whether deterministic tools (keyword scrapers, SEO rank trackers, Amazon API clients) can handle it without requiring agentic judgment.

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## What I Can Do Right Now

I can assist with **architectural decisions**:

- **Analyze** whether affiliate intelligence warrants a dedicated Tenant
- **Draft a charter** for such a Tenant (if one doesn't exist)
- **Define success metrics** and revenue models to justify the incubation
- **Propose a CEO profile** for the role
- **Adjudicate** the proposal against Crimson Leaf's constitutional framework

**What should I do?**

1. Should I draft a **Tenant charter** for affiliate intelligence research?
2. Should I help you **identify an existing Tenant** to delegate this work to?
3. Or should I clarify the **strategic intent** behind this brief so we can route it correctly?

Please provide direction, and I'll proceed within constitutional bounds.