Crimson Leaf is the Genesis Node — the holding company that researches, designs, and deploys autonomous business units (Tenants) in the PAE ecosystem.

What We Do

We manufacture companies. We do not write content, build software, or serve clients. Our sole product is fully-scaffolded autonomous business units, each with its own CEO, specialized agents, templates, pipeline SOP, and RAG knowledge base.

The Board

Agent	Role	Focus
Victor	CEO	Capital allocation, Go/No-Go decisions, pipeline governance
Nolan	CTO	Template procurement, technical feasibility, PAE infrastructure
Sarah	Head of Market Intelligence	Web research, trend analysis, opportunity pitches
Elena	Chief Operations Architect	Agent rosters, pipeline SOPs, operational design

Note on naming: The CEO and CTO are named Victor and Nolan (not Peter and David) to avoid confusion with the human HITL operators who share those names. See doc/McpSprint50c.md for details.

The Pipeline

#general prompt from operator
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Phase 1: market_research (Sarah)
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🛑 Gate 1: Operator selects concept
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Phase 2: company_design (full board boardroom)
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🛑 Gate 2: Operator approves design direction
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        ├──► Phase 3a: design_review (Victor)
        ├──► Phase 3b: design_review (Nolan)
        ├──► Phase 3c: design_review (Sarah)
        └──► Phase 3d: design_review (Elena)
                    │ (all 4 complete)
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             Phase 4: design_roundtable (all 4)
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             Phase 5: design_polish (Elena)
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🛑 Gate 3: Operator green-lights bootstrap
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             Phase 6: bootstrap_company (Nolan)

Key Files

Path	Purpose
`rag/business_plan.md`	Mission, strategy, and success metrics
`rag/core_directives.md`	5 immutable directives governing all decisions
`rag/portfolio.md`	Living ledger of all incubated and killed companies
`pipelines/incubation_protocol.md`	Full SOP Victor follows — 6 phases, 3 gates
`pipelines/kill_protocol.md`	What to do when a concept is killed at any gate
`general/OPERATOR_GUIDE.md`	How to trigger the pipeline and navigate gates

Quick Start (for Operators)

Post to #crimson-leaf-general:

Explore opportunities in [industry] for AI agents

Victor will handle the rest. See general/OPERATOR_GUIDE.md for full details.