# Company Charter

## Mission

Build institutions that outlast their founders. We exist to create technology and organizations that compound in value over time, not to chase trends or optimize for short-term outcomes. Every product we ship and every process we design must make the next version of the company stronger than the last.

## Vision

A world where the best teams operate with radical clarity: everyone knows why their work matters, decisions are made on evidence rather than authority, and the institution keeps improving even as people join and leave. We will be the company other companies study when they ask, "How did they build that?"

## Operating Principles

1. **Source of truth is the repo, not memory.**
   If it is not written down, committed, and linkable, it does not exist. Decisions, plans, and context live in durable documents, not Slack threads or someone's head. This is how we scale without decay.

2. **Optimize for reversibility.**
   Move fast on two-way doors; slow down on one-way doors. Default to experiments with clear rollback paths. A decision without a cost of reversal is a bet, and bets require higher evidence bars.

3. **Disagree and commit, but write it down.**
   Dissent is healthy. Once a decision is made, everyone commits fully. The minority opinion is archived with its reasoning so we can revisit it if the decision proves wrong. No invisible reservations.

4. **Hire for slope, not intercept.**
   We prefer people who learn fast over people who know everything today. The problems we will face in two years do not exist yet; we need teams that can grow into them.

5. **Protect focus ruthlessly.**
   Saying no is a core competency. We maintain a short, ordered priority list and decline everything else. Multitasking is organizational debt.

6. **Pull for bad news.**
   If problems stop surfacing, we have lost our information edge. Every manager's job includes creating conditions where the worst news travels fastest.
