One role
The starting size. One role with its own queue, owned rules, and a report on a schedule for the work in its scope. The most direct way to prove the method before drawing a bigger circle.
Solo is how one node gets installed. Everything you need to do it yourself is free below, with the playbook that teaches the seven capabilities and the canvas you fill in. When you want judgment, pace, and certification, we coach the install, and your node graduates when it runs on real work without us.
Both are complete. Alone, someone inside your organization who knows the playbook well plays the coach's part, and your sponsor signs graduation. With us, the pace changes and certification is added. The method does not change.
Short answers to what people ask first, including what Solo costs and whether an AI agent can run a node, are on one page. Common questions →
What changed in each version of the playbook and the canvas, and what it means for a node you already run, is on one page. What changed →
Draw the circle around the work, and the size follows. If one person handles the problems and decisions about that work and its data, the node is a Role node. If a team shares them, the node is a Team node and the Coached Install is scoped to the circle. A whole department with nodes inside it is a Department node. The seven capabilities are the same at every size.
The starting size. One role with its own queue, owned rules, and a report on a schedule for the work in its scope. The most direct way to prove the method before drawing a bigger circle.
Under one operator, the team has one queue for its work and the problems and decisions about it, owned rules over it, a rhythm for choosing what to fix, and a view of its own state.
The department head's node is the orchestrator. Each team inside is a node that escalates up to it. The same method at two levels.
The Node Canvas filled in for a Role node whose operator is an AI agent, with its rules, escalation log, and graduation page.
Setup fills the canvas. Supervision runs live on real cases and ends when five of them have closed against their definitions of done. Your operator spends about four hours a week. Graduation is seven proofs witnessed on real work, signed by your sponsor. Proven, not trained.
Seven questions give you your Readiness Shape, each capability rated absent, emerging, or functioning, and a Shape Report that says which node size to start with.