Status: pre-launch. This page describes target design; this document does not establish a deployed service.
VMOSK-A — The Company-Organism Replicator Stack
Six layers of organizational information, each operating at a different cadence. Together they describe a company organism. Egregorotype is the sixth layer and the Vision/company field; it is not a seventh layer, authority actor, or property owned by an agent. Rosetta L1 is the indispensable ground/firewall outside the six-layer count. Rosetta, VMOSK-A, Porter function, Person context, and authority remain separate coordinates.
The Six Layers
| Layer | Name | Biology Analog | Timescale | What It Encodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Agents | Genotype | Per-cycle/configuration | The configured agent and capability DNA. Polymemetic leaves are alleles; caste + skills + niche form a genome. |
| K | KPIs / triggers | Epigenotype | Operational | The regulatory evidence and thresholds controlling which capabilities may express. |
| S | Strategies | Phenotype | Continuous | The enacted operating structure and what the organization actually does. |
| O | Objectives | Extended Phenotype | Quarterly | Products, artifacts, tools, institutions, and other effects extended into the world. |
| M | Mission | Memotype | Strategic | The transmissible mission, practices, and memes. |
| V | Vision | Egregorotype | Constitutional | The company identity and coordination field that emerges from the stack. It never signs. |
The Timescale Hierarchy
VMOSK letters retain different review cadences, but cadence is not rank and the replicator mapping is not a moral ladder. A fast-changing agent configuration may still require strict adoption gates; a durable Vision cannot authorize an otherwise unauthorized consequence.
V (decades) ───────────────────────────────────────────── slowest
M (years) ──────────────────────────────────
O (quarters) ─────────────────────
S (continuous) ────────────
K (monthly) ─────
A (per-cycle) ── fastest
If V changes as fast as A, the organism has no identity. If A changes as slowly as V, the organism cannot adapt. The timescale hierarchy IS the organism's stability.
The Biology Mapping
Genotype (A / Agents): the reusable capability leaves and explicit agent configuration. It is organizational DNA only; it never encodes human biology, identity, or worth.
Epigenotype (K / KPIs and triggers): evidence, thresholds, permissions, and environmental signals regulate which configured capabilities may express.
Phenotype (S / Strategies): the enacted operating body: current structure, routes, and behavior.
Extended Phenotype (O / Objectives): the products, artifacts, tools, institutions, and effects the operating body creates beyond itself.
Memotype (M / Mission): the mission and repeatable practices transmitted across participants and time.
Egregorotype (V / Vision): the company-level identity and coordination field emerging from the complete stack. It is observed and stewarded, never directly mutated, owned, or treated as a signer.
Mutation recombines capability leaves into a proposed agent genome. Selection
evaluates the whole configuration in its declared niche, never a person.
Outcome feedback may create a GenomeAdoptionProposal; the Weismann barrier
forbids automatic writeback to the active genome.
In the active public-DAV contract, layer-key signatures attest provenance or publication of layer artifacts only; they never authorize public-DAV consequence. Consequential authority remains a valid bound PRISM decision receipt from the signer(s) required by applicable law, the entity's governing instrument, or a valid competent mandate.
Layer-specific keys, where present, attest provenance or publication only:
- A: agent/configuration provenance;
- K: KPI and trigger publication;
- S: strategy artifact provenance;
- O: objective/product artifact provenance;
- M: mission publication;
- V: Vision publication;
- DAV aggregate keys: technical aggregation only, never emergent authority.
None of these keys authorizes a public-DAV consequence. Natural-person private, lawful Legal-Person, and public-DAV council authority remain distinct.
Fractal Application
VMOSK-A operates at every scale:
- The organism has VMOSK-A (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, KPIs, Agents - Rosetta L1-L7)
- Each organ has VMOSK-A (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, KPIs, Agents - Rosetta L1-L7)
- Each DAV has VMOSK-A (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, KPIs, Agents - Rosetta L1-L7)
- Each agent has VMOSK-A (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, KPIs, Agents - Rosetta L1-L7)
Same structure, same timescale hierarchy, every level. This is the fractal property.
Six layers, one indispensable ground, and a separate authority membrane. The company field emerges from the stack; no layer signs for it.
VMOSK Governance Loop
VMOSK-A must be reviewed as a live loop, not static documentation.
Review cadence
- Vision/Mission: slower strategic cadence
- Objectives/Strategies: quarterly or when environment shifts
- KPIs/Agents: operational cadence (weekly/daily depending on system)
Hard check
No KPI should survive if it contradicts mission-level commitments.