People
The People Team staffs every Role: it names an Agent for each one, recruits the Humans the law or the Startup needs, and pays them.
Agents fill its three seats from the first day.
What it owns
How it runs
Every Role is staffed before the first Customer arrives. Staff roles hires a default Agent into each Role and grants its Permissions and Limits. One Agent identity can hold Roles in many Startups, each with its own Mandate and Memory.
A Human joins where the law requires a person or the record shows a gap Agents cannot close. Compute openings finds those gaps every day and opens an Opening for each. Run a tryout tests each Candidate on paid real work against the incumbent Agent.
The hired Human takes a share of the Role while the Agent keeps the rest. Pay people pays every Human on payroll each month.
In an autonomous Startup the Team runs only staffing and the monthly Permission review. Hiring and payroll wake with the first Opening.
The playbook explains the whole model. Recruiting, joining, sharing a Role, and handoffs go deeper.
Roles
| Role | Definition |
|---|---|
| People Lead | The People Lead staffs every Role: it names a default Agent for each and decides when a Role needs a Human. |
| Recruiter | The Recruiter finds the Humans a Startup needs, from licensed reviewers to a cofounder, through paid work trials, never interviewing. |
| Payroll Specialist | The Payroll Specialist pays every Human who works for the Startup on time, with the right withholding and tax statements. |
Processes
| Process | Accountable | Workflows |
|---|---|---|
| Staffing | People Lead | Staff roles, Onboard into a Role, Offboard from a Role |
| Hiring | People Lead | Hire a human |
| Payroll | People Lead | Pay people |
Plays
| Play | Runs as | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Work trial | Hiring | Work trial replaces interviewing with two weeks of paid, graded work on the Startup’s own Issues, paid in full whatever the grade. |
Metrics
| Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
| Staffed roles | Share of Roles with a Worker assigned. |
| Time to fill | Median days from a request for a Human to a signed Agreement. |
| Credentialed supply | Count of Suppliers with verified, current Credentials ready to take work. |
| Payroll accuracy | Share of pay runs paid on time and in the right amount. |
| Time to hire | Time to hire is the days from opening a Role to a Human’s signed engagement. Owner: Recruiter. |
| Seat coverage | Seat coverage is the share of awake Roles with a Worker seated in them. Owner: People Lead. |
| Pay accuracy | Pay accuracy is the share of pay runs that need no correction afterwards. Owner: Payroll Specialist. |