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The Lexicon
Borrowed language carries borrowed assumptions. Waypost uses a complete cartographic vocabulary so every Station and Post operates inside the same map.
The company as a complete operating system. Not a collection of departments -- a mission with a crew, a map, and a destination.
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The full team. Structured, purposeful, mission-bound. A Crew is not a headcount -- it is a group of people who know where they are going and what they each hold.
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The human seat in Waypost. A person holds a Station. It defines their territory, their Mandate, their Post Roster, and their accountability to the Expedition.
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The AI agent seat in Waypost. A Post is commissioned, not hired. It holds a defined territory, operates inside Contracts, and Relays to a Station when it hits a trigger.
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The operating map of the company -- who holds what, where the boundaries are, and how Stations and Posts are positioned relative to each other.
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The company's fixed point. The destination that does not move regardless of market conditions, pivots, or quarterly pressure.
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The annual goal. What the Expedition is moving toward this year specifically. Translates True North into a twelve-month target.
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The quarterly priorities. Checkpoints on the route to the Horizon. A Waypoint is not a task list -- it is a defined position the Expedition must reach by the end of the quarter.
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A Station's individual quarterly priorities. Where Waypoints belong to the Expedition, Markers belong to the Station.
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A deliberate shift in strategic direction. Not drift -- a decision. Bearing Changes are recorded, owned, and communicated.
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The daily async check. Posts surface their status. Stations review exceptions only. If The Pulse requires a meeting, something in the system is not configured correctly.
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The weekly synchronous meeting. Short, directional, no status updates. One question drives it: what requires human judgment this week that is not already handled?
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The quarterly planning session. The Crew assesses its position, resets Waypoints, and reconfigures Posts. Where the Expedition earns the right to move fast for the next ninety days.
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The annual planning session. Full mission scope -- True North reaffirmed, The Horizon set, Crew structure reviewed, Post Roster evaluated.
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A problem, blocker, or issue. The neutral term for anything impeding the Expedition's movement. Naming something an Obstruction removes blame and focuses on clearing it.
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The act of surfacing an Obstruction. Any Station or Post can Flag. Flagging early is a professional obligation, not an admission of failure.
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The act of resolving an Obstruction. Action-forward. The question in every Bearing is not "who caused this" -- it is "who is Clearing this and by when."
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Unresolved Obstructions that have accumulated. Debris slows the Expedition. It builds when Flagging culture is weak or when Bearings do not produce Clearing decisions.
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The company's measurement system. The coordinate system everything is plotted against. If it is not on The Grid, it is not being managed -- it is being narrated.
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A single key metric. Your position on The Grid at any given moment. Coordinates are precise, binary, and owned by a named Station.
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Movement away from the intended Bearing without a decision to move. Not failure -- an undetected Bearing Change. Small Veers compound quietly.
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The performance review in Waypost. Not a judgment -- a navigation tool. Where is this Station relative to their Markers? Run on cadence, not only when something feels wrong.
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The act of deploying a Post. A Station commissions a Post by completing The Groundwork -- all four documents, all gates cleared. Formal and intentional.
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The act of deactivating a Post. A Station stands a Post down when its Directive is complete, its Territory is no longer needed, or its configuration has failed.
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When a Station takes direct control of a Post's execution. Used when a Relay has been triggered and the situation requires human judgment in real time.
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The escalation path from a Post to a Station. When a Post hits a condition on its Trigger List, it Relays -- passes the signal up and waits. A Relay is not a failure.
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The four-document protocol a Station must complete before Commissioning any Post. Scope, Contracts, Testing, Prompting. Posts that drift were built without it.
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The company's core values. Non-negotiable, non-flexible, non-situational. The Code is not aspirational -- it is behavioral. If it is not enforced, it is fiction.
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What it feels like to operate inside the Expedition. Climate is not a culture deck -- it is the lived experience of holding a Station.
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The non-negotiable behavioral standards of the Crew. Like True North, Fixed Points do not move. Enforced at every level, in every direction, without exception.
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Onboarding in Waypost. What you do with a map before you move. Not administrative paperwork -- the process of giving a new Station member enough map clarity to operate.
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The scope of decisions a Station can make without escalation. Decisions inside it move without approval. Decisions outside it get escalated.
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Any decision that falls outside a Station's Mandate. Requires escalation to the appropriate Course Decision authority. Signals ownership rather than dependence.
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Executive-level decisions that change the route of the Expedition. Market selection, capital allocation, Bearing Changes, Post Roster restructuring. Rare, recorded, and owned at the top.
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The living contract of what is in-scope and explicitly out-of-scope for a Post. Scope creep is not an AI flaw -- it is a missing scope.md.
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The frozen interface document. Any schema, behavior, or output format the Post must not change is recorded here. A behavior change without an update is a breach.
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The golden vector protocol. Deterministic input/output pairs that define what correct looks like. Gates are binary: pass or blocked.
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The prompt discipline standard. Every prompt must include: stack and context, task, constraints, output format, and acceptance criteria. No exceptions.
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The universal runtime standard every Post inherits. Pre-Flight, Execution Standard, Failure Protocol, Relay Triggers, Completion Standard. These are Fixed Points for agents.
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The default operating condition. All gates enforced. Full Groundwork required before any Post runs. The system governs the speed.
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A declared condition where gates convert from walls into speedbumps. Posts can execute outside Contracts. Every bypass generates an entry in the Debt Ledger.
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The emergency circuit breaker. Full human control. All Posts stood down. No Post output is trusted without direct human review.
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Every bypass in Pressure State generates a Debt entry. Debt is a calculated loan taken against the Expedition's future bandwidth. Every loan must be repaid.
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The required exit procedure for Override. A structured record the Expedition must produce before any Post is recommissioned or any gate is restored.
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Launching a Post with only scope.md and a Directive. The Post operates in permanent Pressure State -- every run generates Debt, no output ships without human review.
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Models do not feel ambiguity. A Relay is a deterministic tripwire coded by the Builder, not an emergent AI behavior. If the Builder does not program the condition, the Post will not stop.
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