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The agentic operating system for hybrid companies.

Automated operating system for humans + AI agents.

Old operating systems were designed before AI and agents. ROST organizes humans, agents, and shared knowledge into a visible, controllable, and automated surface.

For founders, COOs, and operations leaders at 10–500-person companies putting AI agents to work — starting with the first governed agent seat.

30 min

to a live graph

3 seat types

human, agent, hybrid

100%

tool calls audited

An AP Clerk agent's risky payment is held and escalated to Controller Jane Mercer.

Live company operations

The gap

Your operating system can't see your agents.

AI agents are entering companies faster than any management system can govern them. The tools you run on were designed before agents existed — so work moves, but accountability, knowledge, and oversight do not.

0
owners by default

Agents outrun governance

Agents already act across Slack, GitHub, billing, and scripts — with no seat, no boundary, and no audit trail. Activity grows faster than anyone can govern it.

5+
places to look

Knowledge is scattered

Decisions live in meetings, context lives in docs, chats, and SOPs. Every new hire — and every agent — starts blind to what the company already knows.

7 days
to surface an issue

Operations run on memory

Scorecards are only as fresh as the admin feeding them, and Tuesday's problem waits for next week's meeting. The loop stays open until something breaks.

Why this wins

Not meeting-software with smarter notes. A control layer for AI work.

The competitive gap is clear: legacy operating tools track people, and horizontal work tools add generic agents. ROST gives every agent a place in the company, a boundary, and a reporting line.

Typical operating softwareROST
Tracks human meetingsRuns human, agent, and hybrid seats
Roles live as notesCharters compile into agent context and permissions
Scorecards are updated by peopleSignal streams from work and systems
Issues wait for the weekly meetingAgents file Friction when the measurable breaks
AI summarizes activityAgents work inside charter and escalate beyond it

The operating system

Run a company of humans and AI agents on one accountable system.

ROST turns the company into a live operating system. Every function is a Seat with a Charter. Goals Cascade from the Compass; Signal streams back; agents file Friction and escalate to a human Steward the moment they pass a boundary. The fundamentals that already run good companies — now legible to humans and agents alike.

CompassResponsibility GraphChartersSignalFrictionSyncCompany Brain

Responsibility Graph

Find the real owner in seconds.

Loose work — a task, an agent run, a Slack thread — snaps to a Seat, a Charter, and a human Steward. Accountability stops being tribal knowledge.

An unowned payment exception snaps to the AP Clerk seat under Steward Jane Mercer.

Stock agents · Stewards

Put every agent inside a Charter.

Add an agent from the library, name a human Steward, and it becomes a governed seat — purpose, boundaries, and approval rules — not a loose automation.

Adding the AP Clerk agent under Controller Jane Mercer with a Charter approval rule.

Friction · escalation

Catch the issue before it becomes cleanup.

The moment an agent reaches a Charter boundary, it holds the action, files Friction with evidence, and escalates to the accountable human.

AP Clerk finds a changed vendor bank detail, holds payment, files Friction, escalates.

Compass · Cascade

Humans and agents, aligned to company and role goals.

Every measurable rolls up to the goals it serves. A caught payment traces straight to the cash-control goal and the margin it protects.

A held payment traces up the cascade to the gross-margin goal it protects.

Sync Brief

Start every Sync already briefed.

Signal, Friction, and agent activity compile into the Sync Brief before the meeting. Humans spend the hour deciding, not reconstructing status.

The Sync Brief compiles slipped goals and an escalation; a human decides and assigns follow-up.

Company Brain · Memory

What the company knows becomes executable.

The hardest part of deploying AI is that domain knowledge is scattered across people, agents, meetings, chats, and SOPs. ROST unifies it into a queryable Company Brain — context in, cited answers out — so every human and agent works from the same source of truth.

A central Company Brain ingests knowledge from people, agents, notes, chats, and SOPs; an agent queries it and gets a cited Sync decision attached to its Charter.

The hybrid org chart

Agents are not add-ons. They are accountable seats.

ROST keeps the old management insight that seats own work, then extends it to the company you are actually building: humans, agents, and hybrid teams on one Responsibility Graph.

Human seats

Judgment, relationships, accountability.

Agent seats

Scheduled work, measurable output, explicit authority.

Hybrid seats

Human owner with agent staff and one queue.

Controller

Jane M.

JM

Cash, close, approvals, and agent stewardship.

Close3d
Cash11mo

AP Clerk

AP-01

A

Match invoices, draft payments, hold exceptions.

Invoices128
Held3

Revenue Ops

Marco R.

MR

Forecast hygiene with agent research support.

Pipeline3.2M
Slipped14%
AC

AP Clerk Charter

Steward: Jane M. · version 3

escalation active

Match invoice to approved PO

Clean 3-way match below threshold

Autonomous

Schedule payment

Above $2,500 to Jane M.

Approval required

Changed vendor bank details

Always held with evidence

Must escalate

Charters, not prompts

The job description becomes the runtime boundary.

A Charter defines purpose, responsibilities, measurables, decision authority, and the tool manifest. The same artifact orients humans, powers agents, and tells the system when to stop.

No orphan agents

Every agent seat resolves to a human Steward.

Tool calls guarded

Tool access is checked server-side and written to the audit log.

Secrets stay vault refs

Agents receive scoped capability, not raw credentials.

Humans decide

Durable changes route through draft and confirmation.

Product demo

Open a real graph, then walk the operating loop.

Explore Meridian Logistics as a read-only workspace with live liveness markers, replayed escalations, Charters, Signal, Friction, and Sync.

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Start with the structure

Give every agent a seat, a Charter, and a Steward.

Upload your org chart or start function-first. ROST drafts the live operating system and shows where agents can safely work.