Cadence Standard · Agent Operating Blueprint

The Agent-Ready Company

A blueprint for how AI agents run a real business — one Chief agent, a named lead for every function, and the task agents beneath them. Generic by design; drop your own operation under Operations.

◇ YOU — founder / team

Ada · Chief Agent

Chief of Staff — your single point of contact

Give it a plain-language task → it routes to the right function lead → merges their answers back to you.

▸ Brief Ada Opus · orchestrator

Function Leads

Tap a lead to collapse its team · tap ＋ Warehousing under Operations to open a vertical

Operations ▸ Vertical

Warehousing

The example vertical built under Operations — same shape, its own specialist task agents.

Stock & Inventory

Live counts, low-stock & discrepancy alerts

Pick-Path / Slotting

Optimises pick routes & where SKUs live

Goods-In

Books deliveries, checks POs, flags shortages

Dispatch & Labels

Picks courier, prints labels, tracks parcels

Returns

Triages RMAs, restocks, spots return patterns

Swap Warehousing for Manufacturing, Field Service, Hospitality, Clinic or any operation — the Operations lead just gets a different specialist team beneath it.

Legend

The stack behind each agent

Nothing exotic — off-the-shelf models + automation, wired per function. This is the key for the whole blueprint.

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Human

Owner or employee — briefs a lead, reviews & approves outputs. Always in the loop.

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Chief agent · Opus

Orchestrator. Routes tasks to leads, merges answers. Your one front door.

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Function lead · Sonnet

Owns a domain, holds its knowledge base, delegates to its task agents.

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Task agent

One job, done well — draft this, update that, chase this. Cheap + fast.

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Automation

Make / n8n — the triggers, schedules and hand-offs that run without you.

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Voice

Call a lead and talk to it like a colleague.

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Tools

CRM, inbox, docs, spreadsheets, data — connected via MCP / APIs.

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Knowledge base

Each function's private, gated "brain" — clean data = useful agents.

How people use it: staff brief a function lead by chat or voice for their day-to-day. Execs query any lead's brain over Slack / WhatsApp ("how many new leads this week?"). Leads pass context sideways so Sales knows what Marketing just shipped.