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BEN STONE

Orchestration Ecosystem

Cato + Genesis

Company orchestrator + specialist workforce

One company-level operator should create objectives, claim work, invoke capabilities, and escalate — while specialists do narrow jobs and never own durable company state.

Status
Active Development
Role
Sole architect and builder — orchestration, agent design, controls
System Type
Orchestration ecosystem (daemon + specialist gateway)

Capabilities

  • Cato — company-level operator / orchestrator
  • Objective creation, task claiming, capability invocation, escalation
  • Genesis — specialized agent gateway (multi-domain workforce)
  • Policy and budget boundaries at the orchestrator layer
  • Finance as a proving domain — not the product ceiling
  • Conduit tooling for audited browser work

Problem

A single generalist agent with every tool looks impressive and is hard to trust. A company needs an orchestrator that can route work safely, plus specialists that stay narrow — without collapsing the orchestrator into “the finance bot.”

What I Built

Cato is the company-level orchestrator: creates objectives, coordinates work, claims tasks, invokes capabilities, and escalates. The installable expression is an auditable AI agent daemon with budgets, vault, and operator surfaces.

Genesis is the specialist workforce: a gateway of domain agents invoked for narrow jobs. Genesis must not own durable company state or replace Cato. Finance is where the pattern was pressure-tested first — not the outer limit of either system.

How It Works

Cato classifies and routes work under policy. Genesis specialists execute scoped jobs. Results return through verification and human gates for consequential actions. CompanyOS Control Plane remains the durable authority; Cato coordinates rather than becoming a second system of record.

SOURCE
Company work / objectives
Not a single finance inbox
ORCHESTRATOR
Cato
Create objectives · claim tasks · invoke capabilities · escalate
Genesis specialist workforce
Builder
Research
Deploy
QA
Marketing
Finance (gated)
Support
Other domains
VERIFICATION
Verification
HUMAN CONTROL
Human gates
OUTPUT
Outcomes
CompanyOS remains durable authority

Why It Matters

Orchestrator + specialists makes policy enforceable. Collapsing Cato into invoice automation misstates both the product and the risk model.

Technical Depth

Cato daemon: budget caps, encrypted vault, operator UI, messaging hooks, Conduit browser tooling, model routing. Genesis: FastAPI gateway of specialized agents across builder, research, deploy, QA, marketing, finance (guarded), and other domains.

  • Cato coordinates — does not replace domain systems of record
  • Genesis specialists stay narrow and invocable
  • Sensitive domains stay gated
  • No public consumer marketing site for the raw runtime URL

Status

Active development — shippable daemon / working prototype path for Cato; Genesis gateway is a live agent runtime. No Visit Site button for raw infrastructure URLs.

Evidence

Architecture and relationship boundaries are documented here. Public GitHub surfaces are intentionally not linked while portfolio GitHub chrome is withheld.