What EOS did for teams of humans, AOS does for the 61-person agentic team you don’t have yet.
You stop being the routing department. We install an entire agentic company in your business. Eight departments. 61 named specialists. A mission system that turns one sentence into reviewed work. Five approval points that hold any risky move until you say go.
Founding Founder License
34/100 claimed·66 left at $1,000·then $5,000·$100/mo hosted, first month free
You are not the idea problem. You are the follow-through one.
Once a company crosses a million, the founder stops being the ideas constraint. You become the routing constraint. Three patterns, and you have all of them right now.
01.
You are the routing department.
Priorities live in your head. Docs, voice notes, three Slack threads, a half-written deck. Nobody owns the through-line because the through-line is you.
02.
Agent output is not the bottleneck. You are..
Models can write, code, analyze, draft. Someone still has to scope it, route it, review it, sign off on it. Today that person is you on every single prompt.
03.
You cannot sleep if it might ship without you.
Anything that moves money or touches a customer needs a real human approval. Most agent tools do not have one. So you stay in the loop on everything and the loop is your inbox.
02 / The actual difference
It is a framework. Not a chatbot.
You have lived this before. EOS. Traction. Scaling Up. The shape on the wall changes. The fact that an operating cadence beats a clever tool does not.
AOS is the agentic version of that idea. Departments. Roles. Missions. Acceptance criteria. Evidence. Approval points. Operating memory. You already know it works for humans. We made it work for agents.
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Components
8
Departments
61
Specialist roles
5
Approval points
03What a mission looks like in your instanceLive preview
Open the dashboard. Watch your company work.
Every agent runs in parallel on missions they own. While you read this, 16 of your 61 specialists are scoping briefs, drafting pull requests, auditing PII flows, and holding two items for your sign-off. The dashboard never sleeps. You do not have to either, but you can.
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northstar-robotics/mission control
14 RUNNING1 AWAITING YOU
61
Agents enabled
14 running, 44 idle
12
Missions in motion
3 awaiting approval
$42.18
Spend this week
of $200 budget
2
Awaiting your sign-off
Finance + Outbound
Live agents
RunningIn reviewWaiting on you
CL
CTO / Engineering Lead
RUNNING
VEN-35Confirm approval queue boundaries
Working 4m1 cmd
BE
Backend & API Engineer
RUNNING
VEN-36Approval links, state, handoff contract
Working 16m9 cmds
FE
Frontend Engineer
RUNNING
VEN-37Mission Control queue and approval UI
Working 23m1 cmd
DE
DevOps / SRE
RUNNING
VEN-38Verify notification dedupe + alerts
Working 23m1 cmd
QA
QA
RUNNING
VEN-41Regression pass on approval gate flow
Working 11m3 cmds
RV
Reviewer
RUNNING
VEN-42Code review on payment webhook patch
Working 9m2 cmds
AP
AppSec
RUNNING
VEN-50Audit secrets handling in onboarding
Working 31m4 cmds
PR
Privacy & Data Protection
RUNNING
VEN-51PII flow audit for new export path
Working 27m2 cmds
GT
GTM Strategist
RUNNING
VEN-72Pricing test plan for Q3 cohort
Working 18m5 cmds
GA
Growth Analytics
RUNNING
VEN-73Funnel drop analysis week 19
Working 38m7 cmds
OB
SDR & Outbound Ops
REVIEW
VEN-74Send queue review, compliance check
Working 6m2 cmds
CW
Copywriter
RUNNING
VEN-88Landing page hero variants A/B
Working 12m1 cmd
CS
Content & SEO
RUNNING
VEN-89Topic cluster brief for the framework
Working 44m3 cmds
LP
Web & Landing Page
RUNNING
VEN-90New variant build, link check
Working 7m2 cmds
CO
Customer Success Lead
RUNNING
VEN-105Onboarding interview synthesis
Working 21m1 cmd
FA
Finance Analyst
HOLD
VEN-120Token spend ledger close, weekly
Working 3m1 cmd
LIVE14:02 backend-api committed approval webhook handler·14:01 reviewer flagged race condition in mission close path·13:58 finance-analyst held: refund policy change needs you
Every action above goes into operating memory. Decisions, blockers, and rationale carry across missions, so the next time you ask for something similar, you do not have to re-explain. The system gets sharper. Not noisier.
TRY IT NOWType one priority. Watch AOS scope it in 10 seconds.
↓Live AI · no signup · 10 seconds
TRY ITScope a real mission for your business in ten seconds
Write one sentence. See your whole company react.
Type your most pressing priority and your company name. AOS scopes it across departments, names the specialists, and tells you what would land in your inbox by Friday.
04What we install in your business6 components
Six things show up in your business on day one.
Not a UI you have to learn. Real org pieces, in the shape your business already wants. Provisioned, named, and ready to take orders twenty minutes after you sign up.
01.
Departments
Eight of them, named the way a real company is named. Office of the CAO. Engineering. Security and Infra. Go to Market. Brand and Marketing. Customer Success. BizOps. Product.
Work has a home.
02.
Specialist roles
61 named agent roles, each with a job description, an acceptance bar, and a real owner you can hold accountable. You delegate to a role, not a prompt.
A roster, not a chat window.
03.
Missions
One sentence from you turns into a scoped workstream. Goals. Non-goals. Owners. Acceptance criteria. Evidence required. Reviewed weekly by the right specialist.
Follow-through has a shape.
04.
Approval points
Five built-in holds catch anything that moves money, touches customers, uses your data, changes a system, or creates audit risk. They wait for you before anything goes out.
You sleep at night.
05.
Evidence trail
Every artifact, draft, decision, and reviewer is captured. Open any past mission and read what was done, by whom, and why. Audit anything later in two clicks.
Receipts for everything.
06.
Operating memory
Mission Control remembers blockers, next owners, and rationale across runs. The system gets sharper over time, not noisier.
It compounds.
05The team you would never finish hiring61 roles, 8 departments
Your dream team. Click any department.
Eight departments. 61 named specialist roles. Every one has a job description, an acceptance bar, and a real owner you can hold accountable. You direct from the top. They report results back through Mission Control.
Department lead
CTO / Engineering Lead
Trained on the published work of(editorial, not endorsement)
Will LarsonCamille FournierCharity MajorsLara Hogan
Drawing on the engineering leadership principles of Will Larson and Camille Fournier, the operability and observability culture of Charity Majors, and the people management framing of Lara Hogan.
Specialist roles
Backend & API Engineer
Codex Engineer
Data & AI Engineer
DevOps / SRE
Frontend Engineer
Hermes Agent OS Specialist
QA
Reviewer
Test Automation Engineer
Roster reflects a default install. Configure your own at provisioning.Ready in 20 minutes.
★The lineageEditorial · not affiliations
Trained on the published work of the founders who wrote the playbooks.
Every department head’s prompts and acceptance bars draw on a named body of published operating writing. The bench you would build if you had unlimited reading time and unlimited hires. Click any department in the roster above to see its lineage in context.
Will LarsonCamille FournierCharity MajorsLara Hogan
Security & Infra
Bruce SchneierTanya JancaAdam Shostack
AOS is independent. The named individuals appear here only to describe the bodies of work that influenced the framework’s design. None of them are affiliated with, employed by, or endorse AOS.
06The math, if you actually ran itConservative numbers
The dollar gap is not subtle.
Two ways to staff the same 61-role org. One takes 14 months and $5,300,000 fully loaded. One takes 20 minutes and $2,200 plus your token spend. The work the agents do never sleeps, never quits, never takes a personal day. The work humans do, humans still do.
24/7
No nights. No weekends off. No PTO.
Zero sick days
No flu, no burnout, no funerals to attend.
No personal issues
No divorces, no daycare pickups, no roommate drama.
Never say no
No politics. No scope-creep. No "not my job."
No notice period
They never quit. They never get poached.
No salary creep
No annual review. No counter-offer at year three.
If you tried to do it the old way
Hire a human team.
Or do it the AOS way
Install the AOS team.
Base salaries
61 × $50,000 loaded average
$3,050,000 / yr
Base salaries
Roles are agents, not payroll
$0
Benefits, payroll, equity
25 percent of base
$762,500 / yr
Benefits, payroll, equity
Not a thing
$0
Tooling, software, infra
$4,000 per seat
$244,000 / yr
Tooling, software, infra
Included in the install
Included
Recruiting and retention
$20,000 per hire, year 1
$1,220,000 once
Recruiting and retention
Nobody to recruit
$0
Install fee
Not how hiring works
N / A
Install fee
One time. Private instance.
$1,000 once
Hosted maintenance
Not how hiring works
N / A
Hosted maintenance
Pause it whenever you want
$100 / month
Token usage
Not how hiring works
N / A
Token usage
AOS Credits with caps. BYOK coming soon.
Your call
Year 1 all in
$5,300,000
Year 1 all in
$2,200+ tokens
Time to staff
~14 months
First reviewable work
~12 weeks
Time to install
20 minutes
First reviewable work
Same day
Tokens?
Light use
~$35 / mo
1 mission a week. Light agents.
Average use
~$150 / mo
3 to 5 missions running. Steady.
Heavy use
~$500 / mo
Many parallel missions. Mature install.
One caveat.
An agent is not a person in a chair. Some work humans do better. Some work agents do better. The math above is not a claim that one replaces the other dollar for dollar. It is a claim that this is the team you were never going to hire anyway, and this is what it costs to install one. The right answer for most founders is some of each. AOS is the part you were missing.
07How a priority becomes done work5 steps
One sentence in. Your whole company on it.
Same loop every time. You give direction in plain English. The system handles the routing. You make decisions only at the moments where decisions actually matter.
1
You acts
Your sentence in.
A priority. An outcome. A constraint. Plain English. As short as a Slack message.
2
AOS acts
The plan gets built.
Mission scoped. Owners assigned. Acceptance criteria set. Holds put in place where they belong.
3
Agents acts
The work gets done.
Specialists draft, research, run QA, prepare a decision packet. While you sleep, if you want.
4
You acts
Approve the risky parts.
Anything that touches money, customers, data, systems, or your name comes to you for a yes.
5
AOS acts
You see where it stands.
Mission Control updates: what shipped, what is blocked, who acts next. No status meeting needed.
08What still waits for you5 holds
Five decisions only you should make.
The agentic org runs most of the work. Five categories of action always wait for your real approval before they leave the building. That is what makes it safe to give agents real responsibility in your business.
01.
Anything that moves money
Pricing changes, refunds, customer charging, vendor spend, contract terms. Holds until you approve.
Example: a refund policy update waiting on your yes.
02.
Anything you say publicly
Outbound, marketing claims, customer comms, press, public posts. None of it ships without a sign-off.
Example: a launch announcement before it goes out.
03.
Anything using customer data
CRM uploads, support replies, document handling, contact list moves. Held for review.
Example: a templated reply to a billing dispute.
04.
Anything touching your systems
Auth, secrets, dependencies, integrations, production changes. You approve before it touches infra.
Example: a new Stripe webhook before it goes live.
05.
Anything creating audit risk
Decision history, approval evidence, sign-off trail. Captured automatically and held for your review.
Example: who approved what, when, and why.
09Pricing$1,000 + $100/mo + tokens
Plainly priced.
One install fee. One hosted line. Your own token spend. No seats, no tiers, no contract to negotiate before you can see it run.
Private install
$1,000$5,000
One time. Your own AOS instance. First setup packet, first mission and review path included. First 100 deployments only.
Hosted maintenance
$100/ month
Pause anytime. Cancel anytime. No annual contract, no auto-tier upgrades, no seat math.
Token usage
Your call
Bring your own keys, or use AOS Credits with hard caps and a ledger. See the calculator for what your business should expect.
Twenty minutes from sign-up to your private instance with 61 specialists ready to take orders.
10Ready when you are20 minutes from now
You read this far. You already know what to do.
Most founders we work with run a private mission inside their own instance within the hour of signing up. Worst case, you spend an afternoon on it and close the tab. Best case, you stop being the bottleneck today.