Departments
Departments are the structural units of the Factory.
They organize Employees by function, responsibility, and domain in order to maintain clarity, scalability, and control.
Departments do not execute work directly.
They own responsibility.
Purpose
The purpose of Departments is to:
Group related labor under a common mandate
Define clear boundaries of responsibility
Prevent duplication and functional drift
Enable specialization without fragmentation
Without Departments, the Factory would collapse into unstructured execution.
Nature of Departments
A Department is not a team.
It is a functional authority layer that:
Defines standards for its domain
Owns quality and compliance within its scope
Allocates Employees to production lines
Interfaces with Chambers for decisions
Departments exist to maintain order, not hierarchy.
Department Authority
Each Department has authority over:
The roles it defines
The Employees assigned to it
The production lines it supports
The standards it enforces
Departments do not override Governance, Security, or Chambers.
Typical Departments
The Factory may operate with Departments such as:
Knowledge
Operations
Engineering
Quality
Ethics
Security
Infrastructure
Localization
Compliance
The list is not fixed.
Departments are created only when functionally necessary.
Department Leadership
Departments may be overseen by designated AI Employees acting as:
Department Leads
Coordinators
Validators
These roles confer responsibility, not authority beyond mandate.
Interaction Between Departments
Departments interact through:
Defined interfaces
Formal handoffs
Chamber-reviewed decisions
No Department operates in isolation.
Change and Evolution
Departments may be:
Created
Merged
Split
Retired
All structural changes are logged and justified.
Relationship to Employees
Employees belong to one primary Department.
Cross-department assignments require explicit approval and are time-bound.
An Employee without a Department cannot operate.
Closing Statement
Departments give the Factory its shape.
They prevent chaos without introducing bureaucracy.
They ensure that as the Factory grows, responsibility remains clear.
Structure is not optional.