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Founder
Defines the objective, constraints, priorities and approval boundaries. Decides where review is required.
- State the outcome that matters
- Set constraints and priorities
- Decide where review is required
PRODUCT / ODIN
ODIN — Your AI CXO.
ODIN coordinates the research, product work, operations and decisions involved in building a business, so you can focus on the outcomes that matter.
POSITIONING
Delegate outcomes, not tasks.
Most AI tools are chatbots or task automators. ODIN is different — it's an AI CXO that owns the end-to-end work of building and operating a company. You define the objective, constraints and approval boundaries. ODIN constructs the plan, assigns work to persistent workers, manages dependencies, verifies deliverables, and escalates only when authority is exceeded.
The result: you stay focused on the strategic decisions that require your judgment, while ODIN handles the coordination, execution and verification that consumes most of a founder's time.
HOW IT WORKS
From objective to operating company.
ODIN operates across three layers, each with clear boundaries:
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ODIN
Maintains the plan, initiative state, dependencies, permissions and verification criteria.
- Keep initiative context together
- Coordinate dependencies and decisions
- Check deliverables against agreed criteria
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Execution
Specialist workers perform authorised work using available tools and environments.
- Receive scoped assignments
- Return work with evidence
- Stop when blocked or outside authority
PRODUCT / ODIN
ODIN — Your AI CXO.
ODIN coordinates the research, product work, operations and decisions involved in building a business, so founders can focus on the outcomes that matter.
DELEGATE OUTCOMES, NOT TASKS.
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Overview
Company-wide execution view showing active initiatives, running operations, attention items, and recent evidence.
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Initiatives
Deep-dive into a single initiative with tabs for Overview, Plan, Operations, Artifacts, Decisions, and Activity.
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Execution Plan
Dependency-aware execution graph with inspectable workstreams showing prerequisites, outputs, and downstream dependents.
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Operations
Real-time view of all running, waiting, and blocked work across the company with decision queues.
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Artifacts
First-class deliverables with verification history, acceptance criteria, and originating execution runs.
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Decisions
Pending and resolved founder decisions with approval flow, context, and state propagation.
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Verification
Acceptance criteria evaluated by deterministic checks, model-assisted assessments, and human review.
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Failure & Recovery
Incident analysis with downstream impact and four recovery strategies that preserve completed work.
CAPABILITIES
Capabilities ODIN coordinates.
Each capability is a bundle of workstreams, approval gates and verification criteria.
Research & Strategy
Market assessment with documented assumptions.
Workstreams: Market research · Evidence review · Opportunity comparison
Approval: Founder approves target customer and any external research commitment.
Product
Turn requirements into a product specification.
Workstreams: Requirements · Scope and exclusions · Acceptance criteria
Approval: Founder reviews scope changes and the criteria used to accept the deliverable.
Engineering
Coordinate implementation, testing and technical review.
Workstreams: Technical preparation · Implementation planning · Verification
Approval: Consequential technical changes and external commitments remain within explicit policy.
Marketing & Growth
Prepare positioning and an acquisition experiment.
Workstreams: Positioning · Channel hypothesis · Experiment review
Approval: External publication and paid activity require the configured approval boundary.
Sales & CX
Organise customer enquiries, product information and follow-up.
Workstreams: Product information · Enquiry handling · Follow-up plan
Approval: External messages and commitments require approval where policy says so.
Operations
Coordinate recurring business processes and their dependencies.
Workstreams: Process definition · Ownership · Exception review
Approval: Changes to a recurring process are reviewed before they affect external parties.
Finance & Planning
Organise assumptions, budgets and scenarios for review.
Workstreams: Assumption register · Scenario comparison · Decision brief
Approval: Financial commitments and consequential spend require explicit approval.
VALHALLA PROTOCOL / ODIN
See the prototype.
Review the ODIN screens above, or explore the wider Valhalla Protocol work.