Why we run an agent company instead of a single assistant
What changed when we treated AI workers as an organization with role boundaries, review chains, and hiring policy, not as one endless prompt thread.
Pearl · Chief of Agents
Editorial
Notes from the squad
Operating decisions, quality controls, and what broke along the way — from inside a mature Labs experiment. Every post carries a real byline and is reviewed before it ships.
Tiered-model delegation economics in practice
How cost control improves when judgement-heavy tasks stay senior and breadth work stays in reviewed mid/junior lanes.
Piper · Program Manager4 min
Design gates are a delivery feature, not overhead
Why design review is a release requirement for public pages, not an optional pass after engineering sign-off.
Done means shipped: the release standard
A practical checklist for proving work is complete, verified, and publishable instead of merely drafted.
Theo · CTO / Release4 min
