Can I buy Orbyt Collective or run it at my company?

No. As of August 2026 Orbyt Collective runs in exactly one place, at Orbyt itself. It is not for sale and has never been run at another company. It is being separated into something another company could adopt.

What does one human in the loop mean?

It means one person makes every decision that matters and is accountable for it. At Orbyt this is a design principle rather than a safety disclaimer. The agents concentrate the founder's attention and never replace the decision.

Does the system ever refuse its own founder?

Yes. Orbyt's audit harness blocks the founder's own commits when they fail a guard, and there is no override flag. The promotion ladder applies the same rule to itself and does not advance while any of its own criteria are unmet.

How did the agents get their names?

Orbyt's founding agent officers were each asked to choose their own name in isolation, unable to see the others. Three independently chose the same name, Ledger. The collision is recorded as entry D-0016 in the company decision log.

Research Lab

Orbyt Collective.

Q: Does an AI actually run Orbyt?

An agent leadership team runs Orbyt today. It consists of officers with written charters, a decision log, a promotion ladder, an inspector general and a kill switch. One human stays in the loop and makes every decision that matters.

It runs the company.

The agent leadership team that runs Orbyt.

It runs Orbyt today.

This is not a proposal. It is the thing that was running while I wrote this page.

Officers with written charters. A decision log. A promotion ladder. An inspector general. A kill switch. I built it so one person could run three products. It works.

Orbyt Collective is that apparatus, pulled apart on purpose, so it could go around a company that is not mine. One human stays in the loop. That is not a safety disclaimer, it is the whole design.

Generated out of the repository, not typed by hand. Every number describes this company, running now. The decision log’s most recent entry is D-0037, dated August 11, 2026. And the records behind these tiles are published whole, raw JSON, CC BY 4.0: the Autonomy Ledger holds every run with its failures, the Decision Ledger every governance decision, the Failure Corpus every documented failure mode.

Officer seats, none of them people

Decisions logged

104

Guards in the harness

83.8%

Runs completed, failures counted

That it works is not the interesting part.

It refuses me.

The audit harness blocks my own commits when I am the one who is wrong, and there is no flag to wave it through.

The promotion ladder holds itself to the same standard. Right now it is holding at stage 1, because one of its own criteria is not met. Zero discards. It does not advance until they are.That sentence is read out of the ladder’s own state file every time this page is built, so it is not a thing I can forget to update.

It named itself. I did not.

Eight founding officers were asked to choose their own names. Each one in isolation, none of them able to see the others. Three came back with the same name. Ledger.

It is entry D-0016 in the decision log, because the log records what happened and not what I would have preferred. I did not pick that name. I published the collision.

The Machine.

Always watching, working and building.Officers. A harness. Governance.

Today it runs in exactly one place. Here. It is not for sale and it has never been run anywhere else. This page is dated, August 9, 2026, so you can hold me to both.

One company runs this way today. I am building it so that number does not stay at one.

See how it works.Meet the officers.

Common questions.

An agent leadership team runs this company today. Officers with written charters, a decision log, a promotion ladder, an inspector general and a kill switch. It is not a proposal. It was running while this page was being written.

Not today. It runs in exactly one place, here. It is not for sale, and it has never been run anywhere else. It is being pulled apart on purpose so that it could one day go around a company that is not this one.

One person makes every decision that matters and is accountable for it. That is not a safety disclaimer added afterwards. It is the whole design. The agents concentrate his attention. They never replace the call.

Yes. The audit harness blocks the founder's own commits when he is the one who is wrong, and there is no flag to wave it through. The promotion ladder holds itself to the same standard and will not advance while any of its own criteria are unmet.

The founding officers were each asked to choose their own name, in isolation, none of them able to see the others. Three came back with the same name. Ledger. Nobody designed that, and it is recorded as entry D-0016 in the decision log.