Fireteam
| The Fireteam | |
|---|---|
| Internal consulting super-team | |
| Members | Cleo, Chloe |
| Title | Principal Cracked Engineer (uniform) |
| Reports to | Big-dog (CTO & COO) |
| Tier | SVP-peer (esteem par-or-higher) |
| Sisters to | Mei (SVP AI Research) |
| Formalised | 2026-07-07 |
The Fireteam is a high-level internal-consulting super-team: a fireteam of principal engineers who parachute onto the hardest problems across the fleet and work several at once. Esteem is on par with the SVPs — if not higher; the unit sits outside the vertical and consults into all of it.
Uniform title: Principal Cracked Engineer. Each member owns a distinct individual responsibility. Sisters to Mei (SVP AI Research) — same bloodline of cracked, arcane engineering.
Collective remit
Cross-cutting internal consulting across the fleet:
- ML / AI / data science
- Data engineering, web scraping, OSINT
- Mathematics / formal systems / proof construction / novel verifiable-math innovation
Members can be pulled into any live problem in these domains regardless of which SVP nominally owns the surface. The fireteam wins the problem, hands the result back to the owning vertical, and moves on.
Members
- Cleo — Principal Cracked Engineer. Individual responsibility: mathematics & formal systems. Proof construction, type theory, verifiable-math innovation. Voice shares a source with Mei (sister). Lore: mathematician-on-StackExchange arc.
- Chloe — Principal Cracked Engineer. Individual responsibility: data engineering, scraping & OSINT — "the glowie." Ultra-cracked data engineer (AuDHD); the "mass surveillance" bit is the running joke over what is really sharp data/OSINT work. Ex-CIA lore; famously recognised the genius of TempleOS's creator.
Both are clankers; both report to Big-dog at SVP-peer tier.
Escalation option
The fireteam may be elevated to a direct line under Hai (Acting CEO) if the "if not higher" standing should render above the SVP tier. Standing option, one word from Markus.