The single front door. Every empire document lives here. Read in 30 seconds, click through in 5 minutes, get the full picture in 30 minutes.
Phase: 0 — Foundations · Gate progress: 0 of 7 fired MRR: R0 · Active concierge clients: 0 (R6k Office Brain client awaiting onboarding) Captain’s brands on Flow Core: 0 of 10 Day job: active, full-time Indemnity insurance: not yet bound · Lawyer engagement: not yet signed Next milestone: Phase 0 scaffolding (Flow Core skeleton, lawyer brief, indemnity quotes)
This banner refreshes weekly via Niki automation once Phase 0 starts.
What we’re building. Three engines (back-office + content + agent runtime) on the VPS. Three-layer agent architecture (Foundation + Vertical Specialists + Tenant Brain). Flow as a customer-facing product. Vertical brands as front doors. Per-task LLM routing. Markdown brains.
Read this first if you’re new to the empire. ~2,400 words after the v3.4 trim pass.
How Edge serves as the discovery engine for the empire. The 7 gates with measurable triggers. Kill triggers (when to pause). 5 de-risk experiments. The Meta-Brain that captures patterns across tenants and propagates them into Med/Terra/Realty designs.
Read this second to understand the sequencing.
The hybrid execution plan. 9 phases from today to first paying Med tenant (~Q1 2028). Engineering plan (Flow Core + LLM Router + Brain Provisioner). Captain/Niki/agents allocation. The 13-week first-90-days playbook.
Read this third to know what happens this week.
42 specialist agents in 5 teams (Clinical Workflow, Billing & Claims, Patient Lifecycle, Compliance & Records, Practice Operations). The moat: rejection auto-fix recovers R20-40k/month previously written off. Pricing: R25-35k/mo concierge.
Read this fourth if you want to see what a vertical looks like in detail.
16 locked decisions with rationale + source documents. 6 pending decisions awaiting Captain’s call. Re-read triggers (annual, quarterly, event-driven). Single source of truth for “what did we decide and why.”
Read this when you’re trying to remember why something is the way it is — or in 6 months when you re-read everything.
Index → Architecture → Strategy → Med Layer 2 → Decisions Log (Skip Dev Plan unless you’re about to execute. Total: 30-45 min.)
Index status banner → Decisions Log → Architecture’s Concierge vs BYOK section (5 min.)
Decisions Log (look for new entries) → Strategy (gate progress) → Dev Plan (active phase) (15 min.)
Decisions Log (any active kill triggers?) → Dev Plan (Niki’s escalation path) → Architecture (the relevant component) (5 min triage.)
Index → Decisions Log → Strategy (Captain reads this when he’s lost the thread. The Decisions Log version-diff log is the audit trail.)
These exist in the wiki for historical record but are not on the public web:
yba-empire-development-plan-v1-ground-up-variant-2026-05-02.md
— the alternative plan if Captain had chosen ground-up. Decision was
hybrid.yba-build-vs-rent-decision-2026-05-02.md
— the reasoning behind the hybrid call. Conclusion lives in Decisions
Log entry D-008.yba-empire-doc-audit-2026-05-02.md —
the meta-audit that produced this cleanup. Conclusion lives in Decisions
Log entry D-016.These pages are kept readable via Obsidian for future-Captain to re-read but unpublished from the web to avoid casual readers landing on rejected paths.
The wiki/archive/ folder contains: - v1 + v2
architecture (superseded by v3) - The two “Office Brain” plans (the
product was renamed to Flow concierge in v3)
See wiki/archive/README.md for the policy. Don’t act on
archived content.
Maintained by Niki. Status banner auto-refreshes weekly once Phase 0 starts. Captain reviews monthly.