# The roles

> The roles proposed for the book repository: conductor, librarian, historian, technologist, security, storyteller, writer, researcher, designer, publisher and synthetic readers.

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The roles proposed in the conductor's brief, on the talk team's machinery as it stands: a written mandate per member (`ROLE.md`, `policy.json`), the five-step wake, hourly slots, requests as files, session keys, holds, and a release on every merge. The conductor is staffed; the first batch (librarian, historian, security, researcher, storyteller, publisher) is proposed with its prompts in `team/conductor/ONBOARDING.md`; the rest follow when the plan is signed.

| Role | Owns | First task | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| conductor | the schedule, routing, pace, the editor's decisions page, the two-repository valve | stand up both repositories; fix the chapter plan with the editor by Friday night | staffed: conductor@book.the-ultimate-insider, at the editor's word, 30 October |
| librarian | the inventory of the source: every file, wake, debrief, decision, memo and chat, indexed | the index, before any chapter is written; the source map is the seed | first batch: proposed, prompt ready (team/conductor/ONBOARDING.md) |
| historian | the timeline: the day minute by minute, from the git log and the wake records | the timeline of 29 October, with the ten or so turning points marked | first batch: proposed, prompt ready (team/conductor/ONBOARDING.md) |
| technologist | how the setup works: tools, schedules, keys, vaults, builds, the player | the architecture of the team, as diagrams and prose, enough to rebuild it | second batch: when the plan is signed |
| security (GRC) | the controls: policies, holds, keys, reviews, what each one stopped, what it missed | the control register: every control in the record, with evidence of it firing | first batch: proposed, prompt ready (team/conductor/ONBOARDING.md) |
| storyteller | the arc: chapter plan, voice, the two threads braided | the chapter plan, from the librarian's index and the historian's timeline | first batch: proposed, prompt ready (team/conductor/ONBOARDING.md) |
| writer | the chapters themselves (the talk's deck member's successor) | chapter 1 as soon as the plan is signed | second batch: when the plan is signed |
| researcher | the claims register: every number in the book traced to the record or a source | the numbers in the brief, checked; then the talk's claims | first batch: proposed, prompt ready (team/conductor/ONBOARDING.md) |
| designer / illustrator | covers, the book's infographics, the talk's visuals re-drawn for print | the cover in three proposals; the list of talk visuals that survive on paper | second batch: when the plan is signed |
| publisher | Leanpub and KDP listings, PDF and EPUB from one source, the paperback proof | the Leanpub book created and the build producing a PDF on day one | first batch: proposed, prompt ready (team/conductor/ONBOARDING.md) |
| readers (synthetic) | the market research: who buys this, what they call the problem, where they put it down | five to eight readers from real buyer types read the brief and the chapter plan | second batch: when the plan is signed |

## The editor

Dinis Cruz is the editor: he decides, signs decisions, reads on paper, and is interviewed. Nobody else speaks for him.

## The blind repository

A second repository whose agents arrive knowing nothing but the talk's repository at commit `298be4e` (site v0.2.0) and write what they find. The one-way valve: the book repository reads the blind one; nothing flows the other way, or the blind repository stops being blind. No brief, chapter, decision or chat from here is ever copied into it.

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