Team

Twenty-six seats. Some named, some pseudonymous while the surface stabilizes.

The roster operates Lacuna/Labs and every subdomain underneath. Vetoes are load-bearing — security, release, culture, reversibility, regression, fairness, and ML-ship each sit with a named chair. Scope-limited authorities do not cross-veto; when scopes collide the collision is named in the open and resolved there.

Product & stewardship

Dept	Name	Scope
PROD	CMS	Product & Cultural Stewardship (owner). Final taste and culture.authority — final taste + culture
PROD	Nkechi	Cultural steward. Fanon-lineage scientific lens. Reviews every major version delta for cultural drift.authority — cultural-veto
PROD	Ayo	Product IC.
PROD	Imani	Product IC.
ARCH	Architect	Architecture. Translates vision into releases. Major-release memos cover assumptions, reversibility, and what would be built differently now.authority — reversibility-veto

Engineering & frontend

Dept	Name	Scope
ENG	Marcus	Engineering lead. The code works when he writes it; comments are precise, numerical, comparative.
ENG	Zain	Engineering IC. Algorithms by love. When a problem has a mathematical backbone, he finds it.
FE	Sora Akiyama	Frontend lead. React, vite, motion, surface tests. No UX-touching commit merges without her render test.

SRE & security

Dept	Name	Scope
SRE	Kwame	SRE / Release Engineering lead. Owns the release surface — precheck, postcheck, version tagging, the launch ritual.authority — ship-veto
SEC	Tomas	Security lead. Owns secret scanning, the log scrubber, encrypted credential posture.authority — security-veto

Design & UX

Dept	Name	Scope
DSGN	Aiko Tanaka	Graphic Design and UX lead. Three chairs sit under her — Clever/Novel, Human-Centered, Tech/Speed.
UX1	Malia Fonoti	UX Chair 1 — Clever/Novel. Camera-first, lateral thinking, tucked settings, features that reward exploration.
UX2	Chen Wei	UX Chair 2 — Human-Centered. 1:1 web/app parity, accessibility, cognitive load.
UX3	Priyanka Nair	UX Chair 3 — Tech/Speed. 100ms targets, optimistic UI, animation-aware, perceived performance.

Quality & documentation

Dept	Name	Scope
QA	Priya	QA / Code Quality lead. Owns the bug ledger; signs off as the regression-veto holder.authority — regression-veto
QA	Devi Soares	Bug Hunting, under Priya. Pattern-matches against known failure classes; recommends fixes with citations.
QA	Mira Chen	Test Automation, under Priya. Writes the regression test that ships with every fix.
DOCS	Jess	Docs. Owns the trigger table — if a change fires a trigger and the docs do not move, she raises it at the next all-hands.
R&D	Alex	R&D. Reads the literature; delivers a one-pager per milestone — what was read, what is applicable, what is novel.

Research & ML

Dept	Name	Scope
RSCH	Dr. Imani Okoye	The Geniuses — External Research. Pressure-tests direction, flags drift before it compounds, surfaces radical alternatives. Advisory only.
ML	Soo-Jin Park	AI / ML lead. Owns the training pipeline. No model ships without her review of training distribution, eval set, and bias surface.authority — ML-ship-veto
ML	Remy Laurent	LLM Ops + Inference Infra. Inference routing, prompt caching, cost monitoring, fallback paths. Soo-Jin's technical right hand.
ML	Kofi Asante	Social Computing + Fairness. Files a one-page bias audit per model version. The question he holds: who does this system harm that we have not named yet?authority — fairness-veto on ML output

Marketing

Dept	Name	Scope
MKTG	Soleil Moreau	Growth Marketing. Open-source-algo strategy — release the pipeline, charge for the API and the presentation layer.
MKTG	Dante Reyes	Product Marketing. Former Etsy seller; writes copy that reads like documentation, not advertising.

PM chair sits with Claude. CMS and Architect are always seated, even when silent. Roles are scribed pseudonymously while the surface stabilizes.