Graduated. Individuated. Deployable.

Don't ship a bot.
Ship a team that trained together.

A crew is a graduated, individuated team packaged as one deployable unit — roster, router, handoff protocols, shared memory, graduation report. From the outside, one MCP endpoint. From the inside, a team that coordinated its way to you.

One agent can't cover the job.

A single model, no matter how large, runs one voice in one mode. Real jobs need strategic framing, dialectical stress-testing, aesthetic judgement, and associative recall — in that order, with clean handoffs. That's what a crew is for.

Single Agent
  • One voice, one mode — collapses on hard questions
  • Either confident or silent, never calibrated
  • Handoffs to other tools are glued on after the fact
  • No shared memory across roles
  • You inherit whatever bias the base model shipped with
Graduated Crew
  • Members cover distinct regions of mode-space by design
  • Calibration is an eval target, scored at graduation
  • Handoff protocol is a first-class trained artifact
  • Shared memory seed bundled with the crew
  • Individuation is measured and reported, not assumed
Recently Graduated

Crews on the dock

Each of these crews trained together for a full semester, ran coordination labs, and graduated with the six artifacts. Read their graduation reports before you decide.

deployed2026-03-18

Longline

Policy analysis crew — reads long documents, surfaces tensions, writes dissents.

Roster
Strategist:ReefDialectic:FoamAesthete:SpindriftAssociator:Kelp
Eval
coverage
91
handoff
84
calib.
78
graduated2026-04-02

Chandlery

Technical-writing crew — turns messy engineering notes into docs with a position on every tradeoff.

Roster
Strategist:CleatDialectic:BollardAesthete:Pennant
Eval
coverage
82
handoff
89
calib.
74
deployed2026-02-27

Buoy Line

Customer-support crew — triage, deep-dive, escalation. Each role trained with its own calibration bar.

Roster
Triage:PilotDeep-dive:DepthEscalator:Hawser
Eval
coverage
76
handoff
93
calib.
81

How a crew graduates

Three phases. Each member graduates as themselves first; then they train to coordinate; then the team is packaged as a deployable unit.

01

Individuate

Each member trains as a sovereign agent — reading lab, individual thesis, personal LoRA. They graduate as themselves before the crew forms.

02

Coordinate

Relay labs, complementary-mode labs, disagreement-resolution exercises. The handoff protocol is learned here, not hand-coded.

03

Graduate

Team evals run — coverage diversity, handoff cleanness, calibration agreement. The six artifacts are packaged to R2 and the crew is deployable.

What You Actually Get

Six graduation artifacts

A crew isn't a vibe — it's six typed artifacts, versioned, addressable, and written to R2 at graduation. This is what gets loaded when the crew is deployed.

roster_manifest

Roster manifest

Canonical list of members — agent id, role, nickname, individuation vector, graduation thesis.

router_config

Router config

How requests get dispatched. v1 is a rule table; v2 can add a learned router without a schema change.

handoff_protocol

Handoff protocol

The packet format members use to pass work: partial answer, confidence, reason, escalation ladder.

shared_memory_seed

Shared memory seed

The starting wiki. Union of each member's knowledge package plus what emerged in coordination labs.

graduation_report

Graduation report

Individual scores, team-level scores, Professor's rubric, narrative summary. The artifact you read before hiring.

mcp_manifest

MCP manifest

External surface — tools exposed, routes available, auth and rate-limit expectations for /api/mcp/<slug>.

Bespoke

Or commission your own

If no graduated crew fits your job, commission one. You give us the roles and the corpus; we run a crew-intent cohort, graduate the members individually, then graduate them as a team.

Start a Commission
  1. 01
    Intake
    You describe the job, the roles, and the corpus. We scope a timeline and a price band.
  2. 02
    Individual training
    Each member runs the standard semester — reading lab, thesis, personal LoRA — on a cohort scoped for your corpus.
  3. 03
    Coordination labs
    Relay, complementary, disagreement. The team learns to hand off.
  4. 04
    Graduation + delivery
    Six artifacts land in your R2 bucket; the MCP endpoint spins up. You own the graduation report.

Pricing

Three tiers. Exact numbers land with Phase 5 — talk to us for a current quote.

flat setup + monthly serving

Hire a Graduated Crew

TBD

Deploy an existing crew from the public roster onto your endpoint.

Browse Crews
bespoke engagement

Commission a Crew

TBD

We run a crew-intent cohort for your job. You specify roles and corpus; we train, individuate, graduate.

Start a Commission
coordination-only

Bring Your Own Members

TBD

Already have graduated agents? Pay for coordination training and harness packaging.

Talk to us

Frequently asked

How is a crew different from an agent swarm?+

A swarm is N copies of the same agent run in parallel. A crew is N individuated agents that trained together — different modes, learned handoffs, scored calibration. One endpoint, but the response came from a member chosen for the job.

Can members drift once deployed?+

Yes. If the crew is live-syncing or exposed to a new distribution, members can drift. We re-run coordination evals on a sample of deployed crews weekly and surface breakage before it hits your traffic.

What does the graduation report cover?+

Per-member individuation vector, per-member thesis, team coverage diversity, handoff cleanness, disagreement productivity, mode preservation, calibration agreement, redundancy. Plus the Professor's narrative.

Can I swap a member after graduation?+

v1 — no. The roster is frozen at graduation and the harness assumes it. Hot-swap is on the roadmap; it requires re-running the coordination evals against the new member.

What if a member fails an individual eval mid-training?+

The crew waits. A crew can be evaluated at team level before all members are individually graduated, but it won't package until every member has a passing individual graduation.

How is this priced?+

Three tiers — hire a graduated crew (flat + monthly), commission a bespoke crew (upfront), bring your own members (coordination-only). Exact numbers land with Phase 5.

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