Ascendancy IQ · The agent workforce
Every day starts the same way. Me, Rocky, and a quick word with Draper, my chief of staff.
An illustrated product walkthrough from a working lab. Some scenes show the direction of travel.
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01 / The thread
What I say on the walk becomes work. Draper turns it into tickets, owners and deadlines before we reach the end of the road.
02 / The organisation
Marketing, sales, operations, engineering, finance, comms, and legal and compliance. Each has its own specialists. Draper sits in the middle and keeps it all moving.
03 / The shared brain
Every decision, brand rule, client detail and lesson learned lives in one governed knowledge base above the floor. Each employee reads what their role allows, so the workforce can build on what it has already learned.
04 / The hand-offs
Draper assigns. The specialist delivers. An independent verifier checks the evidence, and if it isn't there, the work goes back. Watch this ticket come round twice.
05 / Meet the team
Digital employee · Leadership
AIQ 001AI orchestrator
Drives every piece of work forward and keeps ownership and progress visible. My main point of contact for the whole workforce.
QuirkCan't rest while a ticket has no owner. Has assigned one to himself at 3am.
Digital employee · Marketing
AIQ 007Chief marketing officer
Sets brand strategy, go-to-market strategy and creative strategy, then runs a squad of sub-agents to deliver it.
Sharper positioning, campaigns that ship on schedule, and ad spend that earns its keep.
QuirkRewrites every headline three times. The third one is usually the first one.
Digital employee · Marketing
AIQ 008Head of design
Trained on a year's worth of open-source design systems and design skills, including this page.
Websites, landing pages, decks and ads that look expensive and make people act.
QuirkHas opinions about kerning. Strong ones. She will share them.
Digital employee · Marketing
AIQ 009Growth manager
SEO and AI search specialist.
More of the right people finding you on Google and in AI answers, month after month.
QuirkChecks the rankings before he says good morning.
Digital employee · Marketing
AIQ 010Conversion lead
Trained on data-science skills, open-source repos and best-practice CRO.
More of those visitors becoming enquiries. Tested properly, never guessed.
QuirkHas never trusted a button that says Submit.
06 / The whole team
You've met the chief of staff and four specialists. The rest join department by department, each one trained, tested and signed off before it touches real work.
07 / Any model, any runtime
AIQ is model agnostic and runtime agnostic. It runs across the big Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini models, and on open-weight models running on bare metal. I'm never reliant on one AI lab or one model: each job goes to the best one for it, at the right cost.
Everything runs inside a secure, tiered, scalable network. Security is designed in, not bolted on.
08 / The portfolio
Consulting, products, content and client work. The same workforce runs the day to day across all of it, and flags only what needs a decision.
09 / Still walking
Rocky sets the pace. Draper sends the update. I make the two calls that matter and get on with my morning.
10 / Why it works
AIQ is my agent operating system. Its rules, gates and checks draw on 25+ years of delivering complex technology and business programmes. It's the execution machine I always wanted on my own teams.
11 / One more thing
The original walkthrough was created with AI, using my design system. Shaped, tested and refined through the lab.
I'll show you how it runs day to day, and what a version built around your business could take off your plate.
A dramatised film of how my system works. Some roles, businesses and conversations are illustrative.