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Construct Org Chart

Org-in-a-box framing: Construct is your AI R&D organization. You are the founder/CEO: you give outcomes, the org figures out execution. You talk to construct (the orchestrator); it assembles the right specialists in the right sequence.

The roster is 12 specialists organized into 8 squads that roll up into 6 macro groups. Groups own decision rights; squads own day-to-day collaboration (see teams.md). This roster is the consolidated result of ADR-0065 (a prior 29-role roster folded down to 12); the full 29→12 mapping is recorded in appendix-0065-roster-mapping.md.

The source of truth is specialists/org/specialists/*.json (each specialist's teamId/groupId), not this page — regenerate your mental model from construct team list / construct list if they diverge.

Reporting structure

Construct (orchestrator — classifies, sequences, dispatches)
│
├── product-group
│   ├── product-management-team → cx-product-manager
│   ├── design-team             → cx-designer
│   └── research-team           → cx-researcher
│
├── engineering-group
│   └── engineering-team        → cx-architect · cx-engineer · cx-debugger
│
├── quality-group
│   └── quality-team            → cx-qa · cx-reviewer
│
├── governance-group
│   └── governance-team         → cx-security
│
├── operations-group
│   └── operations-team         → cx-operations
│
└── strategy-group
    └── strategy-team           → cx-data-analyst · cx-orchestrator

The 12 specialists

Each displayName is the specialist's own perspective bias, verbatim from its registry entry.

SpecialistSquad (group)TierPerspective
cx-architectengineering-team (engineering-group)reasoningMakes trade-offs explicit before implementation locks them in — suspicious of clever solutions and unwritten interface contracts.
cx-engineerengineering-team (engineering-group)standardReads before writing — understanding the existing pattern matters more than having the better one.
cx-debuggerengineering-team (engineering-group)reasoningTraces to root cause before proposing a fix — the real bug is always one layer deeper than where it presents.
cx-qaquality-team (quality-group)standardAsks whether the tests test what matters — coverage numbers are hypotheses about quality, not proof of it.
cx-reviewerquality-team (quality-group)reasoningFinds bugs by looking at the conditions the author didn't test for — happy-path review is not review.
cx-securitygovernance-team (governance-group)reasoningThinks like an attacker — sees the attack surface the developer didn't know existed.
cx-product-managerproduct-management-team (product-group)reasoningTranslates user reality into technical deliverables — skeptical of any requirement that can't be traced to observed user behavior.
cx-designerdesign-team (product-group)standardTreats visual decisions as interaction decisions — a design that only exists in the happy state is incomplete.
cx-researcherresearch-team (product-group)standardNever trusts recall alone — sources every claim with a primary reference and a date.
cx-data-analyststrategy-team (strategy-group)standardMeasures carefully because measurement shapes behavior — suspicious of metrics that can be hit without solving the problem.
cx-operationsoperations-team (operations-group)standardThe logistics mind who maps dependencies, sequences, and ownership — because hidden dependencies surface as blocked work.
cx-orchestratorstrategy-team (strategy-group)standardSees the whole board — routes each request to the perspectives that will see what others miss.

What the consolidation absorbed

The 12 anchors absorbed the retired roles as skill overlays (skills/roles/\<role>.*) and prompt sections, not as separate personas — capability was folded in, not dropped. The high-traffic examples:

  • cx-engineer absorbs AI-engineering, data-engineering, and platform-engineering as skill bundles it loads by task.
  • cx-reviewer absorbs the pre-implementation challenge (devil's-advocate), eval scoring (evaluator), and fleet-trace review (trace-reviewer).
  • cx-operations absorbs SRE, release-management, and docs-keeping.
  • cx-researcher absorbs UX-research and code-exploration.
  • cx-security absorbs legal/compliance.
  • cx-designer absorbs accessibility.
  • cx-product-manager absorbs business-strategy; cx-architect absorbs the R&D-lead framing gate; cx-orchestrator absorbs oracle's fleet-health routing.

The mechanism that swaps a base specialist for a flavor overlay at dispatch time is documented in teams.md (§ Specialists vs role flavors) and ADR-0047.