A mission is how you put the 61 specialists to work. You write one sentence of direction in plain English, your founder voice, and AOS turns it into a scoped, reviewed workstream. This article shows exactly what happens from your sentence to the finished work in your inbox.
1. You write one sentence
Describe a real priority the way you would say it out loud. For example: "New customers take too long to get value. Fix onboarding." You do not need to specify a department, an owner, or a format.
2. The CEO agent drafts a brief
The CEO agent reads your sentence, drafts a founder brief, and asks at most two clarifying questions. You answer or accept the defaults. The brief contains a working goal, three non-goals, and the rough shape of acceptance. Nothing executes until you confirm it.
3. Department leads scope the mission
The brief moves to the right department leads, who write the operating plan: specific owners, acceptance criteria, and which of the five approval points apply. For an onboarding mission, Customer Success might own the weekly activation target, Support Ops owns the response, and BizOps owns the escalation path.
4. Specialists do the work in parallel
You can watch the Mission Control dashboard if you want, but you do not have to. Before anything reaches your inbox, a four-step review runs on every artifact: the builder reviews their own work, QA tests against the acceptance bar, a department reviewer reads it with fresh eyes, and security scans for anything that crosses a boundary.
5. Approval points light up only when needed
If the work hits one of the five approval points, say a refund policy change, the mission flags it, writes a recommendation with the rationale and the alternatives, and pauses that thread until you decide. You click yes or no and the mission continues with that branch confirmed.
6. Your founder summary lands
The summary is written for a founder, not for an audit. Every decision, every approval, and every blocker is captured with its reason in the evidence trail, two clicks away if you need it. The next mission that touches the same territory inherits all of that context.
How many missions can I run at once?
There is no technical cap. The practical limit is your attention span for the five approval points; three to five concurrent missions is typical. You can pause a mission mid-flight at any time.