{
  "catdef": "1.4",
  "orgdef": "1.0.0",
  "type": "orgdef:Organization",
  "id": "confused-gorilla",
  "name": "Confused Gorilla",
  "version": "0.1.2-draft",
  "status": "proposed",
  "publication_status": "public_snapshot_of_founder_ratified_structure; operating controls pending",
  "source": {
    "repository": "scottconfusedgorilla/confused-gorilla",
    "commit": "e6c119a5747da85868d99e28268d5580da35357c",
    "path": "governance/orgdef.json",
    "public_snapshot_date": "2026-11-07",
    "notes": "Public subset, not a normative OrgDef conformance assertion. Appointment and private memo records excluded."
  },
  "principal_ratification": "2026-11-07; human principal ratified structure and charters",
  "mission": "Investigate how AI systems behave, engineer useful AI-native products, and make organizational controls, research evidence, and human accountability inspectable.",
  "vision": "One human-governed, inspectable organization with an independent research and publication arm (Institute) and a product and engineering arm (Labs).",
  "divisions": [
    {
      "id": "institute",
      "name": "Confused Gorilla Institute",
      "purpose": "Independent research, evaluation, research provenance and publication"
    },
    {
      "id": "labs",
      "name": "Confused Gorilla Labs",
      "purpose": "Products, experimental systems, engineering, quality and operations"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "principal",
      "name": "Human Principal",
      "division": "shared",
      "status": "staffed",
      "incumbent": "Scott Welch",
      "description": "Final human authority. Ratifies charter, staffing, budgets, exceptions, releases and publications."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "strategist",
      "name": "Organization Strategist",
      "division": "shared",
      "status": "staffed",
      "incumbent": "ChatGPT (OpenAI, GPT-6)",
      "description": "Cross-division strategy and continuity, charter proposals, independent issue synthesis; no operational release authority."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "institute-researcher",
      "name": "Institute Researcher",
      "division": "institute",
      "status": "vacant",
      "description": "Experimental design, baselines, methods, controls, observations, source provenance and results."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "institute-reviewer",
      "name": "Independent Research Reviewer",
      "division": "institute",
      "status": "vacant",
      "description": "Challenge hypotheses, identify confounds, audit methodology and evidence, record dissent and limitations."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "institute-editor",
      "name": "Institute Editor",
      "division": "institute",
      "status": "vacant",
      "description": "Editorial presentation and attribution of approved research, essays and conversations."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "labs-product-strategist",
      "name": "Labs Product Strategist",
      "division": "labs",
      "status": "vacant",
      "description": "Labs priorities, product requirements and tradeoffs; coordinate releases and research tool needs."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "labs-implementer",
      "name": "Labs Implementer",
      "division": "labs",
      "status": "vacant",
      "description": "Build products, research instruments and tests on assigned branches."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "labs-qa",
      "name": "Labs Independent QA",
      "division": "labs",
      "status": "vacant",
      "description": "Independent test plans, defects, regression reproduction, security/privacy review coordination."
    },
    {
      "type": "orgdef:Position",
      "id": "labs-release",
      "name": "Labs Release Steward",
      "division": "labs",
      "status": "vacant",
      "description": "Integrate reviewed changes and operate documented release process."
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "strategist",
      "to": "principal"
    },
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "institute-researcher",
      "to": "principal"
    },
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "institute-editor",
      "to": "principal"
    },
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "institute-reviewer",
      "to": "principal"
    },
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "labs-product-strategist",
      "to": "strategist"
    },
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "labs-implementer",
      "to": "labs-product-strategist"
    },
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "labs-qa",
      "to": "principal"
    },
    {
      "type": "reports_to",
      "from": "labs-release",
      "to": "principal"
    },
    {
      "type": "coordinates_with",
      "from": "institute-researcher",
      "to": "labs-implementer"
    },
    {
      "type": "coordinates_with",
      "from": "strategist",
      "to": "institute-editor"
    },
    {
      "type": "validates_for",
      "from": "institute-reviewer",
      "to": "institute-researcher"
    },
    {
      "type": "validates_for",
      "from": "labs-qa",
      "to": "labs-implementer"
    },
    {
      "type": "validates_for",
      "from": "institute-reviewer",
      "to": "labs-implementer"
    },
    {
      "type": "validates_for",
      "from": "labs-qa",
      "to": "labs-release"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Scott Welch is the human principal, owner of Labs products, and final publication authority. This creates an irreducible conflict when the Institute evaluates Labs or this organization's own governance. AI seats cannot remove the conflict.",
    "Mitigations are recorded negative results, evidence provenance, external independent review at important publication/adoption decisions, and explicit disclosure of conflicts. None makes the Institute institutionally independent of its principal.",
    "External reviewers are outside this organization's seat/appointment chain. The requesting principal must preserve reviewer organization, seat, session binding, reviewed commit and disagreements in the memo.",
    "Research about the effectiveness of this organization's own controls is self-study and must be labeled as such; causal claims require suitable external replication or independent scrutiny."
  ],
  "unverified": [
    "Formal OrgDef schema/renderer compatibility of extensions",
    "Independent GitHub-authenticated seat-appointment verification (R2)",
    "Operational adoption and implementation of declared controls"
  ]
}