The Compound Operations Model

Open-source AI operations playbook for consumer SMEs, published by Compai.

The operating system behind an 8-figure consumer brand running on AI for €352/month. Read it. Fork it. Build your own.

This repository documents the operating system pattern behind a real 8-figure consumer brand running AI agents in production: company Brain, MCP tools, domain agents, employee onboarding, health audits, shared memory, and controlled action queues.

This is not a SaaS repo. It is an educational implementation portfolio: read it, fork it, adapt it, and keep humans in the approval loop where actions carry risk.

Current Version

v2.2 - 10 June 2026

Latest update: hardening the brain. We ran a due-diligence audit on our own system and published the findings and fixes as chapters/10s-hardening-the-brain.md:

The auth maturity ladder: open -> protect -> enforce, machine identity per node (anonymous writes 84% -> ~13%)
Resilience: git-versioned brain (15-min auto-commits + change ledger), dual encrypted backups, checksum-verified restores, batch rollback
The execution loop: backlog hygiene with anti-boomerang archiving, throttled generators, a daily triage digest hard-capped at 10 items
The sequencing rule: no new ingestion sources until the closed-loop rate is above 30%

v2.1 (9 June 2026) added the operational compounding loop (10r): health audits, inbox sweeper, skill eval harness, skillify loop, shared memory contract, L3 action queues, and workflow mining.

What Is Inside

Path	Contents
`chapters/`	Full public playbook source (53 chapters), including Brain v2, the operational loop, and brain hardening
`kit/`	Starter implementation kit: init CLI, MCP server template, compliance scaffold, onboarding pack, SOUL templates, systemd templates, monitoring scripts
`skills/`	5 public starter skills + the full skills catalog — what the 352 are and what's being released next
`pattern-library/`	Anonymized operational patterns and schema
`case-study/`	Anonymized reference case study

Start Here

Read chapters/00-index.md.
Read the architecture: chapters/03-architecture.md.
Read the Brain chapters: chapters/10l-brain-v2-living-memory.md through chapters/10s-hardening-the-brain.md.
Inspect the implementation kit: kit/README.md.
Use the patterns as a starting point, not as a blind install script.

Operating Model

The model has four layers:

Brain - structured company memory, source paths, world model, tasks, outputs, health.
Tools - MCP interfaces to business systems and operational data.
Agents - domain-specific agents with clear ownership, tools, and escalation rules.
Compounding loop - capture, triage, package, queue, audit, and write back.

The key shift is bidirectionality. Agents do not only read the Brain. They write decisions, gotchas, workflow state, and completed work back into the shared memory.

What Changed Since the Original v1 Repo

The original public repo only contained three introductory chapters. This version publishes the full current playbook and public-safe starter artifacts.

Important corrections:

Current brand: Compai. OperAI was the legacy/internal name.
Current repo: darLAAGAM/compound-operations-model.
The playbook is no longer just a multi-agent architecture essay. It now includes Brain v2, employee onboarding, setup 1-click, shared memory, health, and workflow mining.
ROI language now uses the audited 18:1 model from the public playbook, not older 31:1/50:1 marketing claims.

What Not To Copy Blindly

Do not copy a reference deployment's private data, credentials, Slack channels, Google Workspace accounts, HR records, customer records, or source-system tokens.

Copy the contracts:

source paths on durable facts
owner and stale dates on docs
privacy hard-stops
human approval for risky actions
action ledger
health checks
explicit escalation rules

Live Site

Playbook and dashboard: https://usecompai.com
Contact: [email protected]

Community

This is built in public, and it's meant to be copied. The best thing you can do is fork it, run it, and tell us what happened.

Share what you built — open a showcase issue. We keep a public list of real deployments.
Improve the playbook — fixes, clarifications, validated patterns, translations. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Ask a question — open a question if a chapter left you stuck.
Report a bug — bug report. Security issues go to SECURITY.md, not public issues.

Be useful and be kind: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. See LICENSE.

Commercial usage or implementation help: [email protected].