
The Mad Men Era of Knowledge Work: Inside Román Olivera's Agent Brain
Román Olivera runs his company on files and folders. No database, no CRM platform — a fractal system he calls Flatfish, built from plain text and a set of rules an agent reads before it does anything else. On this episode of Operator AI, he opens it up and shows exactly how it works.
Román Olivera, from Orban Labs, walks Zachary King through the system live. Every folder that matters is a "node," and every node carries the same four things: rules for how to behave there, a current-state file for what's true now, an append-only log for what happened, and a registry so an agent can find its way…
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