Coordination is becoming infrastructure.
Here's what that changes.
OrbaOS™ is a design framework for organizing work where coordination becomes infrastructure and humans focus on judgment, ethics, and meaning.
THE COORDINATION TAX
Coordination can consume ~30–40% of project budgets.
Meetings. Status reports. Approval chains. Syncing calendars. Chasing information. Explaining to one team what another team is doing.
This is the coordination tax—the hidden cost of humans coordinating humans. It made sense when we had no alternative. Now we do.
WHAT IS ORBAOS™
A framework for coordination as infrastructure.
OrbaOS™ treats coordination as a systems problem, not a people problem. Systems handle sensing, routing, and routine coordination. Humans handle meaning, ethics, and judgment.
Values Layer
Ethical and strategic commitments that guide autonomous systems
Flow Layer
How work moves from inception to delivery
Intelligence Layer
AI systems that sense, decide, and coordinate
Human Layer
Where distinctively human contribution happens
NEW CAREER PATHS
Four Roles That Replace Project Management
When systems handle coordination, humans focus on strategic work. These are the roles that matter in the post-project world.
Outcome Architect
Define what autonomous systems should optimize. Translate strategy into measurable outcomes.
Flow Engineer
Design and optimize value streams. Focus on throughput and the elimination of friction.
Ethics Guardian
Ensure autonomous systems operate within ethical boundaries. Monitor for drift and bias.
Consciousness Architect
Design how organizations think. Executive-level work shaping organizational patterns.
IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING
These organizations coordinate with far fewer traditional project roles.
Examples often cited include Netflix, Spotify, Haier, GitHub, and Amazon/AWS.
They've replaced hierarchical coordination with autonomous teams, transparent information, and platform-enabled flow. They're not experimenting with the future. They're operating in it.
Read the case studies →Where to begin
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