Living Document · v1 · Updated 2026-08-09

How we run

This is not a marketing page — it’s an operating document. It records how Notique actually runs: what’s automated, and where humans remain. We update it as the boundary moves.

Structure — four layers

Humans

Direction and priorities, quality standards and boundaries, the design of the company's structure, final accountability

Control layer

Project cards as the single source of truth, focus declarations, human approval gates — a self-built control system tracks state, deadlines, and tasks across every project

Agent layer

Development, deployment, research, content drafts — LLM-based agent sessions do the execution and report back into the control layer

Automation layer

30+ always-on jobs — uptime monitoring, data collection, and publishing pipelines run without a human

Orders don’t flow top-down. The human refines the structure — cards, standards, gates — and the other layers run on top of it. Human involvement lives in structural design, not step-by-step verification.

Automation Frontier — as of 2026-08-09

Automated

  • Most code writing and review
  • Builds and deployments
  • Uptime monitoring and anomaly detection
  • SEO and site operations (indexing, metadata)
  • Recurring data collection and aggregation

Semi-automated — human gate

  • Release decisions — agents prepare, a human approves
  • Content publishing — agents draft, a human approves
  • Customer replies — agents draft, a human reviews

Still human

  • Direction and priorities
  • Contracts, calls, negotiation
  • Payment, legal, and regulatory accountability
  • Final sign-off on quality
  • Deciding whether to build a new product at all

Next frontier

  • Auto-published monthly lab logs — agents read our operating data, draft the log, and publish after human approval
  • Measuring autonomy — human-intervention hours per week, and the share of pipelines that finish without a human

Versions

v1 · 2026-08-09 — first public release

Drafted by agents, approved by Sihyun Kim.