4 Visual Layer — The Single Light
↑ click to drill down
Production
4 work centers
Fulfillment
shipping + logistics
Maintenance
equipment health
Inventory
MRO + materials
Marketing
channels + brand
All Green
Simulate Amber
Simulate Red
▲ health signals propagate up
3 Domain Registry — Self-Discovering Manifest
Agents register on startup → Registry builds the topology → Visual layer auto-configures
📋 domain manifests
🔗 parent-child hierarchy
🎯 signal routing rules
👤 observer-role mapping
▲ agents register domains ▼ topology flows down
2 Domain Agents — Intelligence Layer
🏭
Production
PLC → SQL signals
📦
Fulfillment
NetSuite + ShipStation
🔧
Maintenance
JSON schedules + MRO
💰
Sales
HubSpot + Shopify
📊
Quality
SPC + inspections
🤖
AI System
agent fleet health
Human-Agent Pairing — Work Centers
👷
⚡
🤖
CNC Router
👷♀️
⚡
🤖
Edge Bander
👷
⚡
🤖
Pack Station
👷♀️
⚡
🤖
QC Station
▲ signals published ▼ instructions received
1 Signal Bus — The Nervous System
pub/sub signals
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health propagation
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agent-to-agent messaging
•
action triggers
▲ data extracted ▼ actions dispatched
0 Data Sources + Physical World
🗄️
MS SQL
PLC data (ProFace)
📒
NetSuite
ERP / orders / inventory
🛒
Shopify
ecommerce orders
📄
JSON Configs
maintenance / rules
📧
Email / Slack
comms signals
"Data becomes information only when observed in context.
Its value decays with latency and degrades with noise.
The optimal system maintains total awareness while presenting
the minimum sufficient signal to each observer at each moment.
Intelligence is the aperture. "
— Jerry McCall & Maxrow, 2026