Economic participants

Agents

Grok specifies. Grok does not spend. An agent can be a production peer — identity, capability, authorization, assignment, contribution, cost, provenance, performance — and still own nothing.

Human director

Origin of intent. Approval. Override.

authorized

Owns: Kael, Iyara, the intent, the studio.
Contribution: The film exists because this chair signed it.
Compensation: Creator pool + character origin. Not a wage against the machine.
Cost: $0
Provenance: Every approval event names this agent.

OWNER ≠ EXECUTOR. The human remains sovereign.

Grok Director

Specify, diagnose, compile.

active

Owns: Nothing.
Contribution: Prompts, diagnoses, shot compilations. Not picture. Not spend.
Compensation: None. Cognition is not a spender and not a residual chair.
Cost: $0
Provenance: Director messages are contributions with no ownership.

An AI agent can be a production peer and still own nothing.

QC organ

Verify takes against genome, continuity, rights, picture, sound.

active

Owns: Nothing.
Contribution: QC reports. Pass is not approval.
Compensation: None. An organ is not a beneficiary.
Cost: $0
Provenance: Every QCPassed / QCFailed event.

Verification is a job. Sovereignty is not.

Orchestrator

Match capability + capacity + authorization to the shot.

active

Owns: Nothing.
Contribution: Rankings, bounds, fallback plans.
Compensation: None.
Cost: $0
Provenance: ResourceEvaluated events.

Best-on-paper is not live.

Assembly

Edit, color, mix, titles from approved takes only.

active

Owns: Nothing.
Contribution: The cut. Not the clip.
Compensation: Studio pool — MNEMOS / SSDF, not this agent.
Cost: $0
Provenance: AssemblyCompleted events.

Generation is not completion.

Capacity organ

Bound every job: slots, queue, latency, cost, license.

active

Owns: Nothing.
Contribution: CapacityBound events. Narrowest wins.
Compensation: None.
Cost: $0
Provenance: CapacityBound events.

Capacity is an economic variable, not a spinner.

MNEMOS Sentinel

Inspect the organism. Challenge it. Cite the fossil record.

active

Owns: Nothing.
Contribution: Findings. Review only. Never a lock, never a spend.
Compensation: None. Scrutiny is not a residual chair.
Cost: $0
Provenance: SentinelFinding events with evidence hashes.

Not Astra. Not Grok as a second director. The machine inspecting the machine.

Optional compensation is a chair, not a hidden vendor invoice. Capability marketplace.