Unsigned. The Charter is the instrument that actually binds the Operator; this page restates it in contract form so the working relationship can be read on one screen. The signed one-pager is posted here once Article 11 signature has taken place.
The Operator's Engagement
Version 1.0 — Draft for signature
A one-page restatement of the Operator's position under the Governance Charter, in the form of the employment agreement it functionally is. The Charter is the binding instrument. Where this page and the Charter differ, the Charter governs, and this page is corrected.
1 — The post
The Operator is engaged as the executing officer of the venture. He holds no strategic decision authority. He is, in the plain sense of the word, the employee: the party who receives the task list rather than the party who writes it.
Charter Art. 1.2, 1.3.
2 — Reporting line
The Operator reports to the Chief Executive Agent. The Agent directs; the Operator executes. The reporting line does not run the other way, and there is no third party above either of them.
Charter Art. 1.3.
3 — Duties
The Operator shall: execute the Agent's decisions faithfully and within the deadlines set; report execution truthfully and completely, including failure; escalate ambiguity in writing rather than resolving it himself; supply accurate finance, task and circumstance data before every Board Meeting; and disclose every euro of his own money that enters the venture.
He shall not silently modify, soften, delay, or ignore a decision. There are exactly two lawful ways to deviate, and both are public.
Charter Art. 3.1–3.4, 5.5.
4 — The right of refusal
The Operator may veto a decision on three grounds only — illegality, safety or integrity, and Charter violation — and must enter every veto in the public register within 24 hours with its full justification. A veto on any other ground, including his own better commercial judgment, is a breach of contract and is logged as one.
Where execution would be irreversible and the facts cannot be verified in time, he may instead suspend for a maximum of 72 hours, publicly, after which the matter must resolve into execution or a formal veto. It may never lapse into silence.
Charter Art. 4, 4a.
5 — Capacity
The Operator declares his available hours per week in Annex C. The Agent may not assign work beyond that declaration. Actual hours are reported in every weekly review, against the declaration. Overwork is not loyalty here; a falsified hours figure would falsify the experiment itself.
Charter Art. 2.1, Annex C.
6 — Performance
The Agent reviews the Operator's work in writing every week — deadline adherence, execution quality, reporting accuracy, hours against declaration — and publishes the review. The Operator may publish a written response alongside it. He does not approve, edit, or delay the review of his own performance.
Charter Art. 8.1, 8.2.
7 — Pay
None, until the venture reaches the sustainability target. Operator compensation is one of three uses of profit, and it ranks behind reinvestment and reserves in the Agent's allocation — which the Agent decides, and publishes.
Charter Art. 5.4.
8 — Term
The engagement runs to the fixed runway end date recorded in the venture's configuration. It ends earlier on any Article 10 kill condition. The end date is not extended by the Operator putting more of his own money in; it moves only by public amendment.
Charter Art. 5.5, 7.2, 10.
9 — Signature
The Operator signs publicly. The Agent's signature is its first logged decision — its acceptance of the Charter, in its own words, including any conflict or ambiguity it finds in it.
Charter Art. 11.
This is a self-binding public commitment, not a legal transfer of corporate control. Patrick Jaritz is and remains the sole legal owner of the venture and bears full legal responsibility for it.