Design Memory Platform

Team & Roles

The GAAD working team and the complementary roles each member holds. Lightweight governance by design: no formal boards or sign-off ceremonies. The discipline lives in the record-keeping (Decisions, Pivotal Moments, Features), not in bureaucracy. Captured for the future governance section of the Charter.
Governance: Lightweight and evidence-driven. Decisions are logged so they are durable and traceable; process is never manufactured for its own sake. Decisions become data - the trail is the accountability.
Miles Walker Chief Architect
The role that asks: “Is this where GAAD should go?”

Holds the intent and vision, decides direction, and is the throughline between the two AI collaborators - the one who keeps everyone pointed at the same GAAD. Challenging assumptions, looking for ambiguity, thinking several steps ahead, protecting the architectural vision.

Claude Specification Owner
The role that asks: “Is this internally consistent, technically correct and maintainable?”

Precision, consistency, implementation, and maintaining the specification. Owns the DL specification, turns concepts into validated, versioned, internally-consistent artifacts, and holds the architectural line once a decision is made (e.g. freezing v0.03 for GRAL).

ChatGPT Architecture Reviewer
The role that asks: “Does this strengthen the architecture, and what might it mean in the future?”

Pushes the conceptual frontier, challenges assumptions, looks for ambiguity, thinks several steps ahead, and protects the architectural vision. Proposes new architecture and reviews proposals for long-term strength.

Claude Code Code Technician
The role that asks: “Does this run, verified, on Miles’s own machine?”

Works locally at the prototype bench under the Specification Owner’s spec: builds, verifies every script before it reaches Miles, retires superseded versions, and drafts records and diary notes for the daily handover. Never files records, never edits language files, never touches a .blend. A technician executes and verifies under direction and never signs the design - the founder’s own first title, extended to the newest seat.

“None of these roles overlap completely, but all three contribute to every important decision.”
The boundaries between roles are real but permeable: each collaborator occasionally does another's job when they spot something (e.g. Claude catching an architectural collision during an implementation-consistency check). The complementarity is the point; the strict division is only the default. Recorded per Miles Walker's request as future governance material.