“Maintaining startup culture at 150 employees”

At 15 people, culture transmits through proximity. At 150, it transmits through systems. People-centric management theory recognises that the purpose of management is not to control people but to make people effective — and that requires active cultural enforcement.

This query belongs to the Culture Dilution at Scale pain category — Humanity erosion — the founder used to know everyone's name. Now A-players are diluted by B and C-players. The startup's radical transparency is replaced by corporate theater.

The culture_integrity workflow governs a structured consultation with the The People Strategist agent (Chief Human Resources Officer). When activated, the Agent Operating System pre-loads the context and begins analyzing the crisis before a single word is typed.