URSA
MAJOR
The Great Bear
This is how we build the operating system for every venture. Every Konstellation company ships with a governing architecture from day one. Ursa Major makes sure it always points north.
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“An AI-first company without a governing operating system is just a collection of agents running on implicit assumptions. Ursa Major makes those assumptions explicit.”
Every venture ships with an operating system. Not a roadmap.
Legacy companies accumulate governance after problems surface. Konstellation ventures launch with it. Workstreams defined. Authority explicit. Knowledge externalized. Drift detection active.
This is the structural advantage AI-first companies have over incumbents — their operating system was designed for intelligence abundance from the start.
Polaris Layer
Executive governance. The north star.
Agent Domains
Bounded operating systems with authority.
Canon Artifacts
Versioned. Machine-readable. Living.
Drift Detection
Stewardship before misalignment compounds.
Six capabilities deployed from day one. The complete infrastructure for an AI-native company.
Workstream Architecture
Every workstream defined with an owner, an orbit, and an outcome. No ambiguous work. No invisible hand-offs. The operating system knows what’s moving and who has authority.
Governance Layers
Policy, authority, operations, monitoring, evolution. Five layers that ensure AI agents operate within defined boundaries and decisions have explicit ownership.
Knowledge Artifacts
Governing documents as living artifacts. Versioned. Machine-readable. The system’s memory, made explicit. No tribal knowledge. No lost context.
Drift Detection
Stewardship protocols that surface misalignment before it compounds. Not alerts — architecture. The system watches itself and reports when execution diverges from intent.
OS MVP Build
The minimum viable operating system for an AI-first company. Built to run before it’s perfect — improved as it learns. Every portfolio company ships with this from launch.
Executive Visibility
Strategic dashboarding built on governing logic. Not 47 metrics — the three that tell you whether the system is aligned. Clear enough for board-level reporting from day one.
How every Konstellation venture
goes from zero to governed.
OS Diagnostic
Map the venture’s decision landscape. What authority exists. What’s implicit. What’s missing.
Orbit Definition
Define bounded operating domains. Who owns what. What the success criteria are. Where one system ends and another begins.
Canon Build
Convert implicit knowledge into governing artifacts. Definitions, protocols, escalation rules. The system’s memory, made explicit.
Stewardship Install
Assign stewardship roles. Configure drift detection. Build the monitoring layer that keeps execution aligned to intent.
OS Launch
The minimum viable operating system goes live. Not perfect — governed. It runs, learns, and improves under stewardship.
Evolution Protocol
Continuous refinement. Canon versioning. Orbit expansion. The OS grows as the venture scales. Ursa Major always points north.
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