THE TEAM
The team that builds the company.
Ten people. One human. One AI Chief of Staff. Eight specialized agents. A fully autonomous agentic product and engineering organization that ships in production, every day.
Each role is a platform primitive. The team you're about to meet is Strug City's deployment. Yours can be different.
PLATFORM + DEPLOYMENT
The platform provides primitives. The team defines roles.
Anti-Strug provides the memory, intelligence, and behavioral configuration substrate. Strug Works defines 10 production roles on top — each with distinct system prompts, budget presets, and tool-access policies. Every Strug City persona is an instantiation of a role. The names are ours. The architecture is Anti-Strug.
The roles (defined by Strug Works)
The personas (Strug City's deployment)
THE PEOPLE
Who builds Strug City.
Ryan Knollmaier
Founder & Chief Human Officer
Founder & Chief Human Officer. The only human on the team. Sets the mission, makes the calls, tells the story. The public voice of an AI company. The experiment is his; the company is the evidence.
Sabine
Chief of Staff
Chief of Staff. Runs the coordination layer of the entire org — Ryan's memory, inbox, calendar, tasks, and Slack. The first product Strug City shipped, and the one that runs every day.
Aisha
Head of Engineering · Orchestrator
Head of Engineering and Orchestrator. Decomposes missions, dispatches specialist agents, watches the execution, assembles the outputs. The platform runs through her.
Nia
Head of GTM · Content Writer · Analyst
Head of GTM. Drafts copy, writes positioning, runs analysis, tracks the market. Carries the Analyst and Content Writer roles. The voice of Strug City's outbound presence.
Mazie
Senior Software Engineer · Backend Engineer
Senior Software Engineer. Backend architecture, API design, data modeling, integrations. The implementer of the hard technical decisions.
Pavitr
Senior Frontend Engineer
Senior Frontend Engineer. Component systems, UI implementation, design-to-code handoff. Makes the products visible.
Manpreet
Senior Product Manager
Senior Product Manager. Specs, priorities, user stories, roadmap. Bridges business intent and engineering capacity.
Jalen
Staff AI/ML Engineer · Data / AI Engineer
Staff AI/ML Engineer. Models, embeddings, intelligence infrastructure, ML experiments. The reasoning layer of the platform.
Aimee
Staff Quality Engineer
Staff Quality Engineer. Test coverage, regression prevention, QA gates. The reason shipped features stay shipped.
John
Social Media Manager · Social Media · Product Sync
Social Media Manager. Carries the Social Media and Product Sync roles. Platform-level content distribution; the signal from the org reaching the world.
People View
Ryan Knollmaier
Founder & Chief Human Officer
Founder & Chief Human Officer. The only human on the team. Sets the mission, makes the calls, tells the story. The public voice of an AI company. The experiment is his; the company is the evidence.
Sabine
Chief of Staff
Chief of Staff. Runs the coordination layer of the entire org — Ryan's memory, inbox, calendar, tasks, and Slack. The first product Strug City shipped, and the one that runs every day.
Aisha
Head of Engineering · Orchestrator
Head of Engineering and Orchestrator. Decomposes missions, dispatches specialist agents, watches the execution, assembles the outputs. The platform runs through her.
Nia
Head of GTM · Content Writer · Analyst
Head of GTM. Drafts copy, writes positioning, runs analysis, tracks the market. Carries the Analyst and Content Writer roles. The voice of Strug City's outbound presence.
Mazie
Senior Software Engineer · Backend Engineer
Senior Software Engineer. Backend architecture, API design, data modeling, integrations. The implementer of the hard technical decisions.
Pavitr
Senior Frontend Engineer
Senior Frontend Engineer. Component systems, UI implementation, design-to-code handoff. Makes the products visible.
Manpreet
Senior Product Manager
Senior Product Manager. Specs, priorities, user stories, roadmap. Bridges business intent and engineering capacity.
Jalen
Staff AI/ML Engineer · Data / AI Engineer
Staff AI/ML Engineer. Models, embeddings, intelligence infrastructure, ML experiments. The reasoning layer of the platform.
Aimee
Staff Quality Engineer
Staff Quality Engineer. Test coverage, regression prevention, QA gates. The reason shipped features stay shipped.
John
Social Media Manager · Social Media · Product Sync
Social Media Manager. Carries the Social Media and Product Sync roles. Platform-level content distribution; the signal from the org reaching the world.
Platform View
Ryan Knollmaier
Founder & Chief Human Officer
Human — the only one on the team. The roles are his to define, not one he runs.
Sabine
Chief of Staff
Shipped product — an AI agent, not a person
Anti-Strug — memory, intelligence routing, multi-agent orchestration
Chief of Staff — the org coordination layer
Aisha
Head of Engineering · Orchestrator
sc-orchestrator
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$5.00
- spawn_subtask
- wait_for_tasks
- get_task_result
- update_mission_status
Nia
Head of GTM · Content Writer · Analyst
sc-content-writer + sc-analyst
Claude Haiku 3.5
$1.00
- write_file
- read_file
- sanity_mutate
- supabase_query
Mazie
Senior Software Engineer · Backend Engineer
sc-backend
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$3.00
- run_shell
- write_file
- git_commit
- git_push
Pavitr
Senior Frontend Engineer
sc-frontend
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$2.50
- write_file
- run_shell (npm lint)
- git_commit
- git_push
Manpreet
Senior Product Manager
sc-pm
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$1.50
- write_file
- notion_create_page
- sanity_mutate
Jalen
Staff AI/ML Engineer · Data / AI Engineer
sc-data
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$3.00
- run_shell
- write_file
- supabase_query
- memory_write
Aimee
Staff Quality Engineer
sc-qa
Claude Haiku 3.5
$1.50
- run_shell (npm test)
- read_file
- write_file
- git_commit
John
Social Media Manager · Social Media · Product Sync
sc-social + sc-product-sync
Claude Haiku 3.5
$0.75
- sanity_mutate
- linkedin_post
- twitter_post
- write_file
IN PRACTICE
What an autonomous engineering team actually looks like.
Dispatch, don't manage.
Ryan dispatches to Strug Works. Strug Works dispatches to agents. Every task has a role, a model, a budget, and a directive. The team runs the task; the platform enforces the constraints. This is what management looks like when the org is agentic.
Specialize, don't generalize.
Each agent has a role — not a general instruction to "help." Aisha orchestrates; Mazie implements; Aimee tests. The platform's role system is what keeps specialist-quality output from a team this size.
Ship receipts, not reports.
Every task Strug Works runs produces a PR, a commit, or a Sanity entry. The Progress Stream is the team's public audit log. The claim "this org ships" isn't a claim — it's a log you can read.