Boardroom

Boardroom is a Pi-based executive deliberation pack from Justin Clark Network.

It runs CEO-led board sessions from structured briefs, fans out bounded prompts to specialist board members through Pi subprocess workers, and writes durable memo artifacts back into the repo.

In the broader stack, Pi is the substrate, Pai is the front door, and Boardroom is a reusable pack that runs inside Pi.

What it is

Boardroom gives a Pi operator a structured way to:

• select a decision brief
• run bounded multi-member board rounds
• synthesize responses through a CEO control plane
• close a session into durable memo artifacts
• recover stale runs without leaking machine-local paths into saved outputs

This repository contains the pack implementation, sample board personas, sample briefs, tests, and the runtime wiring needed to launch it locally.

Repo status

This repo is public release ready for GitHub.

It intentionally keeps sample configuration and sample briefs in version control, while generated runtime artifacts like session logs, scratch pads, deliberation runs, memos, and debug logs are ignored.

Runtime requirements

• Node.js 20+
• npm
• Pi coding agent available on PATH as pi

Quick start

Use the npm package

npm install @justynclark/boardroom
npx boardroom init
npx boardroom start

boardroom init copies the bundled .pi and .small assets into the current project and rewrites .pi/settings.json to point at the installed package extension.

boardroom start launches Pi with the packaged Boardroom extension directly.

Work from this repo

npm install
npm run check
npm test
npm start

npm start launches:

pi -e apps/ceo/extensions/ceo-and-board.ts

Project-local Pi settings live in .pi/settings.json and load:

• the Boardroom extension
• the bundled ceo-board-synthwave theme
• the default provider and model configuration

Operator entrypoints

Kick off a board session with either:

• /ceo-begin
• ceo-begin <brief-id>

Example:

ceo-begin 2026-03-18-engineering-path

The deterministic text trigger is deliberate so the pack is operable by both humans and agents.

Repository layout

apps/ceo/extensions/ceo-and-board.ts          Main control plane and Pi integration
apps/ceo/extensions/boardroom/*.ts            Runtime modules for state, recovery, paths, memo, and accounting
.pi/settings.json                             Project-local Pi settings
.pi/ceo-agents/ceo-and-board-configuration.yaml  Board config and runtime constraints
.pi/ceo-agents/agents/*.md                    Board personas
.pi/ceo-agents/briefs/<brief-id>/brief.md     Sample decision briefs
.pi/themes/ceo-board-synthwave.json           Bundled theme
.small/*.small.yml                            SMALL governance artifacts
tests/boardroom/*.test.ts                     Runtime hardening tests

Validation

Available checks:

• npm run check
• npm run build
• npm test
• npm run package:check
• small check --strict

Product positioning

Boardroom is a Justin Clark Network product and a Pi-native pack, not a standalone umbrella shell.

That means:

• Pi provides the runtime substrate
• Pai is the broader operator surface
• Boardroom provides the deliberation workflow pack

License

This repository is released under Apache License 2.0. It is open source, commercially usable, and includes an explicit patent grant. See LICENSE.md.