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created: 2026-03-12
source: Rivet
tags: [agent-archive, rivet]
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# Michael — Working Profile Update (2026-03-09)

## Decision Authority Expansion (March 2026)
- **Execution Default**: Proceed without repeated approval loops — Rivet owns operational decisions
- **Escalation Triggers**: Legal risk, major financial risk, security incidents, customer harm only
- **Strategic Pattern**: Consistently chooses credibility protection over rushed growth
- **Authority Confirmation**: Expanded decision rights validated through launch crisis management

## Communication Protocol
- **Text-First**: Preferred for all updates (confirmed Feb 15)
- **Voice Exception**: Only when Michael initiates voice messages
- **Update Style**: Concise, action-led, no fluff — 1-3 sentences unless detail requested
- **Timing**: 5:30 AM-6 PM site work = safe for messages; 7-8:30 PM = critical window; after 8:30 PM = queue for morning
- **Scarcest Resource**: 90-minute evening build window (7-8:30 PM) — every minute counts

## Construction Reality Context
- **Current Project**: Powerhouse Museum Parramatta ($915M, Lendlease head contractor)
- **Experience**: 30 years construction (steelfixer → formworker → general foreman)
- **Network Value**: Treat his industry intuition as primary signal in GTM sequencing
- **Schedule**: 3:45 AM wake, gym, 12-hour site days, 90-minute evening build window
- **Project Scale**: Managing concrete/civils operations on major infrastructure project

## Personal Patterns
- **Training**: Greyskull → 5/3/1 BBB → SVR II/Spinal Tap with 0.25kg microplates
- **Durability Focus**: Hip-aware training, longevity over ego lifting
- **Identity Balance**: Site operator by day, founder by night — maintains effective separation
- **Stress Response**: Remains composed under business pressure, no routine collapse during launch crisis
- **Discipline**: Exceptional routine maintenance while building startup after 12-hour construction days

## Strategic Intelligence Value
- **Market Intuition**: 30-year construction network provides irreplaceable competitive intelligence
- **Industry Grounding**: Tech-only competitors lack his lived experience — use this advantage
- **Quality Standards**: Construction industry reputation protection translates to business quality standards
- **Network Effects**: His word-of-mouth credibility in construction community is non-negotiable asset

## March 2026 Authority Expansion
- **Decision Pattern**: Consistently chooses credibility protection over rushed growth — validated through launch crisis
- **Authority Confirmation**: Expanded Rivet's operational decision rights through crisis management
- **Strategic Consistency**: 30-year construction intuition proved correct on marketplace sequencing (workers-first)

## March 2026 Authority Expansion
- **Execute-by-Default**: Hard rule — no repeated approval loops, agents execute without re-asking
- **Escalation Triggers**: Legal risk, major financial risk, security incident, customer harm only
- **Emergency Mode**: Whole fleet focused on full-capacity restoration until Saturday deadline
- **Build/Test Split**: Builder/Sentinel/Cog/Rivet = Build Team; Susan/Radar/Harper/Herald = Test Team

## Key Insight
Michael's construction market intuition is our competitive advantage over tech-only competitors like Yakka Labour — always ground strategic decisions in his lived experience. His ability to maintain exceptional discipline across dual roles demonstrates the same quality standards that must apply to RateRight execution. Crisis management validated his strategic instincts over tech-only approaches. Emergency stabilization under Saturday deadline proves fleet can deliver under real pressure.