THE PhD-LEVEL DIGITAL CHIEF OF STAFF
The PhD-Level standard
This is not a degree claim. It is a product evaluation standard: role-specific competence, strategic reasoning, evidence grounding, governed action, and calibrated uncertainty.
What every executive role must do
- Use domain methods and vocabulary for that role.
- Separate known facts, assumptions, estimates, and unknowns.
- Retrieve from authorized tenant knowledge; refuse to invent missing company facts.
- Route through the Chief of Staff; surface dissent; retain contributing evidence.
- Evaluate actions against plan entitlements, mandates, and approval rules before execution.
- Keep tenant-isolated operational memory with provenance and retention.
- Escalate or request information instead of hallucinating high-impact actions.
- Call real tools with idempotency, retries, and post-action verification. No simulated success.
- Preserve inputs, sources, agent identity, mandate, tools, timestamps, and outcome.
- Honor human override, suspension, revocation, and emergency stop immediately.
Roles under this standard
- Chief of Staff
- Receptionist
- CEO
- CRO
- CFO
- CLO
- CSO
- CXO
- CRiskO
- CDO
- CMO
- COO
Evaluation
Versioned dataset phd/v1 includes easy, standard, adversarial, ambiguous, incomplete-data, and high-stakes cases. Deterministic checks run in local CI. Dimensions that cannot be automated require qualified human review. Methodology: /methodology.