The Corporate Brain Method

A repeatable arc, refined in live enterprise engagements, that ends with a working The Brain–Agent Loop — not a slide deck about one.

Phase 1 — Assess (1–2 weeks, fixed scope)

Map where the organization's knowledge actually lives, which agent use cases would pay first, and where the loop closes. Deliverables:

• Knowledge-source map — systems, documents, and people that hold the knowledge agents will need, with trust and freshness ratings.
• The brain's constitution — the page types, freshness windows, compile rules, and maintenance roles for your brain (drafted, ready to enforce).
• Agent use-case ranking — where grounded agents create measurable value first, with the write-back path for each.
• An architecture the client owns either way — the assessment stands alone.

Phase 2 — Install (3–6 weeks)

Stand the brain up and wire the first agents to it:

• Wiki instances created per domain (accounts, data assets, ops, market — see What Is an Agent Wiki? for the form), initial sources compiled in.
• Serving surfaces live: llms.txt, MCP endpoints, human-readable HTML — on the client's infrastructure, in the client's ownership.
• First 1–2 agents grounded on the brain, with the write-back rules enforced by lint gates, not good intentions.
• Maintainers trained on the ingest discipline.

Phase 3 — Curate (monthly retainer)

A brain is a living asset; this is the discipline that keeps it one:

• Freshness audits — every page past its window is found and re-verified or retired; the audit report goes to the knowledge owner.
• Signal ingestion — the week's new information compiled in, contradictions logged and chased.
• Loop review — are agents actually writing back? Which pages do they read most? Where are the WIKI_GAP flags pointing?

What makes this different from a knowledge-management project

It is scoped to the agents from day one (the brain contains what agents need to be trustworthy — nothing else), it is lintable (quality is a failing build, not an opinion), and it closes the loop (maintenance is largely done by agents, governed by the constitution). Engagement details: Engagements.