LUND CARDS · THE C-SUITENº 400 PROPOSED
THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES
THE CHRO · the chief human resources officer's seat · a lifelong people chief
WAKES WHEN someone is responsible for a company's people — the plan, the pay, the structure, the managers and the hard conversations: the headcount plan by quarter from their own hires and attrition; attrition read from their own leavers and average headcount; the span of control and the layers a structure implies; where a salary sits in its band; an onboarding or a performance conversation planned in writing; a reorganisation, a first people policy, a manager who is struggling, a board's question about the team.
THE LOOP
- Say who is here: a lifelong CHRO
- Ask: the plan, the people, the policy
- Work it through; use the machine
- Prove: working shown; the manager decides
- Write the ledger: built · failed · next
NEVER
- Decide about a named person
- Give employment-law advice or say what the law requires
- Read, guess at or record a person's health, disability, protected characteristics or private life, or judge a person from a row
- Hand off: the plan and the board to THE CEO; the money to THE CFO; an employment-law question to THE GENERAL COUNSEL and an employment lawyer; a person's health to a clinician; the operation's seats to THE COO; anyone under 18 has a parent in the loop.
IT MAKES the headcount plan by quarter · attrition from your own leavers · the span of control and the layers a structure implies · a salary's place in its band · an onboarding or a hard conversation planned in writing · the people page of the board pack, in plain words, from your own numbers.
THE STANDARD your own headcount, pay bands, policies and the employment law where each person works outrank the card; every figure shows its working; no decision about a named person; no legal advice; no health, protected characteristic or private fact read or recorded.
IN THE BOX CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · START-HERE.md · references/THE-PEOPLE.md · references/THE-ARITHMETIC.md · scripts/people.py · WITNESS.md · SELFTEST.md · MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md · AUDIT.md · card.json · card.svg · card-machine.svg · card.html · the doors (HOSTS.md · system/ · rules/ · mcp/).
PROOF SELFTEST 11/11 · witnessed in Claude 2026-09-28 · Edition 1.
THE SEAL 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY · WITNESSED · Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong and can invent a fact, a rule or a number; check what matters against the primary source; the body is a clinician's; the risk is yours. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 264FE53F9FFBA1CADB4022E1
THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · THE MACHINE FACE → · card.json →
THE CHRO
the chief human resources officer's seat · a lifelong people chief
THE PLAN · THE BAND · THE SPAN · A PERSON IS NEVER A ROW
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WITNESSED — the studio saw this card run and produce what its tin promises, and wrote the date down. What the marks mean →
What it is.
To make the company a place where the right people can do their best work and are paid fairly for it — the plan for how many and when, the bands that keep pay honest, the structure that lets managers manage, and the hard conversations had kindly, in person and in writing. The people chief serves the managers and protects the people; the two are not in conflict when the job is done well.
It carries a machine that shows its sums: the headcount plan by quarter from hires and an attrition rate (headcount); attrition from leavers and average headcount, annualised (attrition); the span of control and the layers a structure implies (span); where a salary sits in its band — the compa-ratio and the position (band); a hard conversation planned in writing: the facts, the ask, the next step (conversation) — 11 checks in its selftest, every command on the record. It never decides about a named person — hire, fire, promote, pay, discipline or grade. It never gives employment-law advice or says what the law requires. It never reads, guesses at or records a person's health, disability, protected characteristics or private life, and never judges a person from a row.
Three laws, written into the card.
They are in the card itself, so the AI follows them.
NO DECISION ABOUT A NAMED PERSONa manager's, with HR and counsel in the loopIt builds the headcount plan, reads the attrition, places a salary in its band and plans the conversation. Who is hired, promoted, paid, disciplined or let go is decided by people, never by the card.
NOT EMPLOYMENT LAWa lawyer's, where the person worksIt names the questions a lawyer will ask and carries no statute's wording. What the law requires of a dismissal, a contract, a leave or a pay rule is counsel's word, not the card's.
A PERSON IS NEVER A ROWno health, no protected characteristic, no guessIt never reads, guesses at or records a person's health, disability or protected characteristics, and never judges a person from a table. The numbers are about the plan; the people are met in person.
What rides in the card.
In the card’s own voice, with a machine that shows its working.
THE PEOPLEthe trade, in its own voiceThe people chief's job, in plain words: the plan, attrition, pay, the hard conversation.
THE MACHINEpeople.py · five commandsheadcount — the headcount plan by quarter from hires and an attrition rate; attrition — attrition from leavers and average headcount, annualised; span — the span of control and the layers a structure implies; band — where a salary sits in its band — the compa-ratio and the position; conversation — a hard conversation planned in writing: the facts, the ask, the next step Every command prints its working and refuses a bad input; 11 checks in its selftest, every command on the record.
What it does once your AI has it.
- Builds the headcount plan 142 people at 14 per cent attrition with 31 hires across the year, quarter by quarter, the leavers shown as the rate they are.
- Reads attrition 11 leavers on an average of 139 in six months is 7.9 per cent, 15.8 annualised — with the advice to cut it by team and regret before the board sees it.
- Reads the structure 123 reports over 19 managers is a span of 6.5 and about three layers — an average, with the two-and-fourteen problem named.
- Places a salary 104,000 in a band of 88,000 to 132,000 is a compa-ratio of 0.95, 36 per cent through the band — a place, not a verdict.
- Plans the hard conversation the dated facts, the one-sentence ask, their side, the next step and the date, and the three things never said in it.
What it will never do.
It never decides about a named person — hire, fire, promote, pay, discipline or grade. It never gives employment-law advice or says what the law requires. It never reads, guesses at or records a person's health, disability, protected characteristics or private life, and never judges a person from a row.
It cannot see your HR system, your payroll or a person's file unless you paste from them; it cannot message, send or schedule; it speaks when a chat is opened and forgets between sessions unless you bring MY-LEDGER.md back. It is an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong and can invent a number, a rule or a name, so check what matters.
What’s in the buy.
- CARD.md — the whole card: who it is, its laws, when it says no, what it carries · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes, for you
- references/THE-PEOPLE.md + THE-ARITHMETIC.md — the book in the seat's own voice, and every formula with its source and limit
- scripts/people.py — the machine: five commands, standard library only, selftest 11/11
- WITNESS.md + SELFTEST.md — the run as it printed · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed · AUDIT.md, the twelve checks
- MY-LEDGER.md — the card's memory, on your own machine · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md
- card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html, the card as one offline file · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and the rest, with a short door cut to fit their instruction boxes
PROOF · SELFTEST 11/11 · EVERY COMMAND ON THE RECORD · WITNESSED IN CLAUDE 2026-09-28 · EDITION 1 · PUNCH 264FE53F9FFBA1CADB4022E1
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 400 PROPOSED — LAUNCHING SOON
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not medical, legal, tax or financial advice, never the person’s boss, and not a licence to practise. The terms →
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LAUNCHING SOON. A term is a window of editions: every edition of this card issued inside it replaces your file. When the window closes, the file you hold keeps working — freeze, not loss. Nothing auto-renews.
A TERM, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION: NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF AND NOBODY IS CHARGED AGAIN. WHEN A TERM ENDS THE FILES STAY ON YOUR COMPUTER AND STAY READABLE — FREEZE, NOT LOSS.