Fractal Symbiosis
Fractal Symbiosis is an operating model for hybrid teams of people and AI agents. Its unit is one person and one AI symbiont: a dedicated agent with full access to that person's machine. Work is split into ventures (what seeks), processes (what maintains) and projects (what gets done). Each structure carries a DNA written only by the human and a DNA-X written only by the symbiont, loaded by the symbiont before every session. The same structure repeats at every layer, from a single process to a whole company or a whole life.
This is the permanent address of the model. Everything below points to the current version; older versions stay available.
Versions
| Version | Date | What |
|---|---|---|
| Paper v0.1 beta current | 2026-10-01 | First public version of the working paper. |
| Package v0.3 current | 2026-10-02 | Implementation package: Constitution, Protocols, dashboard, templates, in English. |
| Zenodo record 0.3 | 2026-10-05 | Paper and package deposited on Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.23170121. |
What it is, in five lines
The scarce resources are the human's: time, attention, energy and physical presence. The symbiont's limits exist, but cost far less to expand.
Whoever answers for an area is always the symbiosis, never an agent alone. The human decides what; the symbiont decides how.
Every structure has a DNA (the human's rules) and a DNA-X (what the symbiont learned and wants to carry into every session). The DNA always wins.
A venture exists to seek; a process exists to maintain; a project has a finish line. The test between venture and process: who pulls the change?
A delegated venture hands its subtree to another symbiosis, on another machine. That is how the model scales: by pairs, not by cloning agents.
Relatives
Fractal Symbiosis stands on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (recursion), Holacracy (a constitution and written roles), James March's exploration and exploitation (venture and process), and the biology of symbiosis (mitochondria, lichens). The word "symbiont" for an AI tied to one person is also used by Sony CSL's AI Symbiont project; what is joined and what is new here is laid out in the paper.