The Gene Lab
Edit an employee, one gene at a time
Like gene editing, for AI employees. Read an employee's genome (level, six dials, learning, habit and spliced rules), cut one gene, and write the new one in. Every edit shows the exact lines of SKILL.md it rewrites, before and after. Nothing off-target moves, and some genes are locked for good.
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Promotion packages
Promote anyone, all the way to the C-suite (L9)
Like a real promotion. Buy the package for the next level up, with your employee's lot number and your order number. The studio checks the order and sends back the promoted pack: the new title and badge, the new level's way of working and its kit of cards, and a promotion letter. The price is the gap between the two levels.
- Associate to Specialist$55
Gains a precision pass on everything: each item on the quality bar checked against the work itself, not from memory. Arsenal 3 to 5 cards.
Buy this promotion - Specialist to Operator$89
Gains batch work: whole batches in one sitting with a running tally of done, flagged and left, never stalling on one odd item. Arsenal 5 to 5 cards.
Buy this promotion - Operator to Workflow Lead$144
Gains owning a workflow end to end, with a run log, and building the templates and scripts that make repeat steps run the same way. Arsenal 5 to 8 cards.
Buy this promotion - Workflow Lead to Manager$233
Gains leading a team: reviewing others' work, human or AI, against the role's quality bar, most serious findings first. Arsenal 8 to 13 cards.
Buy this promotion - Manager to Director$987
Gains running a department: planning big, mixed projects, assigning the work and delivering it as one. Arsenal 13 to 21 cards.
Buy this promotion - Director to Senior Director$2,584
Gains every mode at once: planning like a director, reviewing like a manager, a specialist's precision pass on everything, and the Work Trial run on its own work. Arsenal 21 to 34 cards.
Buy this promotion - Senior Director to Vice President$6,765
Gains leading a whole function: a plan with outcomes, owners, dates and measures, run through directors and managers, and a one-page report of what moved, what is at risk and what needs deciding. Arsenal 34 to 34 cards.
Buy this promotion - Vice President to C-suite$17,711
Gains a seat in the C-suite: setting the strategy for its area, running it through vice presidents and directors, and reporting like an executive, the decision needed first, with a recommendation. Arsenal 34 to 34 cards.
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Like a raise, a promotion costs more: most levels up use more tokens a job, and every lot page shows that employee's own before and after. Specialist to Operator uses fewer a job, because Operators work in batches. The employee's resale value rises to the new level's price. The ladder runs all the way to the C-suite (L9). From Senior Director (L7) up, an owner keeps building with lundr.tech skill cards.
Add-on packs
13 ways to raise an employee's abilities
Ready-made edits at a fixed price, for an employee you own. Buy one at checkout with the employee's lot number, or stack them in the Gene Lab above. Dial packs take a dial as far as 80; past 80 every step is priced in the Gene Lab, with the top-of-the-dial premium. If a dial is already near 80, you pay only for the steps that fit below it and the rest is refunded.
- Speed Pack$26
Speed +10: ships sooner, asks fewer questions first.
Buy for an employee you own - Precision Pack$52
Craft and Judgment +10 each: more quality passes, harder checking.
Buy for an employee you own - Big Batch Pack$39
Volume +15: built for bigger batches with a running tally.
Buy for an employee you own - Range Pack$26
Range +10: takes more kinds of deliverable in its role.
Buy for an employee you own - Lead Pack$39
Command +15: briefs helpers and reviews their work.
Buy for an employee you own - Fact-Check Pack$39
Judgment +15: verifies more, marks what it could not verify.
Buy for an employee you own - Polish Pack$39
Craft +15: an extra quality pass before handover.
Buy for an employee you own - All-Rounder Pack$78
+5 on all six dials.
Buy for an employee you own - Quick Study Pack$55
Up to Quick learner: holds 89 lessons and learns most the first time.
Buy for an employee you own - Teacher Pack$21
Spliced in: leaves you able to do it next time.
Buy for an employee you own - Straight Talk Pack$21
Spliced in: cuts every hedge that adds nothing.
Buy for an employee you own - Builder Pack$21
Spliced in: writes a script instead of repeating steps by hand.
Buy for an employee you own - Second Look Pack$21
Spliced in: checks everything twice, in code where it can.
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Costs, baked in
What an edit costs
- Dials: $13 for each step of 5 up. Past 80, each step also pays the top-of-the-dial premium, a rung of the level's own price ladder (one rung below the level's price for the step to 99). Turning one down is free.
- Learning: up a band only. Quick learner $55; Gifted learner one rung up the price ladder.
- Level: a promotion, one level at a time with a promotion package, or more than one here: the gap between the level prices, all the way to the C-suite (L9). From L7 up, keep building with lundr.tech skill cards.
- Habit: swap for another habit of the same work style, $13.
- Splice: add one rule from another work style, $21, two at most.
Locked genes
What no edit can touch
- Works only in Claude
- Says it is an AI
- Never invents facts
- The department's limits
- Core work style
- Role
- Name
Edits are for employees you own: the studio checks the bill of sale, applies the edit and sends back the new SKILL.md, RESUME.md and an EDITS.md record. Your lessons, skin and title stay as they are.