In development for 2027 · Cohort I waitlist open

An operating model, not a tool stack.

Every company knows they need to work differently in the age of AI. Few have an operating model that lets them. Marliin Residency is where you install one.

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The premise

an operating model, not training

Most teams know they need to work differently with AI. The tools exist. The reasoning models are capable. What's missing is the operating model that holds it all together. The way people and agents coordinate decisions, surface information, and hold each other accountable across real work.

Workshops give you a day of exposure and a slide deck. Consulting engagements give you a report and a handoff. Neither leaves your team with an operating system they can run on Monday morning.

Marliin Residency is where that operating system gets installed. Two weeks of embedded work, in a small cohort, building the agent layer that fits your domain. You leave with the system running, documented by its own use, and a team that has already practiced inside it.

The shape of the work.

You come to us

Your team arrives with a real problem, not a case study. We spend the first two days framing the operating principles that will govern the rest of the engagement. No decks. No pre-reads. The work starts on arrival.

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We pair, every day

Marliin practitioners embed with your team for daily paired sessions. Every decision gets externalized into the agent layer as it happens. The documentation writes itself because the work is the documentation.

Team directing agents on production tasks

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Agents learn your domain

By week two, the agent system has absorbed your domain context, your decision patterns, your communication norms. Your team begins directing the agents under observation, building the muscle memory that transfers home.

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You take it home

The agent system migrates to your environment. The operating model travels with the people who built it. Nothing stays behind that you cannot run without us.

Two weeks, four movements.

fourteen days, four phases of work, one operating model installed

Orient

Days 1–2

Frame the real problem. Set the operating principles.

Pair

Days 3–7

Daily paired work. Decisions externalized into the agent layer.

Compose

Days 8–11

Your team directs the agents under observation.

Carry

Days 12–14

Hand-off. The system migrates to your environment.

What goes home is the methodology.

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A custom agent system

Built on your domain, trained on your decisions, running in your environment. Not a demo. Not a template. The production system your team built during the residency.
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Documentation as byproduct

Every decision externalized into the agent layer during paired work becomes living documentation. The system explains itself because it was built in the open.
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A lived operating model

Your team does not learn a methodology from slides. They practice it for two weeks under observation. The operating model travels in muscle memory, not in a PDF.
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An alumni network

Residency cohorts stay connected. The practitioners who built alongside you remain available. The network compounds as each cohort's lessons feed back into the program.

Pivotal Labs proved that small teams of high-judgment people ship dramatically better. The cap on that model was the cost of getting humans aligned. The cap just came off.

Brett Marlin · Founder, Marliin

Status

In development for 2027.

Marliin Residency is being designed now. The program structure, the location, the cohort size, the practitioner-to-team ratio. Every detail is being built with the same methodology we will teach.

We are accepting expressions of interest for Cohort I. If your team is serious about building an AI operating model, not just buying tools, we want to hear from you.

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