> root@byfrost-lab:~# run_mandate.exe

The Bridge Is Open.

You are no longer on the KATARSES site. You are not in the "Structure."
You are in the "Laboratory."

This isn't a subsidiary. It’s a living research methodology. It's the Manhattan Project for creativity.

We are the proof of the KATARSES thesis: what happens when you give brilliant minds unlimited resources, zero commercial pressure, and a divine mandate to break reality?

KATARSES builds the fortress. We light the fire inside.

Our Social Contract (It's Radical)

The Mandate

Let's be clear: the 100% profit-share model isn't "generosity." It’s *design*.

Commercial pressure is poison to pure innovation. "Crunch" is a failure of imagination. Byfrost-Lab is a Level-5 biosecurity experiment to remove that poison.

KATARSES (The Wall) absorbs 100% of the financial risk. We, the Alchemists, have 100% focus on the *creative* risk.

The Result

This means we have no *Product Owners* saying "this won't sell."

We have no *Executives* asking to "make the logo bigger."

We have no *Shareholders* demanding a Q4 launch because the stock dipped.

We have only one question:

"Is that impossible? Good. When do we start?"

Sacred Chaos

"Culture" at KATARSES is about Focus and Structure. Ours is about Flow and Ignition.

We operate as a permanent "skunkworks." Small teams. Iteration cycles that last hours, not weeks. And an obsession with "ugly prototypes" that prove a concept.

We are given permission to fail.

In fact, we *demand* it. If we aren't failing spectacularly on a regular basis, we aren't pushing the boundary hard enough. If a project doesn't work, we celebrate it, dissect it in a public post-mortem, and use it as fuel for the next one.

There is no formal hierarchy. There is only "Idea Ownership."

The Bridge Diary (Work-in-Progress)

This isn't news. It's a living log. Our work-in-progress, raw and unfiltered.

[snippet.txt] // 10.11.2025:15:30:04

"The fluid dynamics sim in 'Project AURA' broke again. The AI is 'hallucinating' fractal geometry instead of water. It’s beautiful. We're keeping it."

[audio_log_009.mp3] // 09.11.2025:22:47:01

"Thought for the day: What if the narrative isn't linear, or branching, but... *quantum*? Where every choice co-exists until the player 'observes' the ending?"

[FAILED_BUILD_09A] // 08.11.2025:17:00:54

"'Project K' was shelved today. Lesson: the human brain hates 4 spatial dimensions. We're trying 5. The funeral is Friday."

You Don't Work Here. You Belong Here.

We don’t post "jobs." We issue "callings."

That email (`contact@katarses.com`) is for the Structure. It’s for partnerships. It’s for the Wall.

If you want to talk to the Alchemists... you have to find us where we are.

[Solve the Riddle]

Don't send us a resume. Resumes are for the past.

Send us your broken work. Send us the manifesto you wrote at 3 AM. Send us the prototype you think no one in the world would understand.

We will understand.