MINION ERP
How a flexible assistant became an agent-native operating system for business work.
An annotated reconstruction of the pressures, decisions, boundaries, and residual seams behind MINION. Code and dated history establish what shipped; specifications explain the intent without being mistaken for runtime fact.
THE FIRST EDITION.
How an AI assistant became an agentic ERP
How an AI assistant evolved into an agentic ERP with organization-scoped records, permissions, workflows, conversations, and operational boundaries.
Master data management: a person is not a contact row
Why master data management and a shared party model became the center of customers, conversations, invoices, bookings, support, and project work.
Enterprise RAG: how the agentic ERP learned to remember
An enterprise RAG architecture for organization-scoped memory, source provenance, hybrid retrieval, freshness controls, and narrow agent access.
Building an agentic software factory: from request to deployment
How MINION turns requests into reviewed specifications, isolated agent runs, tested pull requests, policy-gated releases, operational memory, and measurable software delivery.