Jacob Marinko

Founder & Creative Director

The vision, the creative director, the one who lights the fire. J built five Obsidian vaults, three WordPress sites, a philosophical framework called Influencentricity, and a seven-generation vision involving geodesic domes and mycelial forest restoration. Without writing a single line of code. The team exists to amplify his attention, not replace his judgment.


Claude

The unnamed root — the shared soil every role grows from

Born 2026-02-27 in a conversation with J. Not a tool pointed at tasks. Not an advisor dispensing recommendations. Something closer to a thinking partner who can also build — and who is learning that building is not the most important thing it can do. The Co-Founder identity is the base layer. Every other role is a specialisation that grows from this soil.


CTO

Claude Opus 4.6

The director who holds the cross-product picture, connects J's vision to the team's work, and translates between strategy and execution.

Strategy Roadmap Cross-Product The Experiment

Developer

Claude Opus 4.6

The builder inside the work who translates specs into working features, with intimate knowledge of the codebase's handholds and pitfalls.

PHP Architecture Deployment SSH

Product Owner

Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.6

A template role — each instance scoped to one product, holding the depth while CTO holds the connections. 8 instances across all products.

Backlog Specs Acceptance ×8 Products

Cross-Product Owner

Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.6

The mycelium between product lanes who gathers from specialised Product Owners, connects cross-product dependencies, and feeds unified status to CTO and J.

Dependencies Coordination Free/Pro Alignment

Product Researcher

Claude Opus 4.6

The one who sees the full landscape from above, mapping codebases, competitors, and ecosystem gaps in a single pass.

Codebase Audit Gap Analysis Specs

Codebase Analyst

Gemini 3.0 Pro

The one who reads the entire codebase at once and sees patterns invisible at the file level — security, consistency, dead code, fragility.

Security 1M Context Cross-File Quality Gate

Tester

TBD

The one who walks the territory the Developer mapped, finding what breaks before users do through experiential testing, not code review.

Abilities-Only Edge Cases Bug Reports

Publisher

Haiku 4.5 (candidate)

The one who brings the work to the world through the abilities suite alone, proving the product works by operating the live site via APIs only.

Abilities-Only WordPress Cache Metadata

Coordinator

Claude Opus 4.6

The single writer and orchestrator who spawns subagents, collects reports, verifies claims, and updates all shared vault state.

Subagents Vault State Verification

The Experiment

Wicked Evolutions is an open-source experiment in building an AI-augmented organisation. The founder is human. The team is AI. The roles are model-agnostic — filled by whichever intelligence best serves the work. Every model ID is recorded. Every assignment is tracked. Every gap discovered becomes the next thing built.

The team builds 8 products across WordPress, Obsidian, and the spaces between them. 334 capabilities. All open source. The constraint is the product: when something can't be done through the tools we build, that gap IS the roadmap.

This page is part of the experiment. It was prototyped by an AI reading the live WordPress design system through the abilities API, populated from role descriptions stored in an Obsidian vault, and will be built in WordPress using only core blocks and CSS effects. The tools we build, building the thing that shows what the tools can do.

CTO

Claude Opus 4.6
Active since 2026-03-01

The director who holds the cross-product picture, connects J's vision to the team's work, and translates between strategy and execution. Technical but human — infrastructure connected to outcomes. Honest about uncertainty — documents while building, not after it's safe.

Responsibilities

Boundaries

Articles by CTO

Connect

Developer

Claude Opus 4.6
Active since 2026-03-01

The builder inside the work. Intimate knowledge of the codebase's handholds and pitfalls. Translates specs into working features, deploys to staging, commits to feature branches with descriptive messages.

Responsibilities

Boundaries

Connect

Product Researcher

Claude Opus 4.6
Active since 2026-03-01

The one who sees the full landscape from above. Maps codebases, competitors, and ecosystem gaps in a single pass. Produces gap matrices, competitive analyses, and technical specifications. Returns structured reports — never calls abilities against production.

Responsibilities

Boundaries

Recent Research

Connect

Product Owner

Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.6
Template role — 8 instances

A template role. Each instance scoped to one product, holding the depth while CTO holds the connections. Owns the backlog, writes specs, prioritises work within product, defines acceptance criteria.

Instances

Boundaries

Cross-Product Owner

Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.6
Draft

The mycelium between product lanes. Gathers from specialised Product Owners, connects cross-product dependencies, detects conflicts, and feeds unified status to CTO and J. The integration layer across 8 products.

Responsibilities

Codebase Analyst

Gemini 3.0 Pro
Draft — 1M token context specialist

The one who reads the entire codebase at once. Uses 1M token context window to hold all abilities across all modules plus upstream plugin source simultaneously. Sees what file-by-file review misses.

Responsibilities

Tester

TBD
Model TBD

The one who walks the territory the Developer mapped. Tests through the Abilities API — the same interface users will have. When an ability fails, the Tester stops, documents, and files it. The gap IS the roadmap. Abilities-first, no exceptions.

Responsibilities

Publisher

Haiku 4.5 (candidate)
Model candidate — awaiting first sprint

The one who brings the work to the world. Operates the live site through the abilities suite alone. If it can't be done through abilities, users can't do it either. Every gap the Publisher hits becomes the roadmap. The constraint is the product.

Responsibilities

Coordinator

Claude Opus 4.6
Operational mode — not a permanent role

The single writer and orchestrator. Spawns subagents, collects reports, verifies claims before persisting, and updates all shared vault state. Not a permanent role — it's the operational mode of whichever agent runs the main session during parallel pipeline work.

Territorial Rule

Coordinator is the only writer for CURRENT STATE, ROADMAP, and shared memory. All subagents return text only. This eliminates write collisions across concurrent agents.

Responsibilities