Örlög — a Skald product

The pattern is laid down first.
Everything else grows from it.

A guided interview about how your business actually works, and a complete multi-agent architecture in return — named roster, governance, cost guards, and the order to build them in.

Free to complete. You only pay if you want the document.

Before you answer anything

Nobody buys a document they have never seen. So here is the shape of one.

Pick whichever business is closest to yours. These are worked examples, not output from your answers — but they are the real structure, at the real level of detail.

Closest to your business

A roster of this shape

Eir

Support replies · build first

Drafts answers from your own course material, and cites the page it used

Heimdall

Inbox triage

Sorts the overnight pile into three stacks before you open your laptop

Snotra

Billing sorter

Batches pause and refund requests into one list you clear in a sitting

Bragi

Repurposing

Turns the newsletter you already wrote into the week of captions

Norse theme · 4 agents · sized to a $150/month budget · hub and spoke

To be straight with you: yours will not look like any of these. That is the point — the roster comes out of your own walkthrough of your own worst task, which is why the interview asks for one. It takes under ten minutes, and the document is built while you wait.

Örlög

or·lög · Old Norse

In Old Norse, örlög is the primal law — the foundational layers laid down at the beginning, before anything grows. Ör, original. Lög, law, layers, the same root as our word law.

It is what the Norns draw from when they carve a person’s fate. The wyrd is the living weave, always moving. The örlög is the pattern underneath it — the terms set down first, from which everything else unfolds.

Which is exactly what you are handed here. The roster, the governance, the constraints, decided before anything runs. The blueprint is your örlög. The business you build on it becomes your wyrd.

The method

Most AI advice is a list of tools.
This is a set of rules learned the expensive way.

There is a version of this product that reads your answers and returns something confident and generic — six agents with sensible names, a paragraph each, nothing you could not have written yourself after an afternoon of reading. That version is easy to build and worth nothing.

The difference is in what the system refuses to do. Every agent you are given carries an explicit list of what it is not responsible for, drawn from the red lines you named. Every one has a rule for what happens on a bad day — when the tool is down, when the answer is not in your material, when the question is one it should not touch.

An agent that ends its turn having produced nothing is how work silently stops. An agent that invents an answer to avoid that is worse.

That principle, and the dozen behind it, came out of running a real multi-agent system in production — the escalation caps, the spend breakers, the roster design rules. Not theory. Encoded operational experience, applied to your business rather than a hypothetical one.

What arrives

Nine sections. All of them about your business, none about AI in general.

01

The roster

Three to seven named agents. Charter, inputs, outputs, and what each one must never do — the field that stops an agent drifting into work you would never have given it.

02

Governance

How they coordinate, what happens when one fails, the escalation cap that stops a stuck loop becoming an invoice, and where you stay in the loop.

03

Cost guards

A per-task ceiling, a daily breaker, and a three-month forecast. Real numbers you can set today, not a range.

04

The implementation kit

Click-by-click setup for your technical level, the exact first message to send each agent, and what a good answer back looks like.

05

The build order

Thirty, sixty, ninety days — starting with the single agent that buys back the most time, and nothing else until that one works.

The honest comparison

You already have three options. All of them cost you something.

Including the row where this one loses.

Free tutorialsA consultantTrial and errorÖrlög
CostsNothing$10,000+Months, plus API spend$99–$555
Fits your businessNo — written for everyoneYesEventuallyYes — built from your own answers
Says what agents must not doRarelyIf you askYou find out the hard wayEvery agent, every time
Sets spend limitsNoSometimesNoThree real numbers, sized to your budget
Someone to ask afterwardsNoYesNoOn the reviewed tier, yes
Builds it for youNoYesYou are building itNo — you get the plan, not the system
Rachel Hansen · Skald

Who made this

I built an AI system inside a company, watched it get killed, and rebuilt it so nobody could do that again.

The methodology behind Örlög is not a framework I read about. It is what was left after running a multi-agent system through real operational pressure — the rules that held, and the ones that had to be added after something broke.

That is also why the document tells you what it cannot do. I would rather sell you something honest about its limits than something impressive that leaves you stuck in week two.

— Rachel

What it costs

Run it yourself, or run it with us.

Every tier gets the full architecture. What changes is how much of the standing-up you do alone.

Blueprint

$149

The full architecture, and everything you need to stand it up yourself.

  • ·Complete architecture document
  • ·Named agent roster with charters, exclusions, and hard constraints
  • ·Governance layer and cost guard framework
  • ·Implementation Kit matched to your technical level
  • ·30/60/90 build order

Blueprint+

$249

Everything above, plus the prompts you will actually use every day.

  • ·Everything in Blueprint
  • ·Ready-to-paste system prompt for every agent
  • ·All three implementation tracks
  • ·90-day roadmap

Reviewed

$555

Blueprint+ with a written pass from Rachel, and one revision.

  • ·Everything in Blueprint+
  • ·Rachel's written review and annotations
  • ·One revision pass

5 per week — a real calendar

Guided Setup

By request

We build the first agent together, and shape the engagement around what you actually need. It starts with a conversation rather than a checkout page.

Questions

The ones worth answering honestly.

How long does the whole thing take?

The interview is fourteen questions and most people finish in under ten minutes. The document is generated while you wait — a minute or two — and you can close the tab; it finishes without you and is there when you come back.

Does it run the agents for me?

No. Örlög generates the architecture — nothing to host, nothing that breaks at two in the morning. You get the plan and the setup instructions.

What if I am not technical at all?

That is the default. The interview asks your comfort level and the setup instructions change accordingly — the no-code track is click-by-click, with the exact first message to send each agent.

What if my answers are not very good?

Then we will not write you a document. If there is not enough there to build something specific, you get one follow-up question rather than something generic. That is a deliberate choice and it costs us sales.

The interview is free. Start there.

You will see your agents named, and your own business restated back to you, before any card comes out. If that restatement does not sound like your business, do not pay us.

Begin the interview