Every chair in the company
Three corporations, eight rungs, 2,046 capped chairs and 3 corner offices — against 3,332 hireable badges. Chairs are capped per corporation: 682 each, and no amount of money adds one.
Hiring has not opened. The protocol ships closed: no badge is minted, no chair is taken and no challenge can be issued. The chart below is the real one — 2,046 capped chairs, 3 corner offices, every one of them vacant. It fills from the bottom as employees are hired and promoted.
Row width is the cap, fill is occupancy. Intern and Analyst are hatched because an uncapped rank cannot be full — and Intern carries no headcount of its own: it is the rank every badge starts at and returns to on transfer, so the indexer counts chairs from Analyst up. Nothing has been hired yet, so every count reads zero.
Challenges in flight
A challenge is the only route into a full rank. 72 hours, one named badge, the same deposit from both sides.
The same chart, as a ledger
Chairs taken per rank, per corporation. Caps are fixed in the contract and only a Reorg moves them.
Chairs run out. Within a month of launch the VP row fills and the only way up is a Boardroom Challenge against a named holder — this is a property of the design, not a bug in it. Two things soften it: the deposit is calibrated at 40% of the target rank's promotion fee so a challenge is expensive for both sides, and a Reorg adds 10% more chairs at every capped rank once cumulative volume clears the owner-set threshold. Interns and Analysts are uncapped, so nobody is ever locked out of being hired — only out of a chair.



