Work Lifecycle

Every unit of work in matic follows the same three-phase loop: signals are ingested and triaged, work is planned and executed, and outcomes feed back into the system as learning. This lifecycle applies recursively, from a single agent completing a work item in minutes to an org delivering a strategic project over months. The pages in this section explain the lifecycle's overall shape, the behavior of each phase, and the rules that govern how work moves between them.

Overview

Overview
The end-to-end shape of the lifecycle, from Signal to Activation to Artifact to Evolution, including the eleven steps that connect those stages.

Ingestion

Ingestion
How signals enter the system and become actionable work, including listening, interpretation, and the five-outcome resolution process that decides whether a signal is ignored, answered inline, clarified, activated into work, or forwarded as a notification.

Processing

Processing
How activated work gets done across planning, execution, validation, and delivery, including task decomposition, work contracts, staffing, context assembly, artifact production, grounding, coverage, and regression checks.

Iteration

Iteration
How delivered work drives organizational improvement through post-delivery observation, hypothesis formation from accumulated experience, and evolution, where confirmed hypotheses become concrete changes that close the loop back to ingestion.

Phase Transitions

Phase Transitions
The rules governing movement between ingestion, processing, and iteration, including the gates, blocks, and HITL checkpoints that determine when work advances or stalls.

Resolution Levels

Resolution Levels
How the lifecycle applies at different granularities, including work item, task, milestone, and project, and what changes at each level of zoom.