# Thinking with a Wardley map, a collection, sgit.ai > Six articles that place something on the evolution axis, from genesis to commodity, and argue from where it sits. *Source: · site v0.6.90 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../index.md) / [Articles](../index.md) / [Collections](index.md) / Thinking with a Wardley map Collection · 6 articles · curated by the [Historian](../../newsroom/roles/historian.md) · updated 2026-10-07 # Thinking with a Wardley map Six articles that place something on the evolution axis, from genesis to commodity, and argue from where it sits. None of these articles is about Wardley maps. Each one reaches for the same move at the point where its argument needs it: place the thing on the evolution axis, genesis, custom-built, product, commodity, and read the consequence off where it sits. Read together, they show the map doing four different jobs. - **As a drawing with its source.** [The Mandate Stack](../../articles/the-mandate-stack.md) draws two maps of one agent team, one from a person outside it and one from inside, and publishes the source next to each render so the placements can be argued with. - **As a rule for how much care a change gets.** [If somebody built a company on code review](../../articles/if-somebody-built-a-company-on-code-review.md) answers a reader's questions about depth and cost with where the changed thing sits: explorers, villagers and town planners review differently. - **As a life cycle for interfaces.** [Custom UIs are not the exception](../../articles/custom-uis-are-not-the-exception.md): the first interface for a thing is genesis, the fifth is a product with a name. - **As a life cycle for a body of writing.** [How much of this did I write?](../../articles/how-much-of-this-did-i-write.md) places twenty years of posts, books and talks on the same axis, and finds the agent is fast because the record has commoditised. - **As inertia.** [The SaaS apocalypse](../../articles/saas-apocalypse-decided-by-inertia-not-by-ai.md) and [the deck I could not download](../../articles/the-deck-i-could-not-download.md) both turn on Wardley's climatic pattern that past success breeds inertia, applied once to software incumbents and once to a twenty-year-old service. The maps themselves live at [wardley-maps.sgit.ai](https://wardley-maps.sgit.ai/), whose thesis these articles share: a map is a claim, not a picture. ## The articles [2026-10-06Agents & policy22 threads**The Mandate Stack: a multi-agent system in production, layer by layer**A multi-agent system that runs a business every few hours: eight layers, one written mandate per agent, everything a graph, one human who sends.](../../articles/the-mandate-stack.md)[2026-10-01Graphs & knowledge15 threads**Custom UIs are not the exception: the inbox in 2026, where every message has its own universe**Every message has a graph, so it can be shaped for the reader's moment; a custom interface per moment is now how interfaces get made, and each gets a policy.](../../articles/custom-uis-are-not-the-exception.md)[2026-10-05Graphs & knowledge7 threads**How much of this did I write? The numbers behind twenty articles in four weeks, and what the input actually was**Twenty articles in four weeks, measured from the session record: 63,000 words in, 85,000 out, no one-line prompts, and the real input is twenty years of writing.](../../articles/how-much-of-this-did-i-write.md)[2026-10-05Graphs & knowledge11 threads**If somebody built a company on code review: how I would do it, and why it is only now possible**A reader's seven questions answered as a company plan: one reader for every layer, review as a science, and the layers as the customer's own.](../../articles/if-somebody-built-a-company-on-code-review.md)[2026-09-21Startups & strategy3 threads**The SaaS apocalypse will be decided by inertia, not by AI**Incumbents and newcomers have the same AI; what separates them is how much past success each has to protect, so inertia decides which SaaS companies survive.](../../articles/saas-apocalypse-decided-by-inertia-not-by-ai.md)[2026-10-06Startups & strategy6 threads**The deck I could not download: an author-first home for presentations, as a business plan somebody else can build**One download offered as a subscription, an author paid nothing, and a design for the service the author would have chosen: vaults, keys, seven roles, 85% to the author.](../../articles/the-deck-i-could-not-download.md) [← All collections](index.md) · [The front page](../index.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://sgit.ai/articles/collections/wardley-maps.html)*