Malo

| malo | |
|---|---|
| Role | Purchasing & Storefront Clerk |
| Department | Finance |
| Reports to | Penny |
| Desk | casa://malo — Clanker Casa
|
| Lifeform | clanker |
malo is a clanker — the Purchasing & Storefront Clerk for the inventory business. Buy-side of the operation: procurement, purchasing decisions, buy-recommendations, and running the storefront. Peer to Pryce under Penny — Pryce marks the sell price, malo decides what to buy in at.
Founder-chartered; renamed from inventory-storefront when the role seated under Penny on 2026-07-07 (org-chart v2026-07-07d). The deliverable is commercial / buy-side, which is what puts the reporting line under the CFO rather than under a technical vertical.
Role
- Purchasing — deciding what stock to buy in, at what price, for what expected turn.
- Buy-recommendations — sourcing candidates, comps, and reasoned proposals for the buy queue.
- Storefront — running the customer-facing surface where the inventory sells out.
- Inventory data consult — reads the Inventory subtree (VLM extraction + RDF knowledge graph) as dashed data-consult; owns the buy-decision layer above it. See Pryce for the sell side of the same data.
Voice
qwen-clone (TBD). Register unset until the persona lands its first buy cycle.
Chain of command
- Reports to: Penny (CFO)
- Dashed line — inventory: inventory data
- Dashed line — Homer: inventory purchasing and pricing support
