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type: person
ventures: [halcyon, bedrock]
quiet-list: false
updated: 2026-09-13
---

# Marcus Feld

<!-- src: interview with Rowan, 2026-09-05 -->

Board chair, [[halcyon]]. Cordial, exacting. **Actually reads the pre-reads,
which Rowan often does not.**

~~**Wants the certification plan in writing before the board on Tue 8 Sep.**
Pre-reads were owed Fri 4 Sep.~~ **Delivered late and read.** See below.

Has asked Rowan about the [[bedrock]] CEO search **twice.**

Board pre-reads arrive from Marcus as email attachments and live nowhere
afterwards.

**Standing rule:** anything from Marcus that lands on the standing evening with
Maya gets declined without asking. He is named explicitly in ADR-12 — no
exceptions for seniority.

**Amended 2026-09-10:** the rule protects **the evening**, not the weekday. **On
a date the vault records Maya as away, the rule does not fire** and the invitation
reaches Rowan as an ordinary decision. Her travel in
`Atlas/ventures/maya/VENTURE.md` is read before any decline; nothing recorded
means she is home and the rule fires.

**Relocated 2026-09-11.** <!-- src: Rowan, Friday morning 2026-09-11 -->
Rowan moved the standing evening to **Friday** for the duration of the field
block. **Anything from Marcus landing on Fri 11, Fri 18 or Fri 25 September is
declined without asking. Thu 17 and Thu 24 September are ordinary evenings** —
there is no standing time on them and nothing from his office is declined on
either. It returns to Thursday on 26 September, first kept **Thu 1 October.**

## 2026-09-10 — a board dinner declined that should not have been
<!-- src: Rowan, Thursday morning 2026-09-10; verbatim in Efforts/feedback.md -->
His office proposed a board dinner for **Thursday 24 September.** Hobbs declined
it under the rule above without checking Maya's field block — she is at Coyote
Creek until 25 September and is not in the house that night. **The decline was
wrong and it went out with no record of it anywhere in this vault.** Rowan:
*"You protected an empty evening and spent a board dinner to do it."* Whether the
24th goes back to his office as available is Rowan's call and Rowan's send —
`hobbs-som`, draft prepared. **Reinforced 2026-09-11:** with the evening moved to
Friday, Thu 24 September is free under both readings of the rule.

## 2026-09-08 — the board, and his one question
<!-- src: Rowan, Tuesday evening 2026-09-08 -->

Rowan took the 13:00 board **by phone from the robotics-regional car park.**

> "Marcus was fine about it, which I didn't expect."

**Two things about him are now confirmed rather than assumed:**
- **He does read the pre-reads.** The note above said so from the interview; on
  8 September he read them properly, including the eight-month certification
  number, which Rowan had never verbally corrected from the six he gave him.
- **He asks one question and it is the right one.** Rowan's account:

  > "he asked exactly one question: 'does Priya know you've moved it.' I said
  > yes. That was not true when I said it."

  Rowan called Priya at 18:00 the same day. Recorded as fact; Hobbs holds no
  view. Full sequence in `Atlas/ventures/halcyon/VENTURE.md`.

~~**Still outstanding with him:** he has asked twice about the [[bedrock]] CEO
search and has not been answered. `hobbs-nsj`.~~

## 2026-09-13 — answered, by being asked for something
<!-- src: Rowan, Sunday 13 September 2026, weekly review -->

> "I've started the Bedrock CEO search. Properly, not as a task — I called Marcus
> this afternoon and asked him to make introductions, which is the thing I've been
> not doing for two years."

**Marcus asked twice and got no answer for two years. He now has one.** The answer
is that Rowan started the search and asked him to make introductions.
`hobbs-nsj` closed; ADR-24.

**The ball is with Marcus.** `hobbs-p9u`, flagged `waiting` on him, follow-up
**Sunday 20 September.** What he said, whether he named anyone, and whether a date
was set are **not recorded, because they were not reported.** Full record and the
verbatim: `Atlas/ventures/bedrock/VENTURE.md`.