You're citing the article mid-sentence. The full sentence is:

> Imagine if we could represent our entire organisational structure programmatically instead—not a static picture, but a living, breathing digital representation of our company that can be versioned, queried, tested, and automatically verified.

So yeah, the organisation is living and breathing by virtue of the humans inside of it.

But the representation of its organisational structure refers to a picture of an org chart.

Non-tech people also aspire to have the entire org structure represented digitally.

But in static, proprietary binary formats in file repositories that can only be manually queried.

Our code is already checked into version control and can be programmatically accessed via CI, agents, etc. Our software production environments can already be queried programmatically via APIs. Our issue trackers have hooks that react to support tickets, pull requests, CI. Then there's an airgap where the rest of the org sits with Word documents and pushes digital paper around. Artifacts delivered to customers that must be manually copied, attached, downloaded by hand.

The dream is that modern software development practices would propagate throughout companies.

Automate all the things!