Ascender ownership moves to Nathan org with possible Zarina-led sister team

Situation

Peter decided Ascender does not stay parked between Jimmy and Larry as a half-supported side-project — it needs a real owner. Not adding a direct report to Peter; not adding to Justin who is at his limit. Lands in Nathans org. Possible structure: a sister group under Nathan (parallel to Justins org) for customer-facing delivery — would hold externally-facing Depot AND Ascender, led by Zarina, with one new engineer hired in for Ascender work. Decision contingent on Zarinas current Depot-Sodor commitment and the Wesley situation resolving.

Reasoning

Three forces. (1) Ascender is making money — it cannot live on engineer goodwill. (2) Justin is visibly at his cognitive-load limit; Peter wont add to him. (3) Nathan has the breadth and is angling for a manager-of-managers shape in 6 months — taking Ascender lets him stretch that muscle deliberately. The Zarina path also lets Peter prune Wesley out of Justins org without leaving the work uncovered. Peter is using this Ascender placement to surface a bigger question: is the Nathan/Justin org line drawn in the right place at all?

Additional Context

Wesley separately needs to leave Justins team and grow experience elsewhere — Peter and Bjorn have been talking about it; Nathan said the right career move for Wesley is to go get experience. The product split being explored: customer-facing-Depot is different from internal-Depot; Greg conflates them today.

Observed Evidence

Peter explicit: "I am bothered that it does not. ... Is there something else that I have got structured wrong?" Nathan agreed Justin is close to his limit; Peter said "It is not even close. No, he does not."

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