You had me at "whole org test" harness. This is a very, very interesting idea. Especially in conjunction with the concept of corporation as "slow AI" that I don't hear referenced often enough.

I don't see why you call it "literacy," though. I think Maturana & Varela's term "autopoiesis" more closely orbits the kernel, and I'll bet Stafford Beer's Autopoietic Systems would contribute to a good intellectual foundation.

At a certain point, though, I wonder if a purely software "business" doesn't just look like... SaaS?