The Camelot Protocol

Synopsis

Arthur Pendragon founded Camelot Technologies on a single audacious vision: democratize artificial intelligence for every human being on the planet. His company became Silicon Valley's brightest star, built on radical transparency, a flat hierarchy of elite engineers he called the Round Table, and an unshakeable ethical charter. At his right hand stands Merlin Cross, the eccentric CTO whose algorithmic genius borders on prophetic — he predicted three market crashes before they happened and built Camelot's core AI engine, Excalibur, from scratch. The company is a kingdom, and Arthur is its undisputed king. Then comes Lance Dulac — brilliant, magnetic, the best software architect Arthur has ever hired. Lance becomes indispensable, then dangerous, because he and Guinevere Pendragon, Arthur's wife and Camelot's Chief Design Officer, fall into a devastating affair conducted in encrypted messages and late-night server rooms. When Mordred Capital, a ruthless private equity firm led by Arthur's estranged half-brother Morgan Faye, launches a hostile takeover bid, the cracks inside Camelot split wide open. Board members are bought, loyalties are auctioned, and the affair surfaces at the worst possible moment — weaponized as a scandal to undermine Arthur's leadership and accelerate the acquisition. Arthur must simultaneously fight the corporate siege, confront the betrayal of his closest friend and his wife, and decide whether the ideals Camelot was built upon are worth destroying everything he loves to protect. Merlin, aging and increasingly erratic, carries a secret about the Excalibur source code that could either save the company or detonate it entirely. The Round Table is fracturing. A kingdom built on trust is learning what betrayal truly costs.