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When the joint-stock company was invented, it did not merely create a new legal entity. It created a new cognitive unit for collective action. When the constitution was written, it did not merely establish rules. It established a new architecture for collective decision-making. Every major institutional form in history has been a response to a new kind of cognitive challenge. We are now facing the next one: how do organisations think, decide, and govern when some of their most capable participants are not human? The Roundtable Protocol: Collective Intelligence and Governance in Human-Synthetic Times argues that the integration of synthetic intelligence into organisations is not a technical deployment problem. It is an institutional design problem. The question is not whether AI can be useful inside an organisation. The question is whether our institutional forms, designed for groups of humans, are adequate for groups that now include persistent synthetic intelligences with their own forms of memory, analysis, and output. This book proposes the Roundtable Protocol as a framework for institutional cognition in human-synthetic environments. The protocol addresses five structural challenges: how decisions are made when synthetic voices participate, how institutional memory is preserved and updated, how accountability is assigned across human-synthetic teams, how dissent and revision are structured, and how legitimacy is maintained when not all participants are human. This is Volume III of the OKKA Expanded Intelligence Series. It extends the individual-level analysis of Volume I (economic sovereignty in the post-job era) and the cognitive-level analysis of Volume II (the human-AI dyad as a new unit of thought) to the institutional level: how collectives must be redesigned for a world of expanded intelligences. This book is part of the OKKA Expanded Intelligence research programme (Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19086615), a 124-entry interdisciplinary study on expanded intelligence, human-AI collaboration, and civilisational cognition. ORCID: 0009-0006-9741-549X.