Grayson Black built the product. He was the first real hire, the one who turned a messy idea into something worth billions. So when the acquisition goes through and a legal technicality erases him from the payout, he doesn’t leave. He stays, and he gets creative.

His plan is elegant and completely insane: build a fictional department inside the company, staff it with phantom employees, and collect their salaries one paycheck at a time. He recruits Wyatt, a burnt-out designer who just wants enough money to quit and start a YouTube channel, and Camilla, a hacker whose moral compass broke a long time ago. To handle the human side of things, they hire Leo, a struggling actor, to play the department’s manager on Zoom calls and in meetings. It’s supposed to be a small role. Leo treats it like the performance of a lifetime.

The one variable Grayson didn’t account for is Jazzy Darling. She’s a cybersecurity influencer hired by the CEO as a PR stunt, window dressing to make the company look secure during the deal. Jazzy doesn’t actually know security. But she’s got a terrifying instinct for reading people, and she’s desperate to prove she’s more than a publicity hire. She starts hunting for irregularities, and she’s better at it than anyone expected.

What starts as a clean, systematic scheme gets messier with every episode. Leo goes rogue, showing up to meetings nobody scheduled. Camilla starts taking risks for the thrill of it. Wyatt’s nerve is fraying. And Jazzy is closing in, following a trail that Grayson’s product-management brain can’t help but leave behind.

It’s a cat-and-mouse game between a criminal who thinks he’s a genius and a fraud who’s becoming the real thing.