The shelf
The homepage makes a promise: open-sourcing the lessons so your mistakes cost less than mine did. This page is where the promise is kept. Everything here is free, and each item is the open layer of one machine capability — the machine, demonstrated rather than described.
Available
The lessonscapability: allDated lessons from my own runs. Free to take.→The founder's questcapability: MethodThe long-form version of the jobs page: the quest, the clusters, the loops, the pains — written out in full.→The iteration calculatorcapability: Capital · LeverageHow many honest cycles does your budget actually buy? The site's one interactive surface.→The confidence worksheetcapability: MethodFive dimensions of your venture, each with your confidence written down as a number.→The honesty cadencecapability: MethodA one-page agenda for the standing fortnightly session that keeps belief and reality in the same room.→
In build
The validation standardcapability: MethodAn open standard for validating early-stage ventures: dimensions, evidence thresholds, status definitions. Everything above becomes an implementation of it.in build
The thesis workshopcapability: CommunityA small cohort, working their own ventures through the quest together. Open to anyone the thesis resonates with.in build
The co-experiment invitationcapability: Method · CommunityBring an assumption worth testing; we run the experiment on the cadence and publish what we learn.in build
Considering
The fire-yourself playbookcapability: LeverageWhich recurring founder jobs to hand to AI first, how, and what resists — and why the resistance is the actual job.considering
The fractional role templatecapability: PeopleHow to scope a senior fractional seat: decision rights, information flow, structural cadence.considering
An item moves to available only when a stranger can use it without emailing me.