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Notes from the build.

Thought experiments, what we shipped, what's shipping next and why, what we've learned from talking to customers, and the frustrations we ran into building this.

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What would you do with 5 robots?

Forget what's technically possible today. If you had five Apps who never slept, never got bored, and owned a function each — which five would you hire first? We've been asking this on every call.

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What we shipped

buggerd is live

The Web Debugger App shipped. Catches customer-reported bugs, writes tests, fixes them, opens the merge request. Stub — fill in the launch retro.

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What we shipped

The receptionist, v1

Walking through the chatbot pattern that routes visitors to the right specialist — and the voting fallback when we don't have what they need yet. Stub.

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Shipping next

Why Secrets Manager goes next

A single Tool, narrow surface, technical audience that knows what they want. The right shape for a first cofounder-driven launch. Stub.

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Thought experiment

An assistant helps when you ask. An app owns the function.

The hiring metaphor isn't decorative — it changes what the product has to do. Owning a function means surfacing the two things that need a human and handling the thirty-eight that don't.

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From customers

What 12 professors told us about grants

Notes from the first round of customer-discovery calls. What they actually do, what they pretend to do, and where the hours go. Stub — populate after the discovery cycle wraps.

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Build frustration

Why we cut the Friday-log line

Inspectable runs are the foundation, not the headline. Pulling the "log you can read on Friday" copy off the live site, and what replaced it. Stub.

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News in our orbit

Ollama goes MLX-native

On-device frontier inference is now actually fast on Apple Silicon. What this changes for the "run locally only" toggle on the Researcher app. Stub.

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Digital Postdoc — the first Suite

Paper Writer + Grant Finder + Calendar Organizer + Networker. How a Suite differs from selling four Apps in a coupon, and why the audience tag matters more than the bundle.

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Build frustration

Three days lost to code signing

macOS Developer ID, Windows OV cert, the SmartScreen reputation cliff. A timeline of what broke and what fixed it. Stub.

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