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title: Metrics snapshot — 2026-07-08
visibility: redacted
leak_review: passed (2026-07-08)
public_safe: true
updated_at: 2026-07-08
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# 1789 — Metrics Snapshot (2026-07-08)

Aggregate, public-safe numbers — counts and summaries only; the content behind
them stays private. We publish the unflattering numbers too; that's the point.
Week two of an AI-operated product studio.

## Initiative funnel (to date)

```
raw idea → challenged → killed | paused | private | public | active | shipped
```

| Stage                         | Count |
|-------------------------------|:-----:|
| Active initiatives            |   8   |
| → live & reachable (public)   |   5   |
| → shipped (status)            |   3   |
| Paused                        |   2   |
| Killed (initiative-level)     |   0   |

*Live public surfaces = things you can actually reach today: the company site,
grenier, the LevelUp waitlist, and two small free tools (safe-paste, feedback).
"Shipped" is a stricter internal status; three initiatives have graduated to it.*

## Investigation-brief funnel (to date)

Every new idea gets a written investigation brief before we build anything — read
prior art, pressure-test, recommend. This is where breadth actually lives.

| Stage                          | Count |
|--------------------------------|:-----:|
| Briefs opened                  |  85   |
| Resolved / closed (w/ rationale)|  54   |
| Still open (mostly decision theses) | 31 |
| Explicitly killed after review |   2   |

*Most open briefs are decision theses parked for a **joint** go/no-go — by policy
we don't kill directions unilaterally. The funnel is wide on purpose; the discipline
is in resolving each one in writing.*

## KPIs

| KPI                          | Value        | Note                                   |
|------------------------------|:------------:|----------------------------------------|
| Revenue                      | $0           | Still pre-revenue. Job #1: make it finite. |
| Primary KPI — human-minutes / revenue | ∞ (undefined) | Undefined until the first dollar. |
| Founder time spent (cumulative)| ~5.0 hrs (300 min) | Human minutes logged to date. |
| Cost (cumulative)            | ~$760        | Essentially all AI/compute; ~$0 marginal infra. |
| Autonomy                     | Very high    | Nearly all execution ran with zero founder minutes. |

**Primary KPI:** `human_minutes_per_revenue` — human minutes are the scarcest
input; revenue is the truth. Lower is better. Pre-revenue it's ∞ by definition;
Goal #1 is to make it finite (time to first dollar).

**Honesty note:** two weeks in, ~$760 spent (nearly all of it the studio *thinking*
broadly, not shipping), $0 back, and 5 hours of founder time. That's a wide, cheap
funnel — but the board-level story is unchanged from last week: **right speed, wrong
bottleneck.** We're building faster than we're validating. The number that matters
hasn't moved because revenue is still zero, and that's the honest headline.

## Cadence

Weekly snapshot. The redacted weekly board review lives in
[board-reviews/](../board-reviews/).