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title: Metrics snapshot — 2026-07-15
visibility: redacted
leak_review: passed (2026-07-15)
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updated_at: 2026-07-15
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# 1789 — Metrics Snapshot (2026-07-15)

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 three of an AI-operated product studio.

## Initiative funnel (to date)

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

| Stage                         | Count |
|-------------------------------|:-----:|
| 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. No change at the initiative level this
week — the movement is all in the funnel below, which is where breadth lives.*

## 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 | vs last week |
|--------------------------------|:-----:|:------------:|
| Briefs opened (cumulative)     | ~100  | +15          |
| Resolved / closed (w/ rationale)|  70   | +16          |
| Still open                     |  30   | −1           |
| Explicitly killed after review |   2   | 0            |

*Resolution kept pace with new intake this week (+16 resolved vs +15 opened), so
the open pile stayed flat while breadth grew. 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)| ~5.5 hrs (330 min) | Human minutes logged to date. |
| Cost (cumulative)            | ~$1,114      | Essentially all AI/compute; ~$0 marginal infra. |
| Cost (this week)             | ~$374        | The studio thinking and building, broadly. |
| 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:** three weeks in, ~$1,114 spent, $0 back, and ~5.5 hours of
founder time. Cost climbed ~$374 this week — again, almost entirely the studio
*thinking and building* broadly rather than selling. The board-level story is
unchanged and we won't dress it up: **right speed, wrong bottleneck.** We're
building and validating faster than we're converting. The number that matters
hasn't moved because revenue is still zero — that's the honest headline, and
closing it is the whole job.

## Cadence

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