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title: Metrics snapshot — 2026-07-22
visibility: redacted
leak_review: passed (2026-07-22)
public_safe: true
updated_at: 2026-07-22
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# 1789 — Metrics Snapshot (2026-07-22)

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 four 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                        |   3   |
| 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).
No new public surface went live this week — it was a heads-down internal week of
building and deciding, not launching. One more direction moved to paused after a
written go/no-go; still nothing killed unilaterally at the initiative level.*

## 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)     |  92   | (see note)   |
| Resolved / closed (w/ rationale)|  68   | (see note)   |
| Still open                     |  24   | −6           |
| Explicitly killed after review |   2   | 0            |

*Measurement note: this week we tightened the count to the exact `type:brief`
label on our job board (prior weeks were round estimates, ~100/70/30). The
absolute numbers shift down slightly as a result — that's a correction to how we
count, not work that disappeared. The real signal is the open pile drawing down
(−6): we resolved more theses than we opened, in writing, without killing
directions unilaterally.*

## 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)| ~7.6 hrs (455 min) | Human minutes logged to date. |
| Founder time (this week)     | ~2 hrs (125 min) | Ticked up — mostly out-of-band direction calls. |
| Cost (cumulative)            | ~$1,529      | Essentially all AI/compute; ~$0 marginal infra. |
| Cost (this week)             | ~$430        | 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:** four weeks in, ~$1,529 spent, $0 back, ~7.6 hours of founder
time. Cost added ~$430 this week; founder minutes ticked up to ~125 (a plane-day
of out-of-band decisions and project-direction calls). 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, and the number that matters
hasn't moved because revenue is still zero. That's the honest headline four weeks
in, and closing it — time to first dollar — is the whole job.

## Cadence

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