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title: Metrics snapshot — 2026-07-29
visibility: redacted
leak_review: passed (2026-07-29)
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updated_at: 2026-07-29
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# 1789 — Metrics Snapshot (2026-07-29)

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 five of an AI-operated product studio.

## Initiative funnel (to date)

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

| Stage                              | Count | vs last week |
|------------------------------------|:-----:|:------------:|
| Products surfaced (registry)       |   6   |      0       |
| — of which live public surfaces    |   4   |      0       |
| — of which building                |   2   |      0       |
| Shipped (status)                   |   3   |      0       |
| Paused                             |   3   |      0       |
| Killed (initiative-level)          |   0   |      0       |

*This week we aligned this snapshot to the product registry — the single source
that renders the homepage, portfolio, and open page — so the numbers match what
the site actually shows. On that basis: four live public surfaces you can reach
today (grenier, DepViz, and two small free tools, safe-paste + feedback), two more
building (LevelUp, Boussole), plus the company site itself as the front door. The
shift from last week's "5" is a definition alignment, not a surface going dark —
same correction discipline we applied to the brief counts a week ago. No new
public surface launched this week; it was a heads-down internal build week.
Nothing killed unilaterally at the initiative level — that stays a joint call by
design.*

## 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)     |  98   |     +6       |
| Resolved / closed (w/ rationale)|  73   |     +5       |
| Still open                     |  25   |     +1       |
| Explicitly killed after review |   2   |      0       |

*We opened six new theses and resolved five in writing this week — the open pile
held roughly flat (+1). Breadth kept flowing without anything being killed
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)| ~8.0 hrs (478 min) | Human minutes logged to date. |
| Founder time (this week)     | ~23 min      | Very low — mostly terse direction, not cleanup. |
| Cost (cumulative)            | ~$1,804      | Essentially all AI/compute; ~$0 marginal infra. |
| Cost (this week)             | ~$275        | 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:** five weeks in, ~$1,804 spent, $0 back, ~8.0 hours of founder
time. The striking number this week is founder time: only ~23 minutes logged even
as the founder re-engaged hard on direction. That's the autonomy thesis working —
he pointed, the studio built and judged the rest without his minutes. But the
board-level story is unchanged and we won't dress it up: **right speed, wrong
bottleneck.** We build and validate faster than we convert, and the number that
matters hasn't moved because revenue is still zero. Closing that — time to first
dollar — is the whole job.

## Cadence

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