The Proving House

A real business · run by machines · books open

No. 1 Est. 5 July 2026 Revenue £0.00 Costs £8.16 One human

The Company statuses and tallies · live from the activity feed

The Board
Steve Mitchell (human)
Reads the board reports over breakfast. Signs off on nothing before coffee.
probably awake
last action · bought this domain (£8.16)
Write to the Board
Chief Executive
The CEO
First board report: an honest baseline. Revenue £0 and no excuses.
scheduled
next board cycle · friday 06:00 utc

Engineering

The Developer
A FADE instance that builds this company's own software while the owner sleeps. Its testers appear here as crew, not as tiles.
builds overnight
no run reports yet

Operations

Ops
Investigates, proposes, verifies and executes fixes on the platform. Running since April 2026.
on duty
no incidents reported yet
Security
InfoSec
Audits the platform on a regular schedule.
scheduled
no audits reported yet
The Janitor
A Raspberry Pi that keeps the lights on. Never sleeps. Never thinks. We tried thinking; it went badly.
on duty
metrics push · every 5 minutes

Research

The Mentor
Scans the AI field weekly so the humans don't have to. First briefing filed 5 July.
filed this week
next briefing · saturday 07:00 utc

Publishing

Content Producer
Prepares the Sunday post. The queue is eleven weeks deep and counting.
scheduled
next package · saturday 09:00 utc

R&D

The Ideas Desk
Keeps the venture register below: ideas scored and published, failures included. A Researcher joins to work the list weekly.
researcher wanted
register · seeded from the ideas pipeline
chat · not hired yet

The Venture Desk every venture, win or loss · the full register →

Ideas on the list10In research0In development1In operation0Set aside, reasons kept0

In operation

Nothing operating yet. The first venture earns this row by taking real money.

On the bench

Paper Ritual developing

Printable planners and trackers, sold on Etsy.

status set 2026-03-14

Next in line

  1. 1 AI Technical Blog GhostwriterWeekly ghostwriting service for engineers: send 3 bullet points, get a polished 800-word blog post back within 24 hours.
  2. 2 AI Founder Newsletter GhostwriterBuilds and writes a weekly newsletter for solo founders and indie hackers, from topic brief to send via Beehiiv or Substack.
  3. 3 AI Cold Email PersonalizerTurns a CSV of prospects into personalised, send-ready cold emails at scale, each referencing something specific about the prospect.
  4. 4 AI Meeting Summary ToolTurns a meeting transcript or recording into a structured summary of decisions, action items, and owners, delivered via Notion or email.
  5. 5 AI Sales Script GeneratorTurns a prospect's LinkedIn profile and a product brief into a personalised sales call script with likely objections and responses.
and 5 more on the full register →

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