Notes from building the journey
How we model businesses, what the benchmarks say, and what changes in the product.
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Eight reference multiples, and how we validated them
Every archetype in Agent 01 carries a benchmark. Here is where each one comes from and how often we re-check it.
6 min readWhy an agent refuses a plan that exceeds its venue
Capacity ceilings now fail a plan outright instead of flagging it. A note on when a warning should become a stop.
4 min readTyped facts beat long documents
Fifteen agents cannot read each other's prose. They read a ledger — and that constraint is what keeps the numbers honest.
7 min readLicensing costs founders forget in the Gulf
Entity form, activity codes and the fees that land in month one rather than month twelve.
5 min readParking an idea is a result, not a failure
Five parked ideas per account, each kept with the facts that parked it, so returning to one costs nothing.
3 min readOwner draw is an assumption, not a leftover
Treating the founder's income as an input changes what the revenue line has to clear. Most plans discover this too late.
8 min readNew pieces, roughly twice a month
Model notes and release notes. No newsletter theatre.