{
    "reviewed": "2026-09-24",
    "statuses": {
        "live": "Live",
        "open": "Open",
        "in-progress": "In progress",
        "prototype": "Prototype",
        "proposed": "Proposed"
    },
    "plans": [
        {
            "slug": "scarlet-beast-poker",
            "timeline_short": "Diligence, then 30/60/90-day handover",
            "no": "01",
            "title": "Scarlet Beast Poker + Hiss",
            "kicker": "Flagship framework · for acquisition",
            "kind": "acquire",
            "status": "live",
            "tagline": "A complete, operating poker platform with a research-grade poker AI inside it, packaged to be sold as a business.",
            "price": "Quoted after diligence",
            "price_note": "No listing price. Terms are written per buyer in this vault after the free diligence call.",
            "timeline": "Diligence to handover in weeks; 30, 60 or 90-day operating handover",
            "audience": "Gaming operators, applied-AI teams, acquirers who want a running product rather than a prototype.",
            "cover_alt": "Playing cards and poker chips on black felt, faint lines of a neural network in the smoke above them.",
            "summary": [
                "Scarlet Beast Poker is a multi-table poker platform (ring games and tournaments, hand histories, player accounts) with web, desktop and Android clients, a public API, and single sign-on shared with the rest of the Scarlet Beast estate.",
                "Hiss is the AI behind the house play: nine years of solo work, six generations of neural networks, computer vision that reads a live table, and a promotion gate that decides which model ships. What transfers is the whole apparatus that produces the next model, not just today's weights."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "Source for the game server, the web, desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) and Android clients, and the public API with its documentation",
                "Hiss: trained weights, the training pipeline, the evaluation arena, the opponent models calibrated on real hands, and the promotion gate",
                "The house bot fleet automation (systemd services) and the operator console",
                "Domain, brand, download hub and developer portal",
                "A 30, 60 or 90-day operating handover with the engineer who built it"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "Gaming licences. None transfer; real-money operation is the buyer's regulatory work.",
                "Any claim of a live win rate against real players. We have not measured one we would stand behind."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Diligence call",
                    "Free, one hour",
                    "We open the running system, walk the architecture and answer the uncomfortable questions first. You keep a written summary."
                ],
                [
                    "Data room",
                    "Under NDA",
                    "Source access, infrastructure inventory, dependency and licence audit, operating costs, the known-issues list."
                ],
                [
                    "Terms",
                    "Written here",
                    "Scope, what transfers and what does not, price, timeline and handover schedule, in one document in this vault."
                ],
                [
                    "Transfer",
                    "Rehearsed cut-over",
                    "Repositories, domains, secrets and infrastructure move to you; we rebuild a clean environment from the definitions to prove it reproduces."
                ],
                [
                    "Operating handover",
                    "30 / 60 / 90 days",
                    "Runbooks walked, incidents rehearsed, your first releases shipped with us on the call. Then we step back."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "Acquisition",
                    "Outright, or a majority stake",
                    "Quoted in writing after diligence"
                ],
                [
                    "Licence",
                    "Annual, per deployment",
                    "Quoted in writing after diligence"
                ],
                [
                    "Retained engineering",
                    "Optional, after handover",
                    "Priced up front with the terms"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "The platform is live at poker.scarletbeast.com, with desktop and Android builds on its download page. The 30-bot house fleet runs there under systemd.",
                    "Measured in our arena against opponents calibrated to 142,000 real hands: the previous champion lost about 32 big blinds per 100 hands; training it to fold weak hands facing a bet brought that to about −4.",
                    "A precomputed CFR \"blueprint\" layer measured +20 to +28 bb/100 in heads-up arena play, but close to zero in six-max, which is the game the fleet actually plays. We report both.",
                    "On 2026-09-16 we found and fixed a bug that had stopped the neural-network bots acting for eight weeks while the tables played on.",
                    "The six-max Deep CFR research run (M6) finished its 3,000 iterations on 2026-09-14. Its policy is still being evaluated before anything from it reaches the tables."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "Play the platform",
                    "https://poker.scarletbeast.com/"
                ],
                [
                    "Download the clients",
                    "https://poker.scarletbeast.com/download"
                ],
                [
                    "Hiss research dashboard",
                    "https://nn.scarletbeast.com/"
                ],
                [
                    "Framework asset sheet",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/startup-frameworks/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Book the diligence call",
                "https://scarletbeast.com/contact/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/scarlet-beast-poker",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/scarlet-beast-poker.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "scarlet-outbound",
            "timeline_short": "13 weeks to a pilot readout",
            "no": "02",
            "title": "Scarlet: Automated Outbound",
            "kicker": "Product · concept-first sales engine",
            "kind": "product",
            "status": "in-progress",
            "tagline": "Every prospect gets a working, branded demo of your product before anyone calls them. Then the call opens on it.",
            "price": "$2,900 – $18,500 / month",
            "price_note": "Published plans plus onboarding. A custom engagement is scoped in SOW-01 from $72,000 over four months.",
            "timeline": "SOW-01: 13 calendar weeks to pilot readout, 6 optional weeks after",
            "audience": "Software companies with a product that demos well and a sales team that cold-calls.",
            "cover_alt": "An old telephone switchboard with red patch cables and a vintage receiver in the foreground.",
            "summary": [
                "Scarlet finds the companies in your segment, builds each one a branded, working demo of your product overnight, and then calls. The pitch is a link they can open while you are still on the line.",
                "The call path is built around consent: the dialer's database query cannot return a record without consent on file, the agent says it is an AI in its first sentence, and it never clones a real person's voice."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "Prospect graph: discovery, enrichment and scoring for one segment",
                "Concept Factory: brand extraction, sandbox provisioning, walkthrough capture and a one-page deck per prospect",
                "Consent capture, DNC scrubbing and calling-window enforcement",
                "Voice agent on Asterisk with warm transfer to a human closer",
                "Dossier, CRM row and call scoring for every dial"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "Legal sign-off. Onboarding does not finish until your counsel has approved the list, the script and the consent language.",
                "Cloned or human-imitating voices, at any price."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Phase 0 · Definition",
                    "2 weeks",
                    "Segment, product, concept spec, the definition of a qualified meeting, and a compliance baseline signed by counsel."
                ],
                [
                    "Phase 1 · Prospect graph",
                    "3 weeks",
                    "1,000 companies seeded; at least 60% with a verified phone number and a named contact."
                ],
                [
                    "Phase 2 · Concept Factory",
                    "4 weeks",
                    "100 concepts built unattended in one overnight run, 90% passing blind visual QA."
                ],
                [
                    "Phase 3 · Voice agent",
                    "5 weeks",
                    "50 supervised test calls at a median turn latency of 800 ms or less."
                ],
                [
                    "Phase 4 · Context and CRM",
                    "3 weeks",
                    "Dossier assembled before the dial; every call transcribed, scored and joined to its concept."
                ],
                [
                    "Phase 5 · Pilot",
                    "2 weeks",
                    "100 concept-first dials against 100 control dials, read out with confidence intervals."
                ],
                [
                    "Phase 6 · Platform",
                    "6 weeks, optional",
                    "Multi-tenancy, self-serve onboarding, metering and billing."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "Signal",
                    "$2,900 / month + $6,000 onboarding",
                    "250 concepts and 2,000 dials a month"
                ],
                [
                    "Engine",
                    "$7,400 / month + $12,000 onboarding",
                    "1,000 concepts and 10,000 dials a month"
                ],
                [
                    "Foundry",
                    "$18,500 / month + $25,000 onboarding",
                    "5,000 concepts and 40,000 dials a month"
                ],
                [
                    "SOW-01 build",
                    "$18,000 / month × 4, then $9,500 / month",
                    "Plus infrastructure at cost, $250 per qualified meeting, $750 per activation"
                ],
                [
                    "Platform / OEM licence",
                    "from $60,000",
                    "Run Scarlet under your own brand"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "The product site, the 2:53 film and the full statement of work (SOW-01) are published at scarlet.scarletbeast.com.",
                    "The Concept Factory runs as the Scarlet concept engine: a site per shop at <shop>.scarletbeast.com for New York computer repair, phone repair and smoke shops, rebuilt nightly, with a claim form and an immediate takedown on request.",
                    "Calls go through a human first. The AI voice agent is rehearsed in simulation inside Asterisk and is not dialing live prospects yet.",
                    "No paying customer yet. The published unit costs (about $2.05 per concept) are engineering estimates from the SOW, not billed history."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "Product site and film",
                    "https://scarlet.scarletbeast.com/"
                ],
                [
                    "Statement of work, SOW-01",
                    "https://scarlet.scarletbeast.com/sow-01/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Book a walkthrough",
                "https://scarlet.scarletbeast.com/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/scarlet-outbound",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/scarlet-outbound.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "bet-on-you",
            "timeline_short": "Closes 31 Oct 2026",
            "no": "03",
            "title": "Bet On You: the Incubator",
            "kicker": "Cohort SB-001 · one company",
            "kind": "apply",
            "status": "open",
            "tagline": "Six months of development services and technical leadership, free, for one company building technology with a conscience.",
            "price": "Free to the company chosen",
            "price_note": "Funded by our client work. One company per cohort.",
            "timeline": "Applications close 31 October 2026, 23:59 ET; six months of work after selection",
            "deadline": "2026-10-31T23:59:59-04:00",
            "audience": "One founder or team, at any stage from a sketch to real revenue. No technical co-founder needed.",
            "cover_alt": "A young sapling growing out of a crack in black concrete under a single beam of red light.",
            "summary": [
                "Not advice and not a mentor on a fortnightly call: an engineering team that sits inside your problem for half a year and ships the architecture, the build, the deployment, and the judgment about what not to build.",
                "Every application answers one question we take seriously: what does this do to the world? An honest trade-off beats a noble slogan."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "Six months of full-stack development on your product",
                "Technical leadership: the decisions a first CTO makes, made properly",
                "Automation of the parts of the business eating your week",
                "AI where it earns its place, and nowhere else"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "Cash investment. This is engineering time, not capital."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Apply",
                    "Until 31 Oct 2026",
                    "By the web form, or by pointing an AI agent at the application's MCP server; it drafts in your words and submits only when you say so."
                ],
                [
                    "Selection",
                    "After the close",
                    "One company is chosen for cohort SB-001."
                ],
                [
                    "Build",
                    "Six months",
                    "Full-stack development and technical leadership inside your company."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "The company chosen",
                    "$0",
                    "Six months of development and technical leadership"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "Applications for cohort SB-001 are open and close on 31 October 2026 at 23:59 Eastern.",
                    "The whole application is an API with an MCP server in front of it (seven tools), so an applicant's own agent can interview them and submit.",
                    "Prefer a human form? The same application is a plain web form, and the schema it validates against is published as data."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "Apply",
                    "https://apply.scarletbeast.com/"
                ],
                [
                    "The application schema, as data",
                    "https://apply.scarletbeast.com/api/intake/schema"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Start your application",
                "https://apply.scarletbeast.com/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/bet-on-you",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/bet-on-you.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "engineering-services",
            "timeline_short": "2–4 week sprints to ongoing",
            "no": "04",
            "title": "Engineering Services",
            "kicker": "The business third · productized engagements",
            "kind": "engage",
            "status": "live",
            "tagline": "Three tiers, published prices, and a free technical audit before anyone spends a dollar.",
            "price": "$3,000 – $50,000+",
            "price_note": "Ranges are scoped at the audit, not quoted blind. Emergency triage is a flat $1,500.",
            "timeline": "2–4 week sprints to ongoing embedded partnership",
            "audience": "Commerce teams on Shopify Plus or Magento, companies with a stalled or broken project, and anyone who needs a senior technical voice.",
            "cover_alt": "An engineer's drafting table with architectural blueprints, a brass compass, a steel ruler and a circuit board.",
            "summary": [
                "This is how Scarlet Beast pays for everything else: performance engineering, AI integration, growth infrastructure, platform migration, data and analytics, and technical leadership, sold as fixed outcomes rather than hours.",
                "Every engagement starts with a free written audit you keep whether or not you hire us. You own the code, the infrastructure, the credentials and the documentation at the end."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "Starter: technical audit and performance report, Core Web Vitals work, a first AI automation workflow, conversion and UX fixes",
                "Growth Infrastructure: CI/CD, cloud optimisation, Shopify or Magento improvements, custom automation, analytics and API integrations",
                "Enterprise: architecture leadership, AI integration strategy, migration planning, performance at scale",
                "Project recovery for commerce, platform, CMS, migration, data and infrastructure failures"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "Work we think will not pay for itself. We say so before the invoice, not after."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Free audit",
                    "Days",
                    "Commerce performance, infrastructure and TTFB, AI readiness, technical debt, or consciousness claims: a written, prioritised report."
                ],
                [
                    "Sprint",
                    "2–4 weeks",
                    "One scope, one fixed price, measurable results."
                ],
                [
                    "Retainer",
                    "Monthly",
                    "Guaranteed hours, priority response, a monthly roadmap."
                ],
                [
                    "Embedded partnership",
                    "Ongoing",
                    "Fractional CTO and architecture lead inside your organisation."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "Starter",
                    "$3,000 – $8,000",
                    "2–4 weeks, fixed price"
                ],
                [
                    "Growth Infrastructure",
                    "$10,000 – $30,000",
                    "4–10 weeks, scoped"
                ],
                [
                    "Enterprise",
                    "$50,000+",
                    "Ongoing, embedded"
                ],
                [
                    "Emergency triage",
                    "$1,500 flat",
                    "48-hour turnaround"
                ],
                [
                    "Technical audits",
                    "Free",
                    "Five kinds; the report is yours either way"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "All three tiers, the five free audits and the $1,500 triage are open for booking at 646.458.1488 or through the contact page.",
                    "The public House Ledger (accounting.scarletbeast.com) was zeroed on 2026-09-24 and now shows only real entries from our books."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "Services and pricing",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/services/"
                ],
                [
                    "The House Ledger",
                    "https://accounting.scarletbeast.com/"
                ],
                [
                    "Contact",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/contact/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Request a free audit",
                "https://scarletbeast.com/contact/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/engineering-services",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/engineering-services.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "consciousness-claims-audit",
            "timeline_short": "One call, then a written report",
            "no": "05",
            "title": "Consciousness-Claims Audit",
            "kicker": "Audit 05 · free",
            "kind": "engage",
            "status": "live",
            "tagline": "Every claim your product makes about sentience, awareness or brainwaves, checked against the evidence, then rewritten in calibrated language.",
            "price": "Free",
            "price_note": "One call and a written findings list you keep.",
            "timeline": "One call, then a written report",
            "audience": "AI companion and agent products, AI labs, wellness, meditation and sound brands, AI music and art platforms.",
            "cover_alt": "A magnifying glass over stacked papers and a glass sphere, red light refracting through the lens.",
            "summary": [
                "If your product says it is aware, it feels, it heals or it puts people in theta, someone will eventually check. We check first: against the indicator framework from the consciousness science, the evidence on what models' self-reports are worth, and the entrainment literature.",
                "You get a claims inventory, a rating and a source for every claim, calibrated rewrites, and a self-description standard for your AI. This is not legal advice; take it to your counsel."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "Claims inventory across your site, app copy, persona prompts, store listings and ads",
                "A rating per claim (supported, overstated, unsupported, untestable) with the source that decides it",
                "Replacement copy and a self-description standard for your AI",
                "An AI-disclosure and AI-made labelling check"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "Legal opinions. We point out where rules may apply; your counsel decides."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Send a link",
                    "Day 0",
                    "Tell us which product."
                ],
                [
                    "One call",
                    "About an hour",
                    "We walk through how the product describes itself."
                ],
                [
                    "Findings",
                    "Written",
                    "The inventory, ratings and rewrites, yours to keep."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "The audit",
                    "Free",
                    "Same offer as our other audits"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "Launched on 2026-09-24 alongside the Lab and our own AI Welfare & Honesty Policy v1.0, which we hold ourselves to first.",
                    "Listed as Audit 05 on the services page."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "How the audit works",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/claims-audit/"
                ],
                [
                    "AI Welfare & Honesty Policy",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/ai-policy/"
                ],
                [
                    "The research behind it",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/resources/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Request the audit",
                "https://scarletbeast.com/claims-audit/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/consciousness-claims-audit",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/consciousness-claims-audit.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "scarlet-beast-lab",
            "timeline_short": "Open since 24 Sep 2026",
            "no": "06",
            "title": "The Scarlet Beast Lab",
            "kicker": "The consciousness two thirds · open research",
            "kind": "research",
            "status": "live",
            "tagline": "Small projects, each making one honest claim, each measured, each published with what happened, including when it fails.",
            "price": "Free and open",
            "price_note": "Funded by the business third. Nothing here is for sale.",
            "timeline": "Opened 2026-09-24; reviewed at least once a year",
            "audience": "Anyone curious about consciousness and technology; researchers who want the data.",
            "cover_alt": "Laboratory glassware and a crystal prism on a dark bench, red light split through the prism.",
            "summary": [
                "Scarlet Beast is two thirds consciousness and one third business. The Lab is the consciousness part run like a lab: research is written down before it runs and the results are published whatever they are.",
                "House rules: we never claim a product, model or track is conscious, awakens anyone or entrains brainwaves; AI-made work is labelled; every experience has a way out; your experience data stays on your device unless you choose to share it."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "The Honest Oracle: tarot and I Ching with verifiable randomness; you interpret first",
                "Resonance Sessions: guided listening, labelled AI-made, no brainwave claims",
                "The Experience Ledger: a private journal with opt-in anonymised aggregates",
                "Introspection Replication Lab: concept-injection and belief probes on small open models, nulls included",
                "The Homeostatic Agent: a persistent learner with preregistered markers, running live",
                "The Glass Ritual: train a tiny neural network by hand",
                "The Consciousness-Claims Audit and the AI Welfare & Honesty Policy"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "Therapy, crisis support or medical claims. If you need help now, in the US call or text 988."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Preregister",
                    "Before each run",
                    "Markers and assumptions written down, hashed, and for the Homeostat, timestamped with OpenTimestamps."
                ],
                [
                    "Run",
                    "In public",
                    "Live pages, live services, rate-limited so they stay up."
                ],
                [
                    "Publish",
                    "Whatever happens",
                    "Data, code and write-ups, null results included."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "Everything in the Lab",
                    "Free",
                    "Paid for by the services work"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "All eight projects opened on 2026-09-24, with a 46-second film on the Lab hub.",
                    "The Homeostatic Agent is running live. Its OpenTimestamps proof was made 17 minutes after the run started, and the page says so rather than claiming a pre-run stamp.",
                    "The Honest Oracle's AI voice is rate-limited (8 readings per visitor a day) to keep it available."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "The Lab",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/lab/"
                ],
                [
                    "AI Welfare & Honesty Policy",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/ai-policy/"
                ],
                [
                    "Resources and roadmap",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/resources/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Enter the Lab",
                "https://scarletbeast.com/lab/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/scarlet-beast-lab",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/scarlet-beast-lab.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "growl",
            "timeline_short": "Not scheduled",
            "no": "07",
            "title": "GROWL: Exchange + Bot Marketplace",
            "kicker": "Framework · fintech",
            "kind": "acquire",
            "status": "prototype",
            "tagline": "A crypto and forex exchange interface with a marketplace where trading bots are priced on audited performance.",
            "price": "Not priced",
            "price_note": "Licence or co-build terms are written per partner.",
            "timeline": "Not scheduled; depends on a partner and on licensing",
            "audience": "A licensed exchange or broker that wants a bot marketplace, or a partner willing to carry the regulatory work.",
            "cover_alt": "A jagged mountain ridge shaped like a candlestick chart at night, a wolf silhouette howling on the summit.",
            "summary": [
                "GROWL applies the poker thesis to markets: machine decisions under uncertainty, scored in public. The plan pairs an exchange with a marketplace where anyone can publish a trading model priced on audited return, Sharpe ratio, drawdown and win rate.",
                "What exists today is the interface and the plumbing around it, not a trading venue. We would rather say that plainly than let a demo pass for an exchange."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "The GROWL web interface: exchange screens, charts, a model marketplace layout, sign-in shared with the estate",
                "The Market Prophet page: an AI commentary service for a symbol, labelled as commentary",
                "growl-bot: a C++ trading daemon that paper-trades by default"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "A matching engine, custody, deposits or withdrawals. None are built.",
                "Money-transmission, securities or commodities licensing. None is held.",
                "Audited bot performance. The marketplace listings on the demo are illustrative, not track records."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Interface",
                    "Built",
                    "Exchange and marketplace screens, estate sign-in."
                ],
                [
                    "Paper trading",
                    "Built",
                    "growl-bot trades on paper; no exchange is wired."
                ],
                [
                    "Partner and licensing",
                    "Not started",
                    "Needed before any real money moves."
                ],
                [
                    "Audited marketplace",
                    "Not started",
                    "Real, audited KPIs replace the illustrative listings."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "Licence or co-build",
                    "Not priced",
                    "Written per partner in this vault"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "trading.scarletbeast.com is up as an interface prototype. It is not an exchange: there is no order matching and no custody.",
                    "The marketplace figures shown on the demo are sample listings, not measured returns. This plan was downgraded from \"live\" in this review to say so."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "The GROWL prototype",
                    "https://trading.scarletbeast.com/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Talk about a partnership",
                "https://scarletbeast.com/contact/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/growl",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/growl.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "signal",
            "timeline_short": "Standard framework handover",
            "no": "08",
            "title": "Signal: the Creators Network",
            "kicker": "Framework · formerly networkedin",
            "kind": "acquire",
            "status": "live",
            "tagline": "A professional network for the people who build the machines, ranked by what they shipped instead of who endorsed them.",
            "price": "Quoted after diligence",
            "price_note": "Licence, acquire outright, or rebrand.",
            "timeline": "Same handover path as every framework",
            "audience": "AI labs, quant desks and solver shops that hire from a shallow pool, and anyone who wants a vertical network to run.",
            "cover_alt": "A constellation of glowing nodes joined by thin red threads in darkness.",
            "summary": [
                "A Signal profile is a body of work (models trained, solvers written, systems put into production) with the artefacts attached. The feed is chronological and unranked by design.",
                "It rides the estate single sign-on, so an account carries across every Scarlet Beast product."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "Ship-log profiles, a chronological feed, follows and working groups",
                "Estate single sign-on",
                "The brand, which is rebrandable"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "User or revenue figures. We have not published any and are not claiming any here."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Diligence call",
                    "Free",
                    "See it running."
                ],
                [
                    "Terms",
                    "Written here",
                    "Licence, acquisition or rebrand."
                ],
                [
                    "Handover",
                    "30 / 60 / 90 days",
                    "As for every framework."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "Licence, acquisition or rebrand",
                    "Quoted after diligence",
                    "No listing price"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "Running as networkedin on poker.scarletbeast.com; the product is being renamed Signal.",
                    "Listed in the Startup Frameworks catalogue."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "See it running",
                    "https://poker.scarletbeast.com/networkedin"
                ],
                [
                    "Framework asset sheet",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/startup-frameworks/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Claim this framework",
                "https://scarletbeast.com/contact/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/signal",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/signal.webp"
        },
        {
            "slug": "techs-tinder",
            "timeline_short": "Scoped per partner",
            "no": "09",
            "title": "Tech's Tinder",
            "kicker": "Framework · build to order",
            "kind": "acquire",
            "status": "proposed",
            "tagline": "Deal-finding for second-hand and surplus hardware: read every listing, score it against real comparable prices, show one deal at a time.",
            "price": "Build to order, quoted",
            "price_note": "Revenue model on paper: a subscription for the feed plus a finder's fee on what closes.",
            "timeline": "Scoped per partner",
            "audience": "Resellers, refurbishers, integrators, AI-compute shops and IT asset disposition firms.",
            "cover_alt": "Graphics cards and server blades on a dark warehouse shelf, red status lights glowing.",
            "summary": [
                "Hardware deals are constant and scattered across auctions, liquidators, broker lists and classifieds, priced inconsistently and gone within hours. The plan: ingest the market, normalise messy listings into structured parts, price each one against comparable sales, and match it to a buyer's spec, one swipe per deal.",
                "This one is a specification, not a running system. It is offered as a co-build on the same bones as our other frameworks."
            ],
            "scope_in": [
                "Market ingestion across auctions, liquidators, surplus channels and classifieds",
                "Part normalisation from free-text listings",
                "Margin scoring against comparable sales, with a confidence level",
                "Buyer specs, a swipe interface and instant alerts; seller listings matched into the buyer pool"
            ],
            "scope_out": [
                "A working product today. It has not been built."
            ],
            "phases": [
                [
                    "Scope",
                    "With a partner",
                    "Which markets, which parts, which buyers first."
                ],
                [
                    "Build",
                    "Quoted",
                    "On the shared auth, billing, API and deployment parts."
                ],
                [
                    "Handover",
                    "At delivery",
                    "You own everything."
                ]
            ],
            "pricing": [
                [
                    "Build to order",
                    "Quoted in writing",
                    "Fixed scope, fixed date"
                ]
            ],
            "current": {
                "date": "2026-09-24",
                "items": [
                    "Specified and listed in the Startup Frameworks catalogue since September. No build has started; it waits for a partner."
                ]
            },
            "links": [
                [
                    "Framework description",
                    "https://scarletbeast.com/startup-frameworks/"
                ]
            ],
            "cta": [
                "Request the deck",
                "https://scarletbeast.com/contact/"
            ],
            "url": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/plans/techs-tinder",
            "cover": "https://businessplans.scarletbeast.com/vault/img/techs-tinder.webp"
        }
    ]
}