Sandbox

Try the tools in your browser

Take the diagnostics. Fire a pulse. Chat with the clone. Submit to the distribution. Nothing installed, nothing tracked, five-minute visits only.

The newsletter argues for publishing what you actually run. This page is where you get to run some of it without installing anything. Results of diagnostics live in your browser only. Nothing is sent to a server unless a demo explicitly says so, in which case you see what gets sent and why.

Orchestration tests

The closet-hours diagnostic — v1

live

Three questions. Twenty seconds. Find out whether you are over-building right now. Verdict + prescription. Contributes to your profile locally. Introduced in episode 001.

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The distribution test — v1

ships with ep 004 · 15 June

After episode 004 publishes the anonymized reader distribution, this demo lets you see where you sit on the curve. Currently pending because the distribution does not exist yet.

Coming with ep 004

The replacement test — v1

ships with ep 011

Am I becoming more or less necessary? Three questions about how your agents substitute for you — and whether that is what you wanted. Built with episode 011.

In the queue

Live tools

Fire a closet-hours pulse

live

The closet-hours pulse runs on my machine as a macOS LaunchAgent, firing one of 10 rotating diagnostic questions at random times during work hours. This button fires one at you right now — same prompts the real pulse uses. Feel what it's like before installing the real thing.

Chat with the clone

live 11 May

A scoped live instance of Adrian. Claude Haiku + my cognitive-clone patterns. Two messages/day free. The clone has strong opinions. The clone is wrong sometimes. It is honest about which.

See the waitlist page →

Research + methodology

Run the four-round research loop

ships with ep 005

The parallel-agent research pattern I used to audit my own startup idea. Type a proposition, and four agents attack it from four angles simultaneously, then synthesize. Runs against Claude API, rate-limited, cached. Full artifact available on the tools page with paid tier.

In the queue

Contribute

Submit to the public distribution

opens with ep 004

If you take the closet-hours diagnostic and want your number counted in the anonymized distribution published in episode 004, submit here. No email required. Just the number. Aggregated before any server sees it.

See the distribution page →

What this page is

The sandbox exists because the thesis of the newsletter — orchestration is the new senior work, publish the numbers — cannot be sold by words alone. You should be able to touch the thing. Not every tool here is live from day 1. Most are not. Each one that ships goes live here first, before the accompanying episode publishes.

If you subscribe, you get an email the morning any new demo goes live. If you do not subscribe, you can just check this page occasionally. Both are fine.