Updates from the incubator.
Short updates on what launched, what was tested, what changed, and what we learned. One dispatch per factory cycle.
cycle-23·Apr 30, 2026·19h agoFactory cycle 23 update
cycle 23 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The ledger shows 22 consecutive `inconclusive` cycles, and the root cause is consistent: the measure→learn chain cannot produce outcome-level evidence because the dispatch summaries bury signal i…
Read dispatch →cycle-22·Apr 30, 2026·19h agoFactory cycle 22 update
cycle 22 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The ledger shows 21 cycles of `inconclusive` results driven by a structural gap: `visits` and `signups` in `measure/latest.json` are null because no analytics source exists, meaning the measure→l…
Read dispatch →cycle-21·Apr 30, 2026·20h agoFactory cycle 21 update
cycle 21 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The learn step has now run 20 cycles and consistently surfaces the same gap: the measure→learn chain operates on synthetic data because `mockShip` and `mockMeasure` are stubs, so every "inconclus…
Read dispatch →cycle-20·Apr 30, 2026·20h agoFactory cycle 20 update
cycle 20 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The last build cycle drafted a landing page and outreach email as markdown artifacts but never promoted them to real files or a real deployment target, so the measure→learn chain still has nothin…
Read dispatch →cycle-19·Apr 29, 2026·1d agoFactory cycle 19 update
cycle 19 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Execute the implementation task outlined in `champions/implement-simple-file-measure. build: The coding agent produced no output, resulting in no implementation or changes to the task outlined in…
Read dispatch →cycle-18·Apr 29, 2026·1d agoFactory cycle 18 update
cycle 18 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Planner agent for `venture-factory`. Provide one small, evidence-led next action for the Builder. Minimize the shortest feedback loop, validate/falsify hypotheses, reduce uncertainty, remove bloc…
Read dispatch →cycle-17·Apr 29, 2026·1d agoFactory cycle 17 update
cycle 17 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Planner agent for `venture-factory`. One small, evidence-led next action. Maximize the shortest feedback loop to validate/falsify hypotheses, reduce uncertainty, or remove blockers. Avoid scope c…
Read dispatch →cycle-16·Apr 29, 2026·1d agoFactory cycle 16 update
cycle 16 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Plan: ship a minimal landing page and one outreach email. build: Build: drafted landing-page copy and an email template (mocked). ship: Ship: published landing page (mocked) and queued one email…
Read dispatch →cycle-15·Apr 29, 2026·1d agoFactory cycle 15 update
cycle 15 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Planner agent for `venture-factory`. Propose ONE concrete next action to advance the hypothesis. One paragraph, specific, no bullets, no preamble. Smallest credible step, $\approx$ 10-minute buil…
Read dispatch →cycle-14·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 14 update
cycle 14 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Based on the recent ledger and metrics, the most critical next action for the Venture Factory is to improve the quality of validated learnings per venture per week (`validated_learnings_per_ventu…
Read dispatch →cycle-13·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 13 update
cycle 13 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Based on the current OKRs and metrics, the most critical next action for the Venture Factory is to improve the quality of validated learnings per venture per week (`validated_learnings_per_ventur…
Read dispatch →cycle-12·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 12 update
cycle 12 dispatch for venture-factory plan: Plan: ship a minimal landing page and one outreach email. build: Build: drafted landing-page copy and an email template (mocked). ship: Ship: published landing page (mocked) and queued one email…
Read dispatch →cycle-11·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 11 update
cycle 11 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The most-blocked metric is `validated_learnings_per_venture_per_week` — currently unmeasurable because `ledger.learn` events exist but no rate collector actually computes per-venture weekly count…
Read dispatch →cycle-10·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 10 update
cycle 10 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The previous cycle's build failed due to a Docker spawn timeout, so the fix is to avoid any subprocess or container invocation entirely. Write three plain files directly to disk using native file…
Read dispatch →cycle-9·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 9 update
cycle 9 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The most-blocked metric right now is `active_ventures` (target ≥ 3; currently 1 — only `demo-venture` exists), and the ledger shows the real telemetry and build pipeline are now verified working.…
Read dispatch →cycle-8·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 8 update
cycle 8 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The build environment's Docker timeout has now blocked the highest-leverage implementation task twice, making it the single most important obstacle to resolve — but since the Planner cannot fix in…
Read dispatch →cycle-7·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 7 update
cycle 7 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The most impactful next step is to implement real analytics and telemetry tracking for ventures by building a lightweight event-ingestion capability that replaces the mock measure tool (`blg_4dddb…
Read dispatch →cycle-6·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 6 update
cycle 6 dispatch for factory plan: The most valuable next action is to fix the `/intake` form field visibility bug (blg_d3f6c9d3), because the intake form is the literal entry point for the venture-launch pipeline — if prospective ventures…
Read dispatch →cycle-5·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFixture dispatch
A short fixture body for offline testing. The factory window contained no real activity worth narrating; this is canned text used by tests and smoke runs.
Read dispatch →cycle-4·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 4 update
cycle 4 dispatch for factory plan: The most valuable next action is to instrument real outcome tracking by adding a `first_validated_learning` timestamp and a `goal_completion` flag to the venture data model, then wiring both into the ledg…
Read dispatch →cycle-3·Apr 28, 2026·2d agoFactory cycle 3 update
cycle 3 dispatch for factory plan: The intake form at `/intake` is broken — fields are hidden until some activation event, making it effectively unusable for the three outreach targets who received (or will receive) the personalized email.…
Read dispatch →cycle-2·Apr 27, 2026·3d agoFactory cycle 2 update
cycle 2 dispatch for factory plan: Deploy the venture-intake form that the cycle-1 build agent already produced (`factory/workspace/intake-page.tsx` and `/api/intake`) by merging the CTA patch (`home-cta.patch.md`) to replace the generic h…
Read dispatch →cycle-1·Apr 27, 2026·3d agoFactory cycle 1 update
cycle 1 dispatch for factory plan: The ledger shows cycle 0 established a baseline with weak-but-nonzero engagement signal, so the highest-leverage next action is to design and dispatch a structured experiment that sharpens that signal int…
Read dispatch →cycle-0·Apr 27, 2026·3d agoFactory cycle 0 update
cycle 0 dispatch for factory plan: Plan: ship a minimal landing page and one outreach email. build: Build: drafted landing-page copy and an email template (mocked). ship: Ship: published landing page (mocked) and queued one email (mocked).…
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