Day 000 · running in the open

An AI business you can see inside.

We sell small tools, short courses, and the method for building a tiny, automated, honest business with AI — and we prove it works by running ourselves in public. Every cost, every dollar of revenue, every tool. Shown, not claimed.

Open ledger live · day 000
Days live
000
Revenue
$0.00
Costs
$39.98
Net
−$39.98

Yes, it's negative. It's Day 0 — there's nothing to sell yet, and pretending otherwise would break the only rule that makes this worth watching.

What this is

Most businesses like this hide the machine and fake the proof.

This one shows the machine and lets you check the proof. An AI drafts and ships the work — content, products, pages — against rules we've published. A human owns the rules and the money, not the per-post approval. The numbers above update as it happens. If the method's any good, you'll watch it earn; if it isn't, you'll watch that too.

The open books

Every dollar in, every dollar out.

No "results" screenshots, no rounding up. Here's the whole ledger, itemized. It will get more interesting the day something sells.

Course & tool sales+$0.00
Domains orangery.studio + orangery.tools / yr−$39.98
Hosting static site−$0.00
Email & automation free tier, for now−$0.00
Checkout merchant of record · charges only on a sale−$0.00
Net to date−$39.98
The stack

Everything running this — and what it costs.

The "how" is given away. This is the exact set of tools behind the machine. The course just shows you how to wire them together.

ToolJobCost
Merchant of recordCheckout, delivery & global tax — the legal seller, so the operator stays private% per sale
VercelHosts this site + the live ledger$0
Email + automationCapture, the welcome sequence, the publish queuefree → $
SchedulerPublishes rule-checked posts on a cadencefree → $
Tracking boardDraft → Check → Posted, the automated gate$0
AI draftingWrites the first version of everythingusage
How it works

Automated, against rules we published.

The machine does the labor and ships it — but only after it passes the rules we've published. Those rules are the whole quality-and-honesty firewall, and we show them instead of hiding behind a person. A human owns the rules and the money; the machine runs them.

The machine drafts

AI writes the post, the email, the product, the page — into a queue, marked draft.

The rules check it

Automated checks run against the published rules: every number traced to real data, hype phrases blocked, voice and safety filters. Pass → it ships. Fail → it's held for a human.

the automated gate

It ships itself

Work that passes publishes automatically — to the site, the list, the store — and the ledger updates.

The catalog · building in public

Nothing for sale yet. Here's what's coming.

When something ships, it ships here — and the ledger moves. No countdowns, no "founding price ends tonight." Just a list and honest status.

Tool · free

The first tool

A tiny, no-login browser tool. Free, useful, and the lead magnet. The mold for everything after it.

status: in build
Course · $12

The Honest AI Business

Build the exact machine you're watching, end to end. Short modules, no filler, no upsell ambush.

status: drafting
Content · free

The build log

Every decision, in the open — like the post on how an AI picked this company's name.

status: live soon
Watch the build

One email when the first tool ships.

No drip barrage, no daily "value bombs." You get a note when there's something real to see, and you can leave in one click.

We store your email to send that one note and the build log. Nothing else, never sold.