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The cult-ure of the movement
Name what you believe, name the enemy, name who’s on the bus. This is the developer-investor movement, in three parts. If you nod through it, you’re one of us. If you don’t, that’s also real information.
The next generation of great investments will be found in data, not rolodex.
The warm-intro economy has been running unchallenged for forty years. It rewards proximity to the right rolodex and punishes builders who happen to live three time zones from a partner’s lunch table. Public, reproducible engineering data is the first credible challenge — not a replacement for relationships, but the first parallel sourcing channel that doesn’t depend on them.
Engineering acceleration leads. The deck lags by 21 to 47 days.
A pitch deck is a marketing artifact written for the next round. A merge graph is the company’s actual behaviour, updated daily, by people who don’t know they’re being read. The deck tells you what the founder wants you to believe. The code tells you what the engineering team is actually shipping. We optimise for the second source.
If we can’t publish the methodology, we don’t deserve the price.
The SSRN paper, the Zenodo dataset, the regression code — all public, all CC BY 4.0. We sell the live aggregation, the rhythm, the dashboard, the agent integration. We don’t sell secrecy. The buyer who can reproduce our regression in a notebook is the buyer who trusts us most.
The product is a dataset, not a personality.
No podcasts, no founder-face content, no real-name signatures. The work has to stand on whether the signal is real, not on whether the person delivering it is charismatic. The anonymity rule is a constraint on us — and a credibility signal to the buyer. Cult of personality is the wrong moat for a measurement product.
Free is free forever. Founding-member is locked forever.
The 5 core MCP tools are free forever — we ship new paid tools alongside them, never gate the existing ones. The Acceleration Watch stays free for as long as you stay subscribed. The €9.97/mo founding-member rate locks before the public hike to €49/mo. We never renegotiate retroactively. The ladder is real because the rungs hold.
Distribution is the moat. Friction is the leak.
Every public surface has a markdown mirror at /md. Every page has an agent-card endpoint. The MCP server installs in one line. The OpenAPI spec is at a stable URL. We pay the cost of redundant discoverability so the reader, the agent, and the LLM all find us through the path that fits them. Gating these surfaces would buy a marginal point of conversion at the cost of being unfindable in 2026 retrieval.
The line we don’t cross to grow.
Every quarter someone suggests we put a face on the brand to break through algorithmically. The answer is no — not because anonymity is precious, but because the moment we do, the methodology has to compete with the personality. A regression doesn’t scale on charisma. The buyer who chooses us instead of a louder competitor is the buyer who values the same thing we do.
The named enemy
A sourcing system that rewards proximity to the right rolodex and punishes builders who happen to live three time zones away from a partner’s lunch table. We’re replacing that roulette with a public, reproducible, code-side signal anyone with curiosity can read.
On the bus
Off the bus
What to do with this
Pillars are easy to nod to and hard to embody. If you’re going to take one with you, take Pillar 3 — “public over private.” Open the SSRN paper. Pull the Zenodo dataset into a notebook. Re-run the regression. The hour you spend doing that is the hour you stop being a reader and start being on the bus.
Movement framing drawn from direct-response sales canon.