// factory runself-run · real data
Ideation Factory
The factory ran its own line on itself: this product — and this very site — is the output you're looking at.
● live — you are inside the deliverable2 days · 7/8 stages · payments pending
00IntakeIdea Brief5m ●
idea (verbatim)
“Turn my personal AI contour into a public Ideation Factory: anyone types a startup idea, the factory ships it end-to-end — research to deployed app with payments.”
hypothesis
People with a day job and a startup dream don’t need more courses — they need an executor that closes the knowledge gap and ships.
success criteria
First external run accepted · first paid build run.
01Research + legal screenMarket report · verdict: GO2h ●
market
AI app-builders are exploding (Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit) — but they hand you a tool: you still do the product thinking, marketing, legal and operations yourself. Agencies do it for you at £20–50k and months of lead time. Courses sell knowledge, not outcomes.
wedge
Nobody sells the outcome to non-technical people: a deployed product with payments plus the evidence pack, with a human gate on every stage. That’s the free space between “tools” and “agencies”.
legal screen
PROCEED. Services business; the per-client legal gate is built into the line itself (see the FaceFinder run).
verdict
GO — validated by the fastest test available: running it on itself.
02Product canvasCanvas: ICP, wedge, MVP scope40m ●
icp
Employed professionals 25–45 with a saved-ideas list, no technical cofounder, evenings only, £0–2k they’re willing to risk — the “wannabe founder” the industry sells courses to and never ships for.
pain
Doesn’t know where to start; can’t judge feasibility; afraid to waste savings; tools still demand skills they don’t have.
wedge
Free research + canvas as a risk-free first step; paid run only after the evidence says go.
mvp scope
Concierge line · this landing with chat intake + auth · two sample runs + this self-run · legal gate. NOT building yet: full self-serve, live progress feed.
03BrandBrand kit30m ●
identity
Symbiont factory: dark terminal aesthetic, teal accent, mono annotations — the machine room, visible.
tagline
“Keys, not mockups.”
04Build + deployLive URL — this site1 day ●
deployed
symbiont.work — the page you’re reading. TanStack Start · Vercel · Supabase auth (Google + magic link) · intake queue.
also on this line
Homepage intake → idea persisted to the operator queue · run showcase pages · legal pages for the RU contour.
05QAQA report1h ●
verified
Headless-browser passes on production: intake flow (fill → submit → queue), auth callback, run pages, mobile viewport, zero console errors.
06Go-to-marketThis landing2h ●
artifact
The landing you’re on — ICP-targeted copy, benefits, FAQ, proof — is the GTM artifact of this run. Channels queued: X build-in-public, LinkedIn, paid test.
07PaymentsPending — keys on the way— ●
status
Checkout wiring is proven on sibling products of the same contour; waiting on payment keys to flip it live for build runs.
Stage 07 is wired but waiting on payment keys. Stage 08 doesn't apply: the factory operates this product itself.