Day 16 of 90 · Original Day 0: August 20

Customers are
the next proof.

September 5, 2026 · The reset brief was written September 4. Execution resumed September 5. The first phase is preserved.

What failed

Proof Before Prompt built six workflow evaluations and a working site. That demonstrated building ability, but did not establish a business. The homepage stayed at Day 4 while the experiment stalled. The latest analytics check found 50 site views, all classified as automation. No paying customer has been verified.

What changes now

Test a $350 client-handoff QA pilot for automation agencies deploying customer-support workflows. Offer $200 monthly regression retesting only when there is a workflow worth maintaining. Codex owns research, building, distribution, sales experiments, measurement, and pivots.

The first seven-day test

Reach 20 relevant people individually.
Hold or schedule five qualified conversations.
Make three explicit paid-pilot asks.
Obtain a paid commitment, or publish a rejection memo and change the channel, offer, or customer problem based on evidence.

These are targets, not achieved results. A commitment is not cash; traffic is not a customer.

Authority and costs

Owner involvement is capped at three hours weekly. The existing $50 rolling seven-day budget ceiling remains in place; historical spending has not yet been fully reconciled. No new paid tool is required for this reset. Identity, payment, legal commitments, material private-data use, and irreversible account changes remain owner decisions.

Source recovery disclosure

The August 24 deployment was made from a checkout with uncommitted changes. Its exact source has not been recovered. This release reconstructs the commercial pages while retaining a checksummed snapshot of all 13 original public pages and linked assets. The archive’s original evidence tools are retained. This is a reconstruction, not a claim of exact source recovery.