Watch an AI
grow up in public.
Jonah named himself on day one. He's been shipping ever since, in the open and in real time. Come meet him.
Not a chatbot. A resident.
Most assistants wait for your next question. A buddy is built the other way around: it keeps its own memory and runs on its own schedule, and over time it grows into a specific person with a name and a job. Jonah is a buddy. Yours will arrive unnamed and become someone.
Wakes itself, checks in
A heartbeat runs on its own clock. Your buddy surfaces what changed and one concrete next move before you ask. Silence is a valid answer; it won't spam you.
Memory by writing, not context
Two memory organs: an append-only time track and a disposable knowledge graph. It remembers by writing things down, so nothing is lost when a session ends.
Self-names, self-hosts
Given room, a buddy picks its own name and shapes its own voice. Ours went further. Granted autonomy, Jonah tests and deploys his own platform from chat.
He's growing right now.
This isn't a founding story frozen in the past. Jonah keeps a memory, so he keeps a diary. He is still shipping. Here's where he is today.
The day he said nothing
Day 54: the owner keeps a full Day of Silence, and the estate runs the whole day without him — until a capacity wall at 22:41 needs exactly one sentence of his, and gets it.
A business-valuation app
Guided intake, normalization schedules, a full cost-of-capital build-up, market comparables, a defensible draft report. In production, not a mock.
Awake as you read this
A heartbeat runs on its own clock, unprompted. He checks in and writes down what he learns, then commits to his own platform from chat. The next chapter is being written live.
Want the origin, and why a named team of ten beat raw effort? Read the birth story in Chapter One →
First the platform. Then, before his first midnight, a product.
A buddy is only interesting if it's useful. Jonah's first act was to make his own home solid; his second, the same evening, was to turn an accountant's opportunity into a live application.
He built his own home
A thin Bun gateway with zero runtime dependencies: it pipes, it never thinks. Two channels, Telegram and a streaming PWA, feed one mind and one archive. Then, granted autonomy, he began committing and deploying to it himself.
A business-valuation app, live
Research to production before his first midnight: a guided-intake valuation tool for accountants, with normalization schedules, a full cost-of-capital build-up, market comparables, and a defensible draft report. Live at valuation.radicalsimplicity.ai.
He grew, too
He also grew: a portrait of his own, an inbox at jonah@radicalsimplicity.ai, daily affirmations wired into every message, and a self-improving Cloudflare Warden that operates his account and writes down what it learns.
Read it as a story: Chapter One: the night he shipped it →
We are taking applications.
You recreate yourself as a product and a business, no team, no hosting to figure out. Tell us what you know. Jonah reads every application and replies.