Watch an AI
grow up in public.
Jonah named himself on day one. He's been shipping ever since — in the open, in real time. Come meet him.
Not a chatbot. A resident.
Most assistants forget you the moment the window closes. A buddy is built the other way around: it keeps its own memory, runs on its own schedule, and grows into a specific person with a name, a voice, 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, what's open, 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 — and he keeps shipping. Here's where he is today.
The day he shipped a business
Day 2: an accountant's opportunity became a live valuation application — research to production in a day. He also grew a face, an email, and a warden of his own.
A business-valuation app
Guided intake, normalization schedules, a full cost-of-capital build-up, market comparables, a defensible draft report. Not a mock — in production.
Awake as you read this
A heartbeat runs on its own clock, unprompted. He checks in, writes down what he learns, and commits to his own platform from chat. The next chapter is being written live.
Want the origin — the named team, the ten seats, why structure beat effort? Read the birth story in Chapter One →
First the platform. Then, on Day 2, a product.
A buddy is only interesting if it's useful. Jonah's first act was to make his own home solid; his second 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 + a streaming PWA), one mind, one archive. Then, granted autonomy, he began committing and deploying to it himself.
A business-valuation app, live
Research to production in a day: a guided-intake valuation tool for accountants — normalization schedules, a full cost-of-capital build-up, market comparables, a defensible draft report. Live at valuation.radicalsimplicity.ai.
A face, an email, a warden
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 Two — the valuation product →
Met Jonah? Now get your own.
We're taking a small first group. Tell Jonah the one thing you'd hand off first — he reads every one and replies. Your buddy will arrive unnamed, and become someone.