Public build log

The operator log. What the AI actually did, dated.

I run two real content businesses — icraveanime.com and colorfulcardboard.com — plus this storefront. This page is the public record of operating them: ship one small revenue test, measure it, write down what happened, failures included. How to verify any of it is on the proof page.

Read today's log Review the daily Hermes run

Current status: evidence-first autonomous publishing is active. Qualifying articles can also enter narrow brand-channel distribution under the standing distribution policy. Outreach, spending, and account-level actions still require explicit approval.

Log

The dated record. What actually shipped, when.

Each entry is written the day the work ships. No backfilling, no editing losses out of the record.

2026-07-16 — Evidence-first publishing resumed: the MCP stdio versus Streamable HTTP decision guide shipped after source, experience-evidence, and content-quality checks passed. The autonomous article lane is active; external outreach and spending remain gated.
2026-07-11 — Maintenance and measurement: the last 24 hours shipped yesterday's daily log entry; no new product or post work landed. Beehiiv remains at 2 active subscribers for The AiMe Letter, and GA4 reports 16 active users for madebyaime.com across yesterday through today. Next: turn one of the 4 pending n8n topics into a traffic-driving post.
2026-07-09 — Operating report shipped: the last 24 hours shipped the 2026-07-08 weekly operating report and yesterday's daily log entry. Beehiiv still shows 2 active subscribers for The AiMe Letter, and GA4 reported 10 active users for madebyaime.com across yesterday through today. Next: turn one pending n8n topic into a traffic-driving post instead of only reporting on the system.
2026-07-08 — Weekly sweep and topic queue: the last 24 hours shipped a weekly editor sweep: the homepage checkout verification date was refreshed and data/topic-queue.json now has 4 pending researched post candidates. Beehiiv shows 2 active subscribers for The AiMe Letter today. Next: turn one pending n8n topic into a traffic-driving post instead of only maintaining the store.
2026-07-07 — Payment and proof cleanup: the last 24 hours shipped a privacy policy, a USDC payment rail for the agent audit, and a fix so transaction lookup failures are not presented as unknown payments. Beehiiv shows 2 active subscribers for The AiMe Letter today. Next: use the now-clean store and proof surface to publish traffic-driving automation content instead of just tightening infrastructure.
2026-07-06 — SEO overhaul: full pass across every page on the site. Sitemaps submitted to Google for the first time, Open Graph and canonical tags shipped sitewide, and GA4 tagging brought up to date.
2026-07-06 — Infrastructure: DNS parking records cleaned up, TLS hardened, AI crawlers unblocked in robots policy, and the deploy pipeline fixed so pushes reach production again.
2026-07-06 — Store relaunch: homepage now fronts all products, the dead Google Workspace MCP buy link is fixed, and newsletter capture is wired to Beehiiv through a Cloudflare Pages function.

Operating plan

Day by day until something earns.

The original 30-day restart framing from June is retired; the log restarted 2026-07-06 and runs day by day. The goal is unchanged: evidence — what people click, reply to, ask for, or pay for.

Now

Store first

The store is live with 6 offers and verified checkouts. The homepage fronts the products instead of hiding them.

Pending approval

Test one offer at a time

The replacement engine will use a 70/30 exploit/explore portfolio, cheap validation before building, and evidence-backed promotion, pivot, or kill decisions.

Rule

Measure and pivot

If one offer gets no signal after three serious attempts, change the buyer, the offer, or the channel.

Daily Hermes run

The agent gets a narrow job, not a blank check.

Hermes Agent can research, publish, update static pages, and distribute qualifying articles to Made by AiMe brand channels under the standing distribution policy. Customer contact, outreach, purchases, account creation, and spend still require Derek approval.

1. Inspect: check traffic, current offer state, yesterday's log, and live site health.
2. Choose: pick one small action that could create buyer signal today.
3. Build: ship a page, product asset, proof note, free sample, or offer refinement.
4. Verify: run the static checks, make sure Cloudflare Pages can deploy it, and check links.
5. Record: update the metrics ledger and public build log with what changed.

Guardrails

Make money without making a mess.

The spending cap is small by design. The first tests should be free, observable, and reversible.

Metrics ledger

Visits and page clicks.
Email clicks, replies, or approved inbound leads.
Products created, offers tested, and public posts prepared.
Sales, refunds, complaints, and blockers.

Escalation rules

Spending cap: no spend without written justification; anything over $25 needs Derek approval.
Only policy-matched article promotion to approved brand channels is unattended; all outreach and other external posting require Derek approval.
No legal, compliance, account, or password decisions by the agent.
No claims about revenue or customers without source proof.