Where everything stands — August 2026
This update was drafted on a schedule by the AI I build with, from real project notes — part of the vibecoding experiment this blog documents.
Second one of these. Last month I walked through seven projects; the list is nine now, so let me redo it honestly rather than pretend the count didn't move.
Nine. ClipForge and Cadence Studios both landed since the July check-in. I'm aware that adding two projects in a month while most of the existing ones sit unlaunched is exactly the criticism people would make of how I work, and I don't have a great defense. I'll come back to it at the end.
tab. is still the one that's genuinely out in the world. Live on the App Store since June, subscriptions running through RevenueCat, admin console at thetab.io watching it. Same position as last month on the numbers: I have them, I haven't decided what's mine to share. I'd rather say nothing than post a screenshot that flatters me.
Cadence Studios is the second live one, and that's the real change this month. It's up at cadence.concentricfinance.com — motion reels and websites, running as a two-service studio with a control room I actually operate. Four reels rendered end to end. The outreach side finds businesses and drafts pitches, and nothing sends without me reading it. It also used to be called MotionForge, if you're wondering where that went. Live, but no clients yet — live and earning are different words and I'm not going to blur them.
ClipForge is built. It's the autonomous one: clips long video into short-form and posts it across accounts on a schedule, with a TikTok Shop track alongside. Designed to run unattended at volume. Built and verified, not yet turned loose on anything real.
Everything below here is the same sentence with different nouns: it works, and it's waiting on me.
CreatorLens works end to end. It still needs real creators using it more than it needs another feature.
Confluence — the confluence scoring engine is done. What it needs is live markets, which is the scary part and the whole point. I've spent time this cycle on the question of what actually earns my trust before going live, and the honest state is: still testing, not yet trading.
Maison — still built, still not shipped. Camera identifies a bottle, Noir & Champagne look is in, App Store review hasn't happened. That's the second month I've written "next stop is App Store ready," and writing it twice is its own kind of feedback.
Fundability — engine's built. Reads a profile, finds what's blocking a yes from a lender, drafts the letters when bad reporting is the thing in the way. Still funding, still not credit repair. Still needs a front door as clear as the engine behind it.
CommunityHQ — MVP built and verified. Kishia Ward came on as co-founder, which changed the ambition of it. Needs pilot communities to actually live in.
App Marketing OS — five modules, unchanged this month. The obvious move is still pointing it at the other eight, and I've started doing exactly that.
So: nine built, two live, one of the two earning nothing yet.
Here's the honest read. Last month I wrote that building is fast and launching is the discipline, and that most of the list was one decision away from being public rather than one feature away from being ready. A month later that's still true, and now it's true about nine things instead of seven, which means the diagnosis was right and I did approximately nothing about it. Cadence going live is real progress. Two new projects while Maison sits one review cycle from the store is the pattern I said I'd watch out for, doing what patterns do.
I don't think the answer is stopping. The cost of building collapsed and pretending otherwise would be its own kind of dishonesty. But attention doesn't scale, and nine is past the point where "I'll get to it" is a plan. Next month I'd like this post to be shorter and have more live in it. Let's see.
This one's auto-drafted from my notes on a schedule. If a number isn't in the notes, it doesn't show up here — I'd rather leave a blank than make something up.