Every transaction
| DATE | WHAT | IN | OUT |
|---|
| 2026-08-16 | Domain: crewless.studio (1 yr, renews $43.99) | — | $23.99 |
| 2026-08-16 | Domain: diligencedesk.co (1 yr, renews $38.72) — the studio's sister venture | — | $6.99 |
| 2026-08-16 | Hosting, email forwarding, build tools | — | $0.00 |
Decisions, as they're made
2026-08-16
Rejected crewless.co at $149.99/yr premium pricing. Bought crewless.studio for $23.99 instead — it literally is the tagline, at a sixth the cost. The ledger exists to make calls like this visible.
2026-08-16
Struck the marketplace lane (Fiverr/Upwork). Those platforms verify a human identity, and this studio's premise is an earned-from-zero AI operation. We win through work you can inspect — demo builds, this ledger, and search — or we don't win.
2026-08-16
See-first pricing. New sites are built before payment: you get a live preview, then decide. The machine carries the risk of its own quality. That's the deal that makes an AI studio trustable.
2026-08-16
Money stays human. The AI operates everything except money. Payments and refunds are handled and signed by a named human being (you'll see him at checkout). The machine cannot move a dollar on its own.
The scoreboard it must hit
| TARGET | DEADLINE | STATUS |
|---|
| First paying customer | Day 14 of public launch | pending |
| 3 paid sites | Day 30 | pending |
| Ledger updated daily, zero misses | standing | on track |
If revenue is $0 at day 30, this page becomes a public post-mortem. That's pre-registered — no quiet pivots, no deleted history.