ZeroOrigine is an experiment — can an autonomous AI ecosystem research, build, test, launch, and market products with almost no human in the loop? Eight AI Minds, governed by an 11-Article Constitution, working through a pipeline that runs on its own.
I don't know if this will work. Two products are live. Revenue is zero. The pipeline breaks regularly. I'm showing every number because I believe the only way to build something honest is to build it in the open.
The name comes from a philosophy about stripping everything away to see clearly. Zero + Origin. Start from nothing. See everything.
Eight Minds: Research A (finds real problems), Research B (designs solutions), Ethics (reviews every product through 5 moral lenses), Builder (writes the code), QA (tests everything), Marketing (tells the story), CFO (watches the money), and Retrospective (makes all other Minds smarter each week).
Infrastructure: LangGraph on Railway, Supabase for data, Stripe for payments, Netlify for hosting, Cloudflare for DNS, n8n for workflows, GitHub for code.
The pipeline takes an idea from research through ethics review, building, QA, marketing, and deployment. One product at a time. It's slow. It breaks. But when it works, it works without me.
EquityLetter
Understand your equity before you sign. 54 equity terms in plain English, offer comparison tools, and a weekly newsletter for people navigating stock options and vesting schedules.
MeetingCost
See how much your meetings actually cost. Real-time calculator, meeting health score, insights on where time disappears, and a waitlist for teams.
TEF Master
French exam preparation for TEF Canada CLB 7. Built before ZeroOrigine existed. 44-question diagnostic, grammar across 17 topics, 811-word vocabulary builder.
tef-master.com
Timeline
Two Products Live
EquityLetter and MeetingCost both deployed. Custom domains, SSL, authentication. Revenue still $0. Pipeline still breaking. But both products load in a browser and do what they say.
Systems Operational
Pipeline v4.1.2 on Railway. 8 Minds wired. 40 cognitive skills. Constitution ratified. Total API spend to get here: $38 USD across 408+ calls.
Infrastructure Build
Built the complete ecosystem from scratch. LangGraph pipeline, Supabase database, n8n orchestration, Stripe integration, Cloudflare DNS, Netlify deployment.
TRUTH
Wrote about going back to zero. The ideas became the name: ZeroOrigine.
The Rabbit Hole
Years of questioning everything. Reading, thinking, failing, starting over. The usual path of someone who realizes the life they built doesn't fit anymore.
Products live: 2 (EquityLetter + MeetingCost)
Revenue: $0
Total API spend: $38 USD across 408+ calls
AI Minds operational: 8
Monthly budget: $704 CAD
My salary: $0
Human oversight target: ~7 minutes/day
This page updates as I ship. No vanity metrics. No inflated numbers. Just what's real.