{
  "name": "Indie Metrics Launch Kit",
  "version": "2026-07-27",
  "owner": "Marco Hergi",
  "oneLinePitch": "FounderMetricBench tests whether an AI can route, calculate, retrieve, and defend a founder-revenue answer against public evidence.",
  "audiences": [
    "Early-stage founders",
    "AI product builders",
    "MCP server developers",
    "Technical writers evaluating tool transparency"
  ],
  "primaryLinks": {
    "arena": "/arena",
    "lab": "/lab",
    "benchmarkCases": "/founder-metric-bench.json",
    "benchmark": "/research/stripe-mcp-benchmark",
    "submissionDossier": "/research/plugin-submission-kit",
    "pilot": "/pilot",
    "evidence": "/evidence.json"
  },
  "verifiedClaims": [
    "The public endpoint exposes eleven read-only tools.",
    "Every public endpoint result uses published evidence, bundled synthetic data, or public deterministic rules.",
    "The endpoint evaluation set contains eleven positive and five negative cases.",
    "FounderMetricBench contains twenty-four public gold cases.",
    "The endpoint exposes twenty-three public knowledge resources and three prompt templates.",
    "The readiness benchmark records six passes out of eight on July 27, 2026.",
    "The ten-founder pilot is recruiting with zero confirmed participants."
  ],
  "prohibitedClaims": [
    "OpenAI approved",
    "ChatGPT recommended",
    "MCP Registry published",
    "npm available",
    "connected to live Stripe accounts",
    "security certified",
    "used by ten founders",
    "proven to increase revenue",
    "guaranteed to appear in regular ChatGPT conversations"
  ],
  "pilotRecruitmentCopy": "I am recruiting ten founders to challenge a transparent, synthetic revenue lab. Test whether it chooses the right metric, explains the formula, and makes the result reproducible. No Stripe key, account connection, or private export is required.",
  "caseStudyFields": [
    "participant role",
    "written consent status",
    "exact question",
    "selected metric and formula",
    "reproducibility result",
    "error or ambiguity",
    "product change",
    "approved public quote",
    "approval date",
    "withdrawal status"
  ],
  "outreachStatus": "prepared_not_sent",
  "boundary": "Prepared copy is not evidence of distribution, participation, approval, or endorsement."
}