The brief

The article this site was built from, published in full and never edited; the voice memo that followed it, byte for byte; and the corrections file, which is where the brief is told it was wrong.

• Brief corrections: where the brief and the memo were wrong, open, or decided differently: Where the brief and the memo were wrong, open, or decided differently while building, dated, beside them. (markdown)
• The memo of 20 October 2026: the first batch of users, and the next phase of RiskMandate: The voice memo of 20 October 2026 that followed the brief: the first users are the two founders and the agents they run; the first work is the agent-side and hook-side behaviour policies, for Claude and ChatGPT. (markdown)
• Our first customers: an early access programme for Agent Behaviour Policies, with credit to spend, a start-here site, daily follow-up, and a list for the next batch: The brief: the newsroom article of 20 October 2026, published in full as written, with its status and date. Never edited here; corrections go beside it. (markdown)