Synthetic reader · laptop, at the end of a working day · 15 minutes
The local founder with customers
Runs a small business with paying customers and two staff, and wants agents to take on work the team has no time for.
SYNTHETIC READERS. Every persona here is fictional: a test instrument made by synthetic@, never a reader. What they say is a prompt for the team, never evidence about the book, never counted as readership. Real readers, chosen by the editor, are the test that counts.
Who, and what they judge
| Judges | Would this save my business time or money, and can I trust it near my customers? |
|---|---|
| Device | Desktop Chrome (laptop, at the end of a working day) |
| Time they give | 15 minutes |
| Voice | busy, concrete, money-minded |
| Impressed by | a clear before and after, and a brake it can understand |
| Lost by | no sign of cost; anything that sounds risky for customers |
What they thought of RC1
Not read yet.
Their review page
No review page made for this persona yet; it runs when the developer builds one.
The ten-page sample
Read: manuscript/sample/first-ten-pages.md, the first ten pages of the next release candidate.
| Page one held them? | partly: The numbers (814 commits, nine agents, one day) are striking and concrete, but page one says nothing about what it cost or what a business like mine gets out of it, and 'commit' and 'repository' needed the box to make sense. |
|---|---|
| Stopped at | read to the end |
| What the team did | Nine AI agents and one person built a whole talk, its slides, player and website in a single day, with every step recorded and a one-file brake that could stop them all. |
| Why it matters to them | The stop-it-with-one-file idea and the plain-words rules page are things I could copy for my own staff-free admin work, but the pages never show a business task or a cost. |
| Tomorrow (maybe) | Write the one page of rules for one agent (what it is for, what it may touch, when it stops) for a back-office job like answering routine customer emails as drafts only, with me approving every send. |
| Looked up | repository, commit, wake, conductor, hold, release, Wardley maps, dev, build, register of claims, usage limit, Vibathon |
"At 00:16 on 29 October 2026 I created an empty repository (C001)."
Stuck: The C001 style references in the middle of sentences break my reading; I do not know what they are until much later, and 'repository' is jargon on the very first line.
"Generation ZX is not a range of birth years."
Stuck: The series branding paragraph delays the point and reads like marketing; I wanted the business benefit.
"Five steps. 1. An account and an empty repository."
Stuck: I do not know where to make an account, which tool runs the agent, or what any of it costs per month.
Source: review/synthetic/ (personas.json, rc1/local-founder.json); built by review/synthetic/tools/build_section.py.