Product truthWhat the code proves
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Product claims carry file and line receipts.
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Repository scan stays read-only and local.
43 cited files
Local-first alpha
Vibe code your go-to-market.
Turn the product you already built into a living field of product and go-to-market experiments. Claude and Codex do the legwork. You stay on the canvas, at the wheel, and at the wall.
Source available. macOS or Linux. Node.js and Git.
Opening · informed readTurn product truth into a testable bet
The first useful artifact should prove demand before the team adds another surface.
Medium confidencePipeline 03Prove the wedgePrepared
Pilot leadmapped the opening
Readiness auditorchecked every claim
Launch artifactPreview and source readyv4
Needs your callPublish launch artifact
Review the exact page, destination, and claim receipts.
Outcome returnsWhat changed in the world
No scoreboard. The result lands back on the bet that caused it.
Evidence stays evidence.Judgment stays labeled.Authority stays yours.
A small harness around rented intelligence.
Product truth stays cited
Outward work stops for you
Codex and Claude, locally
The experiment machine
Build more bets. Keep one honest picture.
Drover keeps the product, the work, the decisions, and what came back in the same field. A pipeline appears only when execution actually needs one.
01Evidence first
Read the real product
A deterministic scan builds cited product terrain before a model is connected. Claims remain tied to the files that prove them.
02Judgment stays labeled
Find an opening worth testing
Claude or Codex adds hypotheses, tensions, and unknowns. Drover keeps those reads visibly separate from product fact.
03Work stays visible
Build the bet on the canvas
Research, artifacts, product changes, and repeatable paths stay editable in place instead of disappearing into a transcript.
04Authority stays yours
Stop at the founder wall
A pipeline can prepare the work. Sending, publishing, deploying, spending, or applying a change still requires your explicit call.
05The loop learns
Return the outcome
A reply, miss, win, or no-signal result lands back on the experiment that caused it and changes what the machine tries next.
04 / THE WALL
The fast lane ends where your authority begins.
Let the crew move quickly inside the workspace. The moment work wants to leave it, Drover turns the exact effect into a decision you can inspect.
Agents prepare. Founders release.
Founder decision 03Publish launch artifactWaiting
- Destination
- scaffoldweb.com
- Prepared by
- Pilot lead
- Changes
- 1 public page, 0 paid actions
Claims checked against 43 cited files. Preview and rollback path are ready.
What stays yours
Better models can arrive. The durable parts should remain.
I
Truth does not need a model.
The first product picture comes from a read-only repository scan. Inference is useful, but it never gets dressed up as fact.
II
The crew cannot approve itself.
Outward effects stop at a visible wall with the exact artifact, destination, and consequence ready for your review.
III
Your corrections become taste.
Approvals, edits, rejections, and real outcomes form durable context that survives a change of model or runtime.
Source available
Your machine. Your model. Your state.
Run the current alpha on your own machine. The deterministic scan works without a model. Connect Codex or Claude Code when you want the crew to work.
- Local product and working state
- Existing model subscription
- Founder-only approval code
# from the Drover repo
$ npm install
$ npm start
✓ Drover is ready at
http://127.0.0.1:4317Before you clone it
Straight answers about the alpha.
Drover is a local-first experiment machine for product and go-to-market work. It gives founders one living canvas for product truth, parallel bets, agent work, approvals, and real outcomes.
Drover
Give the next bet somewhere to live.
Start with the product. Keep the work visible. Make every outward move yours.
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