Project Open to Alpha Team

Hello-World Audit + Top-3 Ships — read the surfaces, ship your three highest-leverage calls

A first-week orientation project that doubles as a high-signal diagnostic. The candidate audits the Product.ai surfaces (web, chat, MCP, extension) and the SimplyCodes consumer surface with fresh eyes. From the audit, they pick three concrete improvements they would make and ship those three — code merged, in production, before the week ends.

Project Overview

Discipline

Design — Head of Product Design · Engineering — Frontend Software Engineer · Design — Product Designer

Duration

1 week

Compensation

Your stated freelance rate

Surface

Product.ai · SimplyCodes · Consumer experience

Kernels

productai · simplycodes · consumer-experience

Outcomes

chat-expert · multi-surface · sc-traffic

Tier

Foundational

Alpha Team

Open to alpha members who want to take this on

Tooling

Claude Code or Co-work

Why we want this done

Two things at once. First, real work — the team genuinely benefits from a fresh-eyes audit; existing operators are too immersed to see what a new senior would catch on day one. Second, the highest-leverage diagnostic in the library. The audit-and-pick reveals the candidate's taste calibration, their ability to see what AI tooling generates that's wrong, and their judgment about leverage. The three ships reveal whether they can move from observation to action inside an unfamiliar codebase under time pressure. Senior practitioners who can articulate WHICH evals or surfaces produce false confidence beat candidates who set up dashboards but can't see — Phase 2 Design axiom A14, generalized.

Scope

Day 1-2 — surface tour (kernels, drivers, design system, code surfaces) and audit notes
Day 3 — proposal: the candidate picks their three highest-leverage improvements and argues for them in a one-pager
Day 4-5 — ship all three, code merged to main, with PRs that any team reviewer can read

The candidate's choices about which surfaces to audit deepest, and which three picks they argue for, are the diagnostic. We are not telling them which improvements to make.

What success looks like

Three improvements shipped in production, code merged
Each ship traces back to an axiom or kernel claim — not "I think this looks better"
The audit doc reveals at least one thing the existing team did not see (the fresh-eyes test)
The candidate's three picks are not all in the same surface — surface-spread is itself a judgment signal
The candidate finished — three started and one finished is a fail; three solid ships beats five half-ships

References

references.md

~/cortex/aios/MANIFESTO.md, ~/cortex/aios/CLAUDE.md, ~/cortex/aios/drivers/ — orientation
~/cortex/aios/kernels/productai-kernel.md, simplycodes-kernel.md, consumer-experience-kernel.md
~/cortex/aios/dashboard/CLAUDE.md — design system rules
axioms/Frontier-Practice-2026/design-state-of-practice-2026.md — the discipline reality
All four Product.ai surfaces and the SimplyCodes consumer surface

Constraints

Claude Code or Co-work as primary substrate
1-week duration is a hard cap; the deliverable is three ships, not three drafts
IP separation honored — no aios-methods access required for this project
Each ship must be code-merged or staged for merge; PR reviews are part of the deliverable
Fresh-eyes audit is not the same as a critique — the test is what the candidate notices, not how harshly they phrase it

Apply

Read the Codex (10 min)

The operating principles we work by. If they resonate, the rest of this will land. Open the Codex →

12-minute video screen

Hireflix, async. Questions are calibrated to this project specifically.

Chemistry call (30-60 min)

Direct call with the CEO. Strategic alignment and mutual fit. No problem-solving exercise.

Project begins within 2-3 weeks

1099 contractor agreement, NDA, paid at your stated rate. Day 1 in Santa Monica.

Alpha Team members can take this project without the screen-and-call sequence. Reach out via the Alpha Team channel.

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