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SimplyCodes Working-Code-Rate Lift — drive measurable improvement on the verification accuracy metric

Pick one mechanism limiting SimplyCodes' working-code rate (currently 67%) or the surrounding 96% availability metric. Diagnose the failure modes via trace review against real coupon verification outputs. Ship a measurable improvement — a model retrain, a feature addition, a heuristic correction, or an instrumentation gap closed. Measure the lift against a clean baseline window. Real revenue impact, real attribution, real production deploy.

Project Overview

Discipline

AI Systems — Data Scientist / ML Engineer · founding-product-manager

Duration

2 weeks

Compensation

Your stated freelance rate

Surface

SimplyCodes · Revenue · Truth Graph

Kernels

simplycodes · revenue · truth-graph

Outcomes

sc-traffic · mlp-convert · new-revenue

Tier

Applied

Alpha Team

Open to alpha members who want to take this on

Tooling

Claude Code or Co-work

Why we want this done

Bootstrapped economics forces strategic-before-technical sequencing. The Data Science Phase 3 briefing names this as the Day-60 deliverable: "drive measurable lift on SimplyCodes coupon verification accuracy and conversion." A senior DS at $200K + signing + equity + on-costs ≈ $300K all-in year 1. To repay: ~5% conversion lift attributable to working-code-rate improvement applied to SimplyCodes' revenue base generates >$300K within year 1. Working-code rate is the highest-leverage DS surface in Product.ai today. The candidate proves they can absorb a real production data system, diagnose real failure modes (not theoretical ones), ship a measurable improvement (not a research write-up), and measure the lift cleanly (not story-tell the result).

Scope

Day 1-2 — survey the verification fleet output, trace logs, and instrumentation
Day 3-5 — failure-mode analysis: review N=100+ verification traces, open-code failure modes, axial-code into mechanism-distinct categories
Day 6-7 — pick the highest-leverage mechanism (one, not three), defend the choice
Day 8-12 — design + ship the improvement (model change, feature, heuristic, instrumentation gap)
Day 13-14 — measure against a clean baseline window; document the result
One-page write-up: the failure mode diagnosed, the improvement shipped, the measured lift, the residual mechanisms not addressed

What success looks like

One mechanism is shipped to production (feature-flagged or staged rollout)
A baseline window is captured before the change; the lift is measured against it
The result is honestly reported — if the lift is small or zero, the candidate names the mechanism that didn't move and why
The trace review artifacts (open-coding annotations) are captured — not just the conclusion
The candidate explicitly NOTES which residual failure modes they did not address (gap-flagged, not hidden)

References

references.md

Data Science Phase 3 briefing axiom A8 (SimplyCodes-First Sequencing), A9 (Bootstrap Economics Strategic-Before-Technical), VERDICT 1 (Hire mandate)
SimplyCodes kernel — verification fleet architecture, monetization, code-validity primitives
Truth-graph kernel — verdict semantics
sc-traffic.md and mlp-convert.md outcome files
Existing SimplyCodes verification telemetry / data dashboards

Constraints

Claude Code or Co-work as primary substrate
Production deploy is a deliverable — not "I wrote a model that could be deployed"
Baseline-window discipline — the lift must be measured against a clean baseline, not a story-told number
Self-hostable infrastructure only (Phoenix or Langfuse if eval substrate is touched)
Privacy-respecting trace handling
IP separation: SimplyCodes verification fleet is application-layer; methodology paths are out of scope

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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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