Autonomous pipelines · 2026 · Solo — architecture, build, ops
Overnight Foundry
A nightly pipeline that researches, specs, and advances business ideas while I sleep.
The problem
Idea backlog dies in the gap between 'interesting' and 'validated.' I wanted a machine that moves ideas through real vetting stages every night and hands me a decision-ready brief by morning.
Architecture
Entry
Nightly triggercron, ~2am
Orchestrator
foundry-harness CLIlocking · verification · gates
Specialists
Research
Spec
Advance
Safety / control
File lockno concurrent corruption
Verification gatemust pass to promote
Output
Morning Briefdelivered 8:00am PT
Key decisions
01
A custom CLI harness, not model self-management
Locking, verification, and stage-gates live in code — making the pipeline idempotent and safe to fail, instead of trusting the model to manage its own state.
02
At most one stage per idea per night
Bounded, auditable progress beats greedy runs. Each night moves the backlog forward a provable, reviewable increment.
03
Verification before every promotion
A gate runs before each stage advance, so a bad stage never poisons the next one downstream.
Metrics
3
ideas advanced / week
3
staged gates
8:00am
brief delivered, PT
0
corrupted runs (locking)