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Release 2026-10-22.1

First publication

Accepted statements and connections, selected from the working record with their original wording, named endorsers and recorded context.

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  50 statements and 14 connections

  The Logical Thinking Process, made accessible through AI, is used in the world to help people think and act better together.The work is resourced beyond Rufus and David's spare time.Real people use the tool, with Second Renaissance as the first user and testbed.The product is something people can picture themselves using.Rufus and David have a clear agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment.Rufus and David have no resources for the work other than their own time.Rufus and David have not applied for funding.Rufus and David have no customers.Rufus and David are not clear what the product should look like.Rufus and David cannot yet show an average user a clear picture of how they would use the product.Rufus and David have seen no sign of product-market fit.Rufus and David have not been clear on their goal, how they move towards it, or what is next.Rufus and David have no shared, structured way of turning the goal into action, covering who ships what, what counts as progress and what is next.Rufus and David both want the work to become a startup as well as seek philanthropic funding, and do not want it to depend on philanthropic funding in the long term; David is, if anything, keener on the startup.Rufus judges that selling the tool to companies is hard, because it needs teams to work, has to be sold at a senior level and is not a small subscription an individual buys.The Reason Commons repository is released under the MIT licence from 2026-09-26, and Rufus and David are happy for all the software, the app included, to be MIT-licensed.Rufus and David agreed the goal of their collaboration on 2026-09-25.No one other than Rufus and David uses any app they have built.Rufus and David do not know who their users are in general, though for the nonprofit-oriented version they have candidate communities in the AI-risk debate, effective altruism and Second Renaissance.David has limited interest in market testing and selling.David lacks confidence that there is a coherent product to demo.David is held back from testing with potential users.David would want to test with a potential user if he had a demo he felt was coherent.Real people use the tool, with Rufus and David as the first users.Rufus and David learn what the tool must do by using it on their own real work.Rufus and David use the current app on their real work now, rough as it is.The tool Rufus and David put in front of people is good enough to be worth using.Rufus and David keep building and redesigning the tool before relying on it.Rufus and David use the tool on their real work now while they keep building and redesigning it.The work is resourced beyond Rufus and David's spare time.Rufus and David have no resources for the work other than their own time.Rufus and David have not applied for funding.Rufus and David have no customers.Real people use the tool, with Second Renaissance as the first user and testbed.Rufus and David have seen no sign of product-market fit.The product is something people can picture themselves using.Rufus and David are not clear what the product should look like.Rufus and David cannot yet show an average user a clear picture of how they would use the product.Rufus and David have a clear agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment.Rufus and David have never discussed ownership or profit share.Rufus and David both want to turn the work into a startup.The Reason Commons software is released under the MIT licence.No one other than Rufus and David uses any app they have built.Rufus and David do not know who their users are in general, though for the nonprofit-oriented version they have candidate communities in the AI-risk debate, effective altruism and Second Renaissance.Rufus and David together run the choice of near-term focus, grant applications or the product and customers, through the tool, from notes to a tree to a decision.Rufus and David together run their agreement on ownership, licensing and commitment through the tool.Rufus starts a friction log, and Rufus and David record in it each place the tool falls short while they use it.David uses the tool on a real question of his own outside this collaboration, and Rufus may do the same.Rufus and David shortlist funders, starting with Coefficient Giving and the Survival and Flourishing Fund and adding others found by research or by asking around.Rufus and David apply to the shortlisted funders through Life Itself, using the one-page pitch.and 14 connections