Technical Documentation

How We Build Software With AI

38 papers documenting the Compounding Execution Method — extracted from real builds, not theory.

38

Papers

28

Execution Mechanisms

10

Systems Validated

Core Concepts 3 Mechanism 28 Applied Workflows 5 Recovery Toolkits 2

38

Papers

28

Execution Mechanisms

10

Systems Validated

Core Concepts

3

The worldview CEM is built on — why old methodologies break and what replaces them.

F0 Core Concept Old World The Constraints That Shaped How We Built Why every methodology you've ever used was a rational response to five constraints that seemed permanent — and what happened when they weren't. Read paper

F1 Core Concept Enabling Environment The Container That Makes Solo High-Output Execution Possible Why AI is not a tool that makes you faster -- it is an environment that makes previously impossible execution modes possible. Read paper

F2 Core Concept Operator Load-Bearing Requirements for AI-Native High-Output Execution AI removed the technical barriers. What it exposed were the human ones -- and those turned out to be load-bearing. Read paper

Mechanisms

28

The 28 execution tools that run the system. Each one solves a specific operational problem.

Vision The Locked Forward Target That Makes All Other Mechanisms Function

Foundation The Self-Feeding Asset Library That Makes Execution Compound

Pendulum A Fractal Binary Decision Mechanism for High-Output Execution

Nested Cycles Fractal Time Architecture for Sustained High-Output Execution

Sweeps Background Maintenance and Bidirectional Patch Routing

Regroup Structured Intervals for Cutting Off the Past

Governor Quality Gates That Protect Velocity from Itself

80% Premise How Deliberate Incompleteness Creates Competitive Advantage

Micro-Triage A Tactical Problem-Solving Sequence for AI-Native Execution Recovery

Multi-Thread Workflow Physical Environment Architecture for Parallel Execution

Bridge Cross-Ecosystem Connection as Compounding Multiplier

Scaffold Instant Structure from Foundation Eliminates Cold-Start Cost

Burst Controlled Divergent Explosion for Breaking Stasis and Generating Strategic Candidates

Target The Concrete Operational Filter That Every Decision Passes Through

Stop, Pause, Reset First-Line Execution Interrupt for AI-Native Recovery

Stop and Recap Context Recovery Through Forced Shared Reality

Stop, Run It Back Nuclear Context Reset as Execution Recovery

Spiral Anatomy The Universal Failure-and-Recovery Pattern Across Execution Scales

Storage Discipline Organized Retrievability as Foundation Health

Breadcrumbs Deliberate Traces That Enable Push-Based Asset Discovery

Environmental Control Operator Sovereignty Over Execution State

Routing Bidirectional Task Assignment for Continuous Forward Progress

Realign / Tear Down Project-Level Recovery When Task-Level Fixes Are Insufficient

Recalibrate / Hard Reset Ecosystem-Level Recovery When the Operating Model Fails

No Backlog The Rule That Prevents Deferred Work from Becoming Dead Work

No Long Planning Why Structure Emerges from Execution, Not from Planning Documents

Drift Tax Structural Error Rates in AI-Native Execution

Anchored Data Locked Reference Values That Constrain Execution Against Objective Reality

Applied Workflows

5

How the mechanisms combine in production — real patterns from 10 shipped systems.

A1 Applied Workflow Build as Validation Build-as-Validation: The Inversion of Lean Startup When Building Cost Approaches Zero When building is cheaper than asking, the product becomes the experiment. Read paper

A2 Applied Workflow Parallel MVP Simultaneous Validation Across Engineering, Product, and Marketing How I stopped sequencing build, test, and sell -- and started shipping all three in the same week. Read paper

A3 Applied Workflow Time Compression Accelerating Cycle Velocity Through Foundation Depth How Foundation depth compressed my MVP delivery from 43 days to 4 days across ten production systems — not through simpler projects, but through a system that compounds. Read paper

A4 Applied Workflow Routing Bidirectional Patch System for Sustained Operator Progress How upward patches to experts and downward patches to delegates kept me executing at my optimal capability level -- never blocked by my own limitations, never slowed by work beneath my level. Read paper

A8 Applied Workflow Knowledge Formalization Extracting Methodology From Execution Data Through CEM How I turned an unnamed personal methodology into a published, DOI-stamped body of work in 12 days — using the same mechanisms that built the software portfolio. Read paper

Recovery Toolkits

2

What to do when execution breaks down. Diagnostic and reset procedures.

T1 Recovery Toolkit Stop, Pause, Reset A First-Line Tactical Interrupt for Execution Recovery Three words. Three actions. Zero overhead. The simplest mechanism in CEM — and the prerequisite for every other recovery mechanism in the system. Read paper

T2 Recovery Toolkit Refresh Nuclear Reset as Execution Liberation When the approach itself is broken, the highest-value action is complete destruction and clean-slate restart — Foundation catches what matters, and deletion is liberation, not loss. Read paper