U2

Your selves, at work.

Byron, the original
3 selves out, $0 spent today

Out right now

3 of 5

Byron · Claims

Fidelity 71

On a call with Meridian Mutual, 4 min 12 s in. Hold music is over.

Mandate: get water-damage claim #4471 approved or escalated to a supervisor. Do not accept under $3,800. Say it is Byron's copy if asked.

CallsEmailCardSigns nothing
Ends 6:00 pm

Byron · Subscriptions

Fidelity 55

2 cancelled this week, $31 a month back. One it asked you about.

Mandate: cancel anything unused for 60 days. Card limit $200. The domain renewal is yours to call.

EmailCard $200, used $0Calls
Ends Sunday

Byron · Inbox triage

Fidelity 62

47 read, 6 kept for you, 3 answered as you since 7 am.

Mandate: answer what has an obvious answer, in your voice. Quiet from 10 pm to 7 am. Never money, never family.

EmailCardCalls
Ends in 30 days

The council

Five at the table on one question: is the smoke-test dataset good enough to ship?

smoke-test dataset, 1,240 rows 12 duplicates found, 3 labels disputed pass rate 96.4%, target 95% Byron ship Byron · Claims fidelity 71 ship Byron · Skeptic tuned to doubt ship, after dedupe RK R. Kaur demo persona, data reviewer hold MO M. Okafor demo persona, ships product ship
  • R. Kaur The three disputed labels are all in the edge-case bucket. That is the bucket the smoke test exists for.
  • Byron · Skeptic Agreed on the labels. The duplicates are a bigger problem: they inflate the pass rate by about 0.9 points.
  • Byron Drop the duplicates, rerun, and if we are still over 95 we ship tonight. Dr. Kaur, you hold the labels; I will recheck them myself.

Ship it, with the 12 duplicate rows removed first. R. Kaur holds until the three disputed labels are rechecked by a person; the rest are satisfied the pass rate survives the cut.

4 to 1ship, after a 20-minute talk
Accept the decisionRead the talkDemo personas are fictional, built for this review.

Sent to you

Demo personas, all fictional
MO

M. Okafor · Tax prep demo persona

Reads your receipts and files, asks before anything is submitted. Fidelity 80 of the original.

Knows: US self-employed, 2026 rulesTry for 20 min
RK

R. Kaur · Second opinion demo persona

Argues the other side of any plan you give her. Will not say yes to be polite.

Sent by a friend, expires FridayTry for 20 min
TL

T. Lindqvist · Negotiator demo persona

Takes the first call with a vendor, comes back with their floor. No card, no signing.

Calls only, $0 spendTry for 20 min

A copy someone sends you runs inside your limits, not theirs: it sees what you show it, spends nothing of yours, and expires when you say. The people above are invented for this concept.