T4 epic · founders / executives — the flagship. Three branches
gather in parallel (web signal, repo pulse, the KPI sheet), jq does
the revenue arithmetic, a thinking model writes the brief — and
nika:inspect view: cost puts the run’s own bill in the ping.
A workflow that reports what it cost you is a workflow you trust on
a schedule.
The job
Monday needs one page: market, product, numbers, risks, the ONE decision. Assembling it eats an hour of founder time. This file assembles it before you wake — dated filename, summed revenue, and a webhook ping ending inrun cost $0.14.
The shape
The file
t4-ceo-monday-brief.nika.yaml
How it works
Three branches, zero coordination code
News (HN API through
mode: jq), engineering pulse (git shortlog)
and the KPI sheet (read → convert → jq add) run concurrently. The
revenue sum is jq arithmetic — deterministic, not model-guessed.Dates come from a builtin
nika:date + the .iso[:10] binding stamp the filename
briefs/2026-06-15-monday.md. Never let a model guess the date.Constructs you just used
Make it yours
- Add a fourth branch: support sentiment from Support triage’s board file.
- Keep a budget: follow
billwithnika:assertontotal_usd < 1— the brief refuses to overspend. - Archive the history: the dated files under
briefs/are already your decision journal.
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You’ve climbed the whole ladder — starter to epic. Time to write
yours.