This platform was substantially built by one founder directing AI agents. If you get hit by a bus — or just burn out — what exactly have we bought?

The full executive answer

It is the single most important diligence question about a company my size, so let me answer what you would actually inherit rather than defend my indispensability. First, the codebase is engineered for successor engineers, not for my memory: strict typing throughout — meaning the code documents its own contracts and a new engineer's mistakes are caught at compile time; 3,577 tests that encode the intended behaviour executably; 192 numbered, re-runnable database migrations that reconstruct the entire schema from zero; and a written working agreement in the repository that captures the invariants — the tenant-isolation rules, the AI-safety rules, the deployment gates — precisely so they are enforced by pipeline and document rather than carried in my head. The AI-assisted development model cuts both ways here, and the second edge favours you: the practices that let AI agents work on this codebase safely — explicit conventions, machine-enforced rules, exhaustive tests — are exactly the practices that onboard human engineers fast.

Second, structural continuity: your data is in standard Postgres, continuously exportable through the API and file exports we discussed, and the operational stack is managed services — hosting, database, identity all keep running without daily founder heroics. There is no hand-operated machinery that stops when I sleep.

Third, the honest residue: yes, today the bus factor is one, and I will not dress that up. The mitigations with dates rather than adjectives: key-person insurance and source-code escrow with a release-conditions agreement are standard enterprise-contract terms I will sign; and the first engineering hires are an explicit use of the funding round this launch supports. Ask any acquirer's technical diligence team what they fear in a small vendor — undocumented tribal knowledge and untested code. This company's entire engineering culture is the inversion of that.