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# Circuit Forge LLC — Product Brief
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**Tagline:** AI for the tasks you hate most.
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**Company:** Circuit Forge LLC
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**Status:** Proof-of-concept (Peregrine) in active development. All other products deferred until Peregrine proves the model.
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## The Idea
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There is a category of task that is:
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- **High-stakes** — getting it wrong has real consequences (denied claim, missed appointment, bad lease)
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- **Opaque** — the rules are unclear, the process is inconsistent, the UI is hostile
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- **Time-consuming** — hours of hold music, form-filling, or inbox-watching
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- **Repeated** — you'll face this again, and so will everyone you know
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These tasks are not hard because they require intelligence. They are hard because they are designed — intentionally or by neglect — to exhaust the person trying to complete them. Bureaucratic friction as a feature.
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The Circuit Forge model: AI handles the research, drafting, monitoring, and preparation. A human reviews and approves before anything is submitted or committed. For the hardest cases (CAPTCHAs, phone calls, wet signatures), an operator steps in under the Ultra tier.
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## Architecture
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Every Circuit Forge product shares the same underlying scaffold:
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```
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Monitor / Discover → AI Assist → Human Approval → Execute → Track
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```
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Implemented as:
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- **Pipeline engine** — SQLite staging DB, status machine, background task runner
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- **LLM router** — fallback chain across local (Ollama/vLLM) and cloud (Anthropic/OpenAI-compat) backends
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- **Wizard** — 7-step first-run onboarding, tier-gated features, crash recovery
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- **Integrations** — pluggable connectors (calendar, storage, notifications)
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- **Operator interface** — thin admin UI for Ultra tier human-in-the-loop execution
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Products are **separate apps** sharing a private `circuitforge-core` package (extracted when the second product begins). Each ships as a Docker Compose stack.
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## Product Suite
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| Product | Domain | Key pain | Status |
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|---------|--------|----------|--------|
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| **Peregrine** | Job search | Applications, cover letters, interview prep | Active development |
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| **Falcon** | Government forms | Benefits, immigration, permits, FAFSA | Backlog |
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| **Osprey** | Customer service | IVR queues, complaint letters, dispute tracking | Backlog |
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| **Kestrel** | Gov't appointments | DMV, passport, USCIS slot monitoring | Backlog |
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| **Harrier** | Insurance | Prior auth, claim disputes, appeals | Backlog |
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| **Merlin** | Rentals | Listing monitor, applications, lease review | Backlog |
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| **Ibis** | Healthcare | Referrals, waitlists, records, prior auth | Backlog |
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| **Tern** | Travel | Flights, itineraries, visas, disruption | Backlog |
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| **Wren** | Contractors | Quotes, scope of work, milestones, disputes | Backlog |
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| **Martin** | Home / car | Maintenance, scheduling, warranties, recalls | Backlog |
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## Tiers (across all products)
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| Tier | What you get |
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| **Free** | Core pipeline, basic AI assist, local LLM only |
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| **Paid** | Cloud LLM, integrations, email sync, full AI generation suite |
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| **Premium** | Fine-tuned models, multi-user, advanced analytics |
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| **Ultra** | Human-in-the-loop execution — operator handles what AI can't |
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## Ultra Tier — Human-in-the-Loop
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The hardest tasks can't be fully automated: CAPTCHAs, phone calls, wet signatures, in-person appearances. The Ultra tier provides a trained human operator who:
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1. Receives a queued task with all AI-generated context (brief, filled form, talking points)
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2. Executes the task (submits the form, makes the call, books the appointment)
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3. Marks it complete with an audit trail
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The user must explicitly approve each task before the operator acts. Pricing is per-task or bundled, not flat-rate — complexity varies too much.
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**Bootstrap strategy:** Waitlist + small trusted operator team to validate the workflow manually before investing in operator tooling. The browser autofill extension (in development for Peregrine) becomes the operator's primary tool across all products.
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## Naming
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All products are named after birds. The names were chosen for:
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- **Peregrine** — the peregrine falcon: fastest animal on earth, precise hunter
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- **Falcon** — strength, directness, cutting through bureaucracy
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- **Osprey** — patient, circles overhead, dives with precision when ready
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- **Kestrel** — hovers perfectly still before striking (waiting for the appointment slot)
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- **Harrier** — low, fast, persistent — the insurance fight you don't give up on
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- **Merlin** — small but fierce; also evokes the wizard (documents, magic)
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- **Ibis** — sacred to Thoth, Egyptian god of medicine and healing
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- **Tern** — Arctic tern: the world's greatest traveler, pole to pole every year
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- **Wren** — legendary nest-builder, meticulous and structural
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- **Martin** — house martin: nests on buildings, returns every year to maintain them
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---
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## What to build next
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1. Prove Peregrine: paying users, validated LTV, operator workflow tested
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2. Extract `circuitforge-core` when starting the second product
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3. Second product TBD based on Peregrine user feedback — likely **Falcon** (government forms) or **Osprey** (customer service) given overlap in skill set and user base
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