Lunatic Labs

Tonight

Read tomorrow’s newspaper today.

The Lunatic Times prints your firm’s future. Lunatic Labs builds it. AI agents that do the job from start to finish, with a person signing it off.

Not yet news

Firm names its most tedious job; nobody objects

A mid-sized firm confirmed yesterday that it has handed its month-end close to Lunatic Labs, after its people were asked which job they would most like never to do again.

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A person reads every edition before it is sent. Money, promises and people wait for a human signature.

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This cycle
 

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Drawn as it hangs over you tonight.

Engraving: an empty clerk's desk by moonlight. A pen stands on the open ledger, writing by itself. The stool is empty.
Plate IVThe night clerk. Nobody on the stool. Ledger up to date.

Observations for the present cycle

What gets done by moonlight.

We build AI agents that do a job from start to finish. Not a chatbot that helps with it. Three kinds of work are in season all year.

  1. Of ledgers

    Invoices, reconciliations and the month-end pack, done overnight. Your people open the exceptions, not the spreadsheet. The small ad.

  2. Of letters

    Research, first drafts and follow-ups, waiting when you sit down. Nothing is sent until someone says yes. The small ad.

  3. Of memory

    Everything the firm knows, written down and joined up, so people and agents answer from the same facts. The small ad.

Anything touching money, promises or people waits for a human signature. The moon is mad. We are not. Stop press.

The gazetteer

The real map of the moon is the menu.

Every name and position below is the official one, from the International Astronomical Union. The meanings are ours. One of them is on the far side, which is where we keep the methods.

  1. Mare Crisium16.2° N 59.1° ESea of Crises. Month-end and the back office.
  2. Mare Frigoris57.6° N 0.0°Sea of Cold. Cold outreach and follow-ups.
  3. Mare Cognitum10.5° S 22.3° WThe sea that has become known. One brain for the business.
  4. Palus Putredinis27.4° N 0.0°Marsh of Decay. The spreadsheet you inherited.
  5. Mare Vaporum13.2° N 4.1° ESea of Vapours. What we are not: chatbots and vapourware.
  6. Lacus Timoris39.4° S 28.0° WLake of Fear. Letters: “Will it replace my people?”
  7. Sinus Fidei18.0° N 2.0° EBay of Trust. Stop press: who signs.
  8. Lacus Temporis46.8° N 56.2° ELake of Time. The archive of corrections.
  9. Lacus Mortis45.1° N 27.3° ELake of Death. Obituaries for dead tasks.
  10. Lacus Somniorum37.6° N 30.8° ELake of Dreams. Your stars.
  11. Sinus Successus1.1° N 58.5° EBay of Success. Subscribe.
  12. Mare Tranquillitatis8.4° N 30.8° ESea of Tranquility. Where it lands: everyone goes home on time.
  13. Mare Ingenii33.3° S 164.8° ESea of Cleverness, on the far side. Methods. Not visible from here. Under NDA.
One moon, the rhythm of the work  ·  drag the shadow line, or this ruler, to change the date
  1. New moonPick the job.
  2. First quarterBuilt, off to the side.
  3. Full moonRuns beside your people.
  4. Last quarterThe gate is set and signed.
  5. Around the new moonLive.