From bdcbe1c2d64f6cfb5c462433404b1228d2cb5f14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Payne Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:19:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add Sovereign Stack README + portfolio tracker --- PORTFOLIO.md | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 145 insertions(+) create mode 100644 PORTFOLIO.md diff --git a/PORTFOLIO.md b/PORTFOLIO.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..827e580 --- /dev/null +++ b/PORTFOLIO.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +# SOVEREIGN STACK — PROJECT PORTFOLIO & AGENDA +*Build → Sell → Scale. No resumes unless contract requires it.* + +--- + +## P1: SOVEREIGN AI STACK +**Tagline:** Local-first multi-agent system. Your data, your models, your rules. Deployed in your infrastructure, not ours. +**Status:** MVP exists, needs packaging for sale +**Target customer:** Privacy advocates, Bitcoiners, small engineering teams, sovereign operators +**Price:** $2,500 setup fee + $199/month support/security-update retainer + $5,000 enterprise hardening add-on +**Delivery:** Docker Compose deploy → 90-min onboarding call → documentation → 30-day support window + +**Value props** +- Every component runs locally: LLM inference, agent runtime, memory, tool execution +- No OpenAI API key required after initial model pull +- MCP auto-discovery so new tools plug in without config edits +- L402 micropayments if agents need to call paid APIs +- Full audit trail + backup/restore scripts included + +**What’s already built** +- Sovereign AI Platform repo: MCP servers, coordinator swarm, cascade routing, FastAPI + HTMX dashboard, SQLite persistence, WebSocket feeds, 228+ tests, CI watchdog +- stackchain: multi-user agent tracker with time-travel queries and dispatch pipeline +- live-wizard: voice/avatar persona runtime with TTS/STT/RTMP + +**What needs packaging for sale** +1. Single-click installer: `git clone && docker compose up` +2. README with architecture diagram, threat model, runbook +3. Paywall/gate: public repo with limitations, premium support tier unlocks production configs +4. Demo video: 3-minute walkthrough of local-first agent doing a real task without cloud APIs +5. Landing page: one-column, copy + CTA + demo + +**First sale path** +- Post on X/Nostr/Libertarian + AI communities: "I’m selling turnkey sovereign AI deployments. Local-first, Bitcoin payments, no cloud dependencies." +- Price discovery: $2,500 is high enough to filter tire-kickers, low enough for early adopters +- First 3 buyers get lifetime discount / advisory seat + +**Revenue projection** +- Conservative: 2 sales/month = $5,000/month + $398/month recurring +- Upside: 5 sales/month = $12,500/month + $995/month recurring + +--- + +## P2: L402 PAYMENT PROXY +**Tagline:** Charge Lightning payments for any API. Drop-in replacement for API keys. +**Status:** Prototype exists in sovereign-ai repo, needs extraction + hardening +**Target customer:** API providers, indie hackers, LLM proxy operators, content paywalls +**Price:** $99/month per endpoint + 1% of Lightning volume; or $3,000 flat for self-hosted license +**Delivery:** Docker image + config + 1-hour setup + runbook + +**Value props** +- Any API endpoint can now accept satoshi micropayments +- HMAC macaroon auth means no database of user tokens +- Clients pay per request, no subscriptions, no credit cards +- Works with nginx, Caddy, FastAPI, any HTTP backend + +**What’s already built** +- L402 proxy with macaroon issuance/verification +- Lightning invoice generation and WebSocket payment confirmation +- FastAPI integration in sovereign-ai backend + +**What needs packaging for sale** +1. Extract L402 proxy into standalone repo +2. Public demo instance: hit `/pay` endpoint, get 402 with invoice, pay, get through +3. Integration guide for common backends: FastAPI, Node, nginx, Caddy +4. Monitoring dashboard showing payment volume, active caveats, revenue + +**First sale path** +- Post to Lightning community ( nostr, X, Telegram groups): "I built an L402 payment gateway. If you run an API and want satoshi payments, DM me." +- Direct pitch to LLM proxy operators: "Charge per request instead of flat API key" +- Offer first 5 customers lifetime discount + co-marketing + +**Revenue projection** +- 10 active endpoints × $99/month = $990/month + variable volume cut +- If one customer hits $50K/month API volume at 1% = $500/month + +--- + +## P3: SOVEREIGN DEPLOYMENT KITS +**Tagline:** Infrastructure-as-code for people who don’t want to read 30 tutorials. +**Status:** Scripts exist ad-hoc, need packaging into tested playbooks +**Target customer:** Developers, sovereign operators, privacy-curious non-ops people +**Price:** $499 per kit, or $99/month for all kits + updates + private Discord +**Kits:** +1. **Sovereign Gitea Stack** — Gitea + CI/CD + HTTPS + backup in 15 minutes +2. **Lightning Node Kit** — litd + L402 + monitoring + rebalancing automation +3. **Local AI Stack** — Ollama + Open WebUI + MCP + sovereign dashboard +4. **Full Stack** — all three above integrated + +**First sale path** +- GitHub releases with free partial versions (single-server only), paid unlocks multi-node +- Bundle with P1 Sovereign AI Stack as upsell +- Post deploy tutorials on X with link to paid kit + +--- + +## P4: LIVE-WIZARD PERSONA TEMPLATES +**Tagline:** Pre-built voice-enabled AI personas. Drop-in for Telegram, Discord, Twitch. +**Status:** Core runtime exists, no packaged personas yet +**Target customer:** Streamers, community managers, small business owners +**Price:** $75–150 per persona template, $499 custom persona build, $199/month managed hosting + +**Persona catalog** +- "The Broker" — financial/news-adjacent, calm, data-driven voice +- "The Dungeon Master" — RPG campaign host, whimsical, memory of party/characters +- "The Operator" — customer support voice, 24/7, routes tickets, posts to Gitea +- "The DJ" — music host, voice-activated track requests, crowd interaction + +**First sale path** +- Build one demo persona, post 2-minute clip on X/TikTok/YouTube Shorts: "This is an AI streamer running on my local rig. DMs for yours." +- Price low initially to get testimonials, then raise + +--- + +## P5: STACKCHAIN COMMERCIAL FORK +**Tagline:** Sovereign task tracker for engineering teams who hate Jira and don’t trust SaaS. +**Status:** Open-source proto exists, needs hardening + multi-tenant layer +**Target customer:** Engineering teams 5–50 people, remote-first, crypto/Bitcoin adjacent +**Price:** $50/seat/year self-hosted; $2,000 flat for on-prem enterprise with support; $500/month managed + +**What makes it different** +- Time-travel queries: see exactly what the team planned vs. executed at any point in history +- Agent-native: todos can be owned/operated by autonomous sub-agents +- Gitea-native: lives in your existing repo, no new SaaS subscription +- Dispatch pipeline: auto-creates tickets, assigns agents, publishes results + +**First sale path** +- Pitch to existing Bitcoin/engineering communities first — they get the sovereignty angle +- Offer "free for open-source teams, paid for private repos" to seed adoption + +--- + +## CROSS-CUTTING PRIORITIES +1. **Ship a public demo this week** — sovereign-ai-stack.com or similar static page with working L402 demo +2. **Write one publishable piece** — "Building an L402 Payment Proxy from Scratch" — put it on nostr, hackernoon, personal blog +3. **Talk to 5 potential buyers** — not to pitch, but to understand which of these 5 products they would actually pay for +4. **Pick ONE product to lead with** — likely P1 or P2. Everything else is distraction until one sells. + +## AGENDA THIS WEEK +- [ ] Public repo for Sovereign AI Stack with README + demo video script +- [ ] Extract L402 proxy into standalone repo + public demo instance +- [ ] Draft first blog post on L402 +- [ ] Post availability on X/Nostr +- [ ] Create Gitea project board for these 5 products + +EOF