01
Escrow, not a tip jar
Stripe takes fuel into a pot. The creator never receives cash. Unused dollars refund.
Product mockups
Kickstarter for Gauntlet Loop compute.
Escrowed dollars become frontier tokens in a hosted sandbox. Fuel never cashes out. Starting a run deploys a machine — it is not a payout.
02
Start run ≠ payout
Hitting the threshold boots an isolated VM and spends tokens on that loop only.
03
You are not in the machine
Claude Code + critics run hosted. You watch, nudge, and vote. Same harness, not your laptop.
Live workbench + fund
Project page: the loop is running, critics are scoring, and fuel goes into escrow — not to the creator.
Four walks through the product
Backers
Browse, fund, escrow
Live loops, Stripe checkout, credentials. Creator never receives cash.
Creators
Goal, bar, start run
Pin the quality bar. Deploy the pot as a hosted run — not a payout.
Sandbox
Today vs hosted
Laptop harness now. Isolated VM + ledger later. Bound to disk, not a provider account.
Watch
Livestream + vote-next
2x / 5x the run. Ignore any cash-out copy in the mock. Fuel never cashes out.
The rule
The run is bound to the VM + ledger, not to one provider account.
A 429 on Anthropic-A hands off to OpenRouter-B in 0s. Session stays intact. Empty pot pauses the same disk.