Brainstorm — captured 2026-07-05, treatment as venture.
Connor thought commercialising Felt Faction would be worthwhile. Nathan's parallel instinct: a Felt Faction venture would benefit from an autonomous company brain that runs parallel to his personal gbrain, with the two sharing an underlying knowledge layer.
This is the literal YC Request for Startups company-brain category.
brain-shared (CORRECTED 2026-07-05)Initial instinct was to call it "felt-faction" — user pushed back: the scope isn't just Felt Faction, it's whatever Nathan + Connor share. A venture is one possibility; the joint life is broader. The brain is named after the relationship, not the venture.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Source id | brain-shared |
| Name | "Shared (Nathan + Connor)" |
| Path | /Users/nathanmaxwell/brain-shared/ |
| Federated | yes (appears in Nathan's cross-source search) |
| Layout | shared/ + nathan/ + connor/ |
| Model | B (one source, per-person folders, agent-enforced boundary) |
Felt Faction may be in here, but so might:
Both co-facilitators are Sunshine Coast QLD locals — Nathan since late 2012 (school + immediate family), Connor since 2020 (school + immediate family).
The prior recall framing of Felt Faction as Canberra-anchored was wrong three times over:
had Nathan + Connor anchored to Belconnen/Canberra. SC has been home since 2012 / 2020. (The Chingaari dinner was on the SC, not in Belconnen — see second correction below.)
in the Felt Faction ledger is Carwoola Crescent, a residential street in Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast — not the rural locality called Carwoola near Queanbeyan / Captains Flat in NSW. And the 2026-07-01 dinner was at Chingaari Indian Restaurant, 3/61 Burnett St, Buderim QLD 4556 (Sunshine Coast) — not at a "Chingari's in Belconnen." Two errors that both looked like Canberra references but were both Sunshine Coast references the LLM pattern-matched sideways. The brain had it wrong twice; two user corrections in a row caught it. Verified via web search 2026-07-05: Carwoola Residence by Reitsma, Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast; Chingaari Indian Restaurant, Burnett St, Buderim QLD 4556 (Instagram + EatClub + Uber Eats).
prior two corrections hypothesised the drift was driven by a "recent Canberra touchpoint" — citing "UniSC term" as one such touchpoint. That theory was itself wrong: UniSC = University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs QLD (formerly USC until the 2022 rename). It is not a Canberra institution and has never been. There was no "Canberra touchpoint" — the SC correction should have stopped at "the LLM pattern-matched sideways on a SC context and anchored it to Canberra because that's what the brain's recall bias defaulted to." Lesson: the LLM drifts to Canberra by default on QLD/NSW place-names regardless of what the actual context is. The fix isn't "find the recent touchpoint" — it's "verify the location every time, regardless of context." See skill place-name-verification for the full recipe.
Consequence: "Carwoola Credits" is geographically correct as-is. The ledger already points home. The "rename to Coast Credits?" question from the prior correction is moot. Whoever named it picked a street near the co-facilitators; that's a deliberate brand call, not an accident.
Consequence 2: SEQ is unambiguously the home market for the venture. Co-location is the strongest single signal for viability:
geographically unambiguous
thing, the LLM just drifted the framing
that mean — sell a service? license the format? build a SaaS that lets other groups run their own Felt Faction? Membership model? Open until scoped.
(brain-shared) runs on gbrain — separate source from Nathan's personal home, federated, with Nathan + Connor each getting scoped access via per-person folders. Per-person crons. The gbrain repo literally ships a tutorial for this (docs/tutorials/company-brain.md).
These are entangled: the shared brain is the operating system of the joint life. The venture's product and the venture's ops are the same artifact.
company-brain.md) — it walks through theexact setup: federated sources, per-person folders, OAuth scoping, HTTP MCP, per-person crons
this is a sanctioned direction, not a fringe one
the prerequisite is in place
committed to following Nathan to Europe, peer/co-facilitator on Felt Faction) maps cleanly to "co-founder of a venture that has a brain"
distance. The venture's founding ops are inherently local (casino nights, ledger reconciliation in person, member vetting over coffee). SEQ is the test bed.
identity doesn't need to be re-built from a Canberra placeholder; it was never that.
up. Source registered (brain-shared), scaffold committed (shared/ + nathan/ + connor/ folders, README + HOW-WE-WORK pages), first sync ran clean, shared/how-we-work page indexed with full embeddings in the gbrain DB.
sold/licensed to other groups), the vehicle (a service business Nathan + Connor run themselves), or both?
Brisbane)? AU? AU + EU (post-2028 move)? EU-first given Connor's Italy preference + Munich luxury automotive cluster?
Licensing the Carwoola Credits (CC) ledger to other social clubs?
home (Nathan personal) + brain-shared (the joint life), with brain-shared having per-person folders (shared/ + nathan/ + connor/) inside it
home source stays personal. The shared brainis a separate source, federated-read across the two
member churn, ledger audit, season summary, etc.
season-close, member-vetting, cc-ledger-audit, casino-night-run-sheet
(per the tutorial's 25-person cost basis — we'll be well under)
The repo tutorial assumes one of two scoping models:
different AI clients. Right shape if Connor runs his own client (Claude Code, Cursor, his own Hermes).
when ONE agent (Nathan's) serves everyone. Right shape if the shared brain is really just Nathan's agent with a Connor-facing scope.
For a 2-person shared brain, Model B is almost certainly correct to start (and is what's actually wired up today). Add Model A later if Connor spins up his own client.
The Felt Faction brainstorm reveals something generalisable:
A personal gbrain is a single-player RPG. A shared gbrain is a multiplayer RPG with shared loot, scoped inventories, and party roles.
The "shared brain" metaphor is doing real work here:
membership roster, the joint 2028 EU plan) — anyone in the shared brain reads + writes
Connor's marketing outreach) — only that person reads + writes
Felt Faction project page, his thoughts on social-club mechanics) — they migrate into the shared brain but stay Nathan-private until he chooses to share
members rotate, when seasons end, when Nathan + Connor are both in different cities in 2028+, the brain is what remembers the rules, the ledger, the seasons, the wins
The personal gbrain is personal. The shared brain is the shared life. They share a substrate but not a permission model.
thesis + EU move commitment; SC local since 2020
the artefact being commercialised; Carwoola Cres = Mooloolaba, not Canberra
career direction (luxury / sports, not pure EV)
the shared brain's longer-term geography (Munich lead)
category sponsor
the personal gbrain the shared brain extends
brain-shared source — shared/HOW-WE-WORK is the liveconventions page
appetite for a venture is unknown until that lands. (The v10 message is about the 2028 EU move, not about commercialising Felt Faction; the venture pitch needs a separate thread with Connor.)
"Carwoola Credits" canonicalisation, since it's the joint artefact the two of them have already built. Pending Connor's appetite.
decision before more brain shape gets locked
pages (in projects/felt-faction, the v1-v10 brainstorm lineage, the CC ledger notes) move into the shared source? What stays personal?
isn't fully solved by the repo's current tutorial — that's a gap worth documenting if we end up implementing it