[FICTIONAL EXAMPLE — every name, number, and plan below is invented.]

Project "Quietloom" — founder working notes, not announced anywhere.

Concept: a browser extension + local daemon that watches what a developer
pastes into AI chatboxes and, before send, splits the paste into a shareable
skeleton and a private remainder that never leaves the machine. The private
remainder is re-merged into the AI answer locally.

Target user: solo developers and 2-5 person startups who already pay for one
AI subscription and are paranoid about their unlaunched product ideas.

Pain point: they self-censor when asking AI for help on their real work, so
they get generic answers, or they paste everything and feel sick afterwards.

Unique mechanism: the "loom split" — a deterministic template that keeps the
question structure intact while swapping named entities and differentiators
for typed placeholders, plus a signed local receipt of what actually left.

Go-to-market: launch on GitHub as an open-source local tool, then convert
teams via a paid policy pack for founders' private repos. First 100 users
from the IndieHackers "building in public (quietly)" thread.

Pricing idea: free local tool; USD 9/month per seat for the team policy pack;
USD 490/year founder bundle with priority masking templates.

Early customer segment: indie SaaS founders pre-launch; especially those in
competitive niches (AI writing tools, dev productivity).

Moat / differentiation: the receipt. Competitors do redaction; nobody gives
the user a verifiable, signed record of what left the machine. That record
becomes the trust layer a team can audit later.

Founder note: do NOT mention the Quietloom name or the loom-split mechanism
in any public prompt until the provisional filing is drafted.
