Compounds — 04

Elements are ingredients. Compounds are recipes.

A compound is a named, proven combination of elements — a whole stack you can adopt in an afternoon. Click any element for the current holders. New compounds are added by edition, never by sponsor.

compound 01 · for one person, full company

The Solo-Founder Compound

Fm · Ca · Vb · Dp · Kw · Mt · Re · Ce · Em · Cr · Pa · An · Co · Fh

Fourteen elements, roughly $250 a month, and one person operates at the scale of a ten-person company. A frontier model to think with, a coding agent and vibe builder to ship with, deploy plus payments to sell with, and — non-negotiably — community and founder health, because you are the single point of failure in a company of agents.

compound 02 · when the work should do itself

The Agent Stack

Fm · Ag · Wf · Mc · Mm · Or · Ev · Gd

The 2026 org chart: a few humans and a payroll of agents. Framework and workflow to give the model hands, MCP to give it reach, memory to give it continuity — and evals plus guardrails, because forty percent of agent projects die of unproven ROI and every incident story is a missing-seatbelt story.

compound 03 · for the first enterprise deal

The Trust Stack

Ev · Cm · Ai · Gd · Dc · Lg

The moment a real customer asks "is this safe?", this compound is the answer. Evals prove the machine works, compliance automation turns SOC 2 from a year of pain into a quarter of setup, and AI-Act readiness keeps the EU door open. One signed enterprise contract pays for the whole group.

compound 04 · distribution before dollars

The Bootstrap GTM

Ge · Ce · Em · So · En · Cr · La

The 2026 growth loop for a company with no marketing team: become the thing answer engines cite, multiply one real point of view into twenty artifacts, and pour every spike of attention into the one channel you own — your list. Enrichment and CRM catch what the content brings in.