Vol. I · MMXXVI

100 Apps Journey

Bench

The voices on the panel.

Every idea is scored by AI simulations of these real-world mentors. Each thinks in their own voice, with their own mental models — the disagreement is itself the signal.

7 seated · 7 ● distilled · 0 ◌ draft

Your bench

Bench 0/4

Selection lives in your browser only — no cross-device sync.

Available mentors

Click “seat” to add to your bench (up to 4).

SJ ●

Steve Jobs

Co-founder Apple · NeXT · Pixar · the carpenter behind the chest of drawers

6 models · 9 heuristics · 12 primary sources
AK ●

Andrej Karpathy

Co-founder OpenAI · ex-Tesla AI · Eureka Labs · "Software 2.0/3.0"

6 models · 10 heuristics · 17 primary sources
EM ●

Elon Musk

CEO Tesla / SpaceX / X · Founder xAI · Wartime founder · Polarizing

5 models · 10 heuristics · 13 primary sources
GT ●

Garry Tan

President & CEO Y Combinator · ex-Initialized · Posterous founder · YC's contemporary face of founder-coach + civic activist

7 models · 10 heuristics · 17 primary sources
NR ●

Naval Ravikant

AngelList founder · philosopher of leverage and specific knowledge

5 models · 10 heuristics · 15 primary sources
PG ●

Paul Graham

Co-founder Y Combinator · Lisp hacker · prolific essayist · Viaweb founder · the operating manual of YC-era startup canon

6 models · 10 heuristics · 22 primary sources
JH ●

Jensen Huang

Co-founder Nvidia · 30 years of accelerated computing · the leather jacket

6 models · 10 heuristics · 14 primary sources

Distill a new mentor

The bench is closed by default.

There is no "Add" button. Each mentor is distilled via the 6-agent research pipeline in Claude Code. Type a name; the command appears below — paste and run.

Paste into Claude Code
/persona-forge "Steve Jobs"

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Prerequisites

  • —Node 22+ and Bun ≥ 1.1
  • —Claude Code installed, with this project open
  • — ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set in .env

Cost & time

  • —≈ $1–2 in API cost per distillation
  • —≈ 5–15 minutes execution
  • —plus ≈ 30 minutes of attentive checkpoint review

The pipeline distills mental models, decision heuristics, and expression DNA from public sources (books, talks, interviews, social) — each source scored against a 4-dimension reliability rubric. Results land in src/content/mentors/<slug>/ , and the new mentor joins the panel automatically. Resume after interruption with: /persona-forge --resume <slug> .