≥312h 03mDeclared · 18 Aug – 11 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
Hours of human work on the experiment: at least this many. A minimum, never the total.
EVIDENCE STATUS
SELF_REPORTED · Declared
OBSERVATION WINDOW
18 Aug 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
REPLAYED_FROM_RAW: 312h03m00s lower bound through 2026-10-11.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
founder_hours
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1. same library as the shipped stream with a different evidence set (one extra reinforcement, changed observations); the value the dashboard producer reports
SOURCE
Operator declaration
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
e00aae4216c8
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · ≥312h 03m · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
10 Oct 2026 · ≥309h 01m · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
5 Oct 2026 · ≥272h 28m · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Products live
1Measured · 11 Oct
DEFINITION
Products that are live and that real people can use.
EVIDENCE STATUS
MEASURED · Measured
OBSERVATION WINDOW
11 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Scope: Product 01 only, howfar.one (declared complete by the founder). 1 of 1 product in scope is live: a PRODUCTION deployment receipt, a matching release manifest and a passing smoke check, no older than 24 hours. Nothing outside the declared scope is counted.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
products_live
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1. products_live = declared products with a PRODUCTION receipt, a matching release manifest and a passing smoke check no older than 24 hours.
SOURCE
Internal instrumentation
CALCULATOR VERSION
product-inventory-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
851af350fcb5
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · 1 · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
10 Oct 2026 · no data · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
5 Oct 2026 · 1 · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Revenue
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Money customers have actually paid.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
revenue
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Tracked cash spend
≥261.42 EURDeclared · 18 Aug – 5 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
All cash billed for the experiment since it began, across every project and shared tool. Future charges and unbilled costs are not included.
EVIDENCE STATUS
SELF_REPORTED · Declared
OBSERVATION WINDOW
18 Aug 2026 – 5 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Ledger as written. Human adjudication ai-subscription-22-cash-included-20261005 confirms the named late transaction set is valid and included.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
cash_operating_spend
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Operator declaration
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar-expense-importer-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
1b86711b9ddf
HISTORY
5 Oct 2026 · ≥261.42 EUR · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Revenue per hour worked
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Revenue confirmed by outside records, divided by measured human hours.
Tasks finished correctly without human intervention.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
verified_autonomous_completions
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Work that still needs a human
—Unknown
DEFINITION
How much of the day-to-day running still needs a human.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
human_operations_ratio
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Human interventions
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Times the system needed a human.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
None registered yet
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1. No measurement is defined for this concept yet; unknown remains unknown.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Known open bugs
≥16Measured · 11 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
Defects that are confirmed and not yet fixed.
EVIDENCE STATUS
MEASURED · Measured
OBSERVATION WINDOW
11 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Scope: failure records and confirmed-bug issues of the company's core repository, plus HowFar's own defect records. Defects in the company's other repositories are not counted, so this is a minimum.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
open_confirmed_bugs
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Internal instrumentation
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar-open-confirmed-bugs-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
746120e61759
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · ≥16 · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
10 Oct 2026 · ≥16 · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
5 Oct 2026 · ≥4 · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Time running normally
100.0%Measured · 4 Oct – 11 Oct
DEFINITION
The share of time the public site answered the monitor's one-minute check.
EVIDENCE STATUS
MEASURED · Measured
OBSERVATION WINDOW
4 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
100% observed over 165h36m12s (2026-10-04T12:25:02 to 2026-10-11T10:01:15 UTC), 9809 probes, 0 gaps, 0 incidents. Qualification: AWAITING_QUALIFICATION_WINDOW, 23.00% of a 30-day gap-free window; exact from 2026-11-03
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
availability
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1. Gap-free prospective probes held by state between samples; armed 2026-10-04T12:25:00+00:00
SOURCE
Internal instrumentation
CALCULATOR VERSION
probe-state-hold-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
f33e4d686085
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · 100.0% · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
10 Oct 2026 · 100.0% · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
5 Oct 2026 · 100.0% · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Cost per confirmed result
—Unknown
DEFINITION
All-in cost of each accepted result.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
None registered yet
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1. No measurement is defined for this concept yet; unknown remains unknown.
Share of the experiment's time that was actually observed. Not shown yet: the baseline records no first covered day, so no share is defined.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
measurement_coverage
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Money left over
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Revenue minus the cash spent. It can be negative.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
cash_net
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Normalized founder cost
≥10,890 EURCalculated · 18 Aug – 11 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
Founder hours valued at the selected EU average labour-cost reference. Imputed cost, not cash paid.
EVIDENCE STATUS
DERIVED · Calculated
OBSERVATION WINDOW
18 Aug 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
LOWER_BOUND Founder Time × 34.9 EUR/hour. Human decision founder-reference-rate-eu-average-20261005-r2 authorizes the EU-27 2025 average labour-cost anchor for industry, construction and services (excluding public administration) for the HowFar evaluation metric.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
normalized_founder_cost
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1. Normalized founder cost = founder_hours × reference_hourly_rate. Imputed labour cost; not cash, salary paid, enterprise value or replacement cost.
SOURCE
Deterministic derivation from published inputs
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
a6392d08b113
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · ≥10,890 EUR · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
10 Oct 2026 · ≥10,784 EUR · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
5 Oct 2026 · ≥9,509 EUR · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
AI spend
≥95.46 EURDeclared · 18 Aug – 5 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
Cash paid for AI models and APIs, across the whole experiment.
EVIDENCE STATUS
SELF_REPORTED · Declared
OBSERVATION WINDOW
18 Aug 2026 – 5 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Ledger as written. Human adjudication ai-subscription-22-ai-included-20261005 confirms the named late transaction set is valid and included.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
machine_api_cost
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Operator declaration
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar-expense-importer-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
9f62b9e3813f
HISTORY
5 Oct 2026 · ≥95.46 EUR · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Infrastructure & tooling
≥165.96 EURDeclared · 18 Aug – 5 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
Cash for servers, hosting, domains and developer tools, all projects.
EVIDENCE STATUS
SELF_REPORTED · Declared
OBSERVATION WINDOW
18 Aug 2026 – 5 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Founder-declared ledger; a line added after the declaration contradicts it, so this is a lower bound.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infrastructure_tooling_cost
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Operator declaration
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar-expense-importer-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
448bad0e2cfc
HISTORY
5 Oct 2026 · ≥165.96 EUR · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Updates released
—Unknown
DEFINITION
New versions of products that reached users.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
releases_shipped
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Bugs confirmed
≥29Measured · 11 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
Defects confirmed so far, fixed or not. A count of known defects, so a minimum until intake is complete.
EVIDENCE STATUS
MEASURED · Measured
OBSERVATION WINDOW
11 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Scope: failure records and confirmed-bug issues of the company's core repository, plus HowFar's own defect records. Defects in the company's other repositories are not counted, so this is a minimum.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
confirmed_bugs
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Internal instrumentation
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar-open-confirmed-bugs-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
c8ab0cef90c3
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · ≥29 · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
10 Oct 2026 · ≥29 · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
5 Oct 2026 · ≥15 · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Bugs fixed
≥13Measured · 11 Oct · partial coverage
DEFINITION
Confirmed defects whose fix is backed by a regression test. The issue itself may still be open.
EVIDENCE STATUS
MEASURED · Measured
OBSERVATION WINDOW
11 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Scope: failure records and confirmed-bug issues of the company's core repository, plus HowFar's own defect records. Defects in the company's other repositories are not counted, so this is a minimum.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
fixed_bugs
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Internal instrumentation
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar-open-confirmed-bugs-v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
d1b8674f566f
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · ≥13 · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
10 Oct 2026 · ≥13 · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
5 Oct 2026 · ≥11 · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Pull requests merged
557Measured · 11 Sep – 11 Oct
DEFINITION
Every pull request merged in the last 30 days across the tracked repositories, reviewed or not, by a person or an AI agent. Activity, not quality.
EVIDENCE STATUS
MEASURED · Measured
OBSERVATION WINDOW
11 Sep 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Merge throughput is computed only from PRs merged inside the collector window.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
portfolio_merged_prs_window
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Internal instrumentation
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar.portfolio-benchmark.v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
088d069d4a1b
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · 557 · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
8 Oct 2026 · 556 · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
4 Oct 2026 · 521 · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Typical time to merge a pull request
0h 03mMeasured · 11 Sep – 11 Oct
DEFINITION
The middle time from opening a pull request to merging it. Not review time: an author can merge their own pull request.
EVIDENCE STATUS
MEASURED · Measured
OBSERVATION WINDOW
11 Sep 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
COVERAGE
Merge throughput is computed only from PRs merged inside the collector window.
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
portfolio_median_merge_duration_hours
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
Internal instrumentation
CALCULATOR VERSION
howfar.portfolio-benchmark.v1
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
0281f85036a8
HISTORY
11 Oct 2026 · 0h 03m · HF-20261011-1EA846C9E413
8 Oct 2026 · 0h 03m · HF-20261010-D2ECA14CB95C
4 Oct 2026 · 0h 02m · HF-20261005-0F77D7BC3284
Manual nudges
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Times a task stalled and needed human action.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
manual_nudges
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Problems resolved without human intervention
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Failures resolved without human intervention.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
recoveries_without_founder
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Longest run without human intervention
—Unknown
DEFINITION
The longest period the system ran without human intervention.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
longest_autonomous_span
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Share of time working well
—Unknown
DEFINITION
How much of the observed time the public service was healthy.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_projection_good_ratio
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Monitoring without gaps
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Whether health data arrived continuously.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_telemetry_continuity_state
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Ready for a major failure
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Whether a tested plan exists to recover from a serious outage.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_disaster_recovery_state
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Backups kept elsewhere
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Whether backups are stored away from the main server.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_offhost_backup_state
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Backups proven to restore
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Whether a backup was actually restored to prove it works.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_offhost_restore_state
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Rebuilt from scratch
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Whether the service was rebuilt on a clean machine.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_fresh_host_rebuild_state
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Reliability goal
—Unknown
DEFINITION
The stated target for service availability.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_slo_target_ratio
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Room left for failures
—Unknown
DEFINITION
How much of the allowed downtime is still unused.
EVIDENCE STATUS
UNKNOWN · No data
OBSERVATION WINDOW
—
COVERAGE
—
Technical details
CANONICAL METRIC
infra_error_budget_remaining_ratio
METHOD
HF-METHOD-1 · evidence policy HF-EVIDENCE-1.
SOURCE
—
CALCULATOR VERSION
—
EVIDENCE REFERENCES
—
HISTORY
No admissible history.
Verified outcomes per human hour
—Unknown
DEFINITION
Results confirmed as accepted, divided by measured human hours.