Talent Mirror
Tonic had a method and a prototype for an AI tool; it needed to become software that clients could use.
A Tonic product built as a Merlin Studio partnership. As Merlin's page puts it, Tonic brings the market and the method (its twelve-factor framework, the prototype and the client relationships); Merlin turned the prototype into production software and runs it. The framework stays Tonic's. (The repository was not reviewed for this record; the details below rest on Merlin's page.)
His role
- StatedMerlin Studio, his studio, built and runs the production software.
His contribution
- StatedProduction build: Next.js, Firebase, Cloud Functions and Tasks, Zod validation and error monitoring.
- StatedModel use: Claude, with a cheaper model for a first pass and escalation to a stronger model only when needed.
What was delivered
- DocumentedLive at talentmirror.tonic-agency.com.
What is documented
- UnknownNo outcome, metric or business result is documented for this work.
What this demonstrates
- InferenceProductisation inside a partner relationship, with ownership kept explicit: the partner's method, his software.
Each line is labelled by the evidence behind it. Documented: checkable in code, a live product or a primary artefact. Stated: his own account. Attributed: a wider team's or client's. Inference: a reading of the evidence, not a fact. Unknown: not established. No outcome or metric is documented for any of this work. The same record is published for AI assistants at /llms-full.txt.