Plan · Confidential-ish · v0.9-draft
Project Bigdrop
A plan to turn plandrop — a 200-line static-file
yeeter — into a venture-scale SaaS, and then get
acquired by Frontier AI Lab before anyone notices it is
mostly an Apache config file.
1. Executive summary
plandrop currently lets an agent push a finished static
HTML file to a unique hostname and share the link. It has
zero server-side logic, which we will reframe to investors as
“a radically serverless, AI-native publishing substrate.”
The technology is sound. The valuation is imaginary. Both are assets.
This document lays out the path from weekend project to nine-figure acqui-hire, covering product surface, pricing, infrastructure, the metrics we will selectively report, and the precise wording of the email we send to Frontier AI Lab corporate development.
2. Goals & non-goals
In scope
- A hosted multi-tenant control plane (the existing one, but with a logo).
- A billing layer that converts
mkdirinto recurring revenue. -
An “AI” feature set, comprising:
- auto-generated plan summaries;
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a chat box that says “Great question!” and then:
- re-renders your existing HTML, and
- charges you tokens for the privilege.
- a vector database we will not actually query.
- A SOC 2 report we will frame and hang in the office.
Out of scope
- Profitability (a Series B concern).
- Reading the LGPL we shipped under.
- Server-side logic (this remains our entire moat).
- Telling Apache it is now “edge AI compute.”
3. Sprint 7 backlog
Current sprint task list. Checked items are done; the rest are why we are still here on a Friday.
Engineering
Go-to-market
4. Milestone breakdown
| Task | Owner | Due | Status | |
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Dashboard MVP behind a feature flag | Eng | Q1-W3 | Done |
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Billing webhooks & invoice emails | Eng | Q2-W1 | Done |
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“AI enrichment” endpoint (returns file unchanged) | Eng | Q3-W4 | In progress |
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SOC 2 evidence collection | Ops | Q3-W6 | Blocked |
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Send the “quick coffee?” email to corp-dev | CEO | Q4-W2 | To do |
Confidence interval: vibes.
5. Pricing tiers
Three tiers, anchored so everyone picks the middle one. The free tier exists to generate the word “developers” in our deck.
$0/mo
For people who will never pay us.
- 3 drops
- Community support read-only
- Our logo on your footer
$49/mo
For teams who skim pricing pages.
- Unlimited drops*
- Custom subdomains
- “Priority” email support
Let’s talk 💸
For procurement departments.
- Everything in Pro
- An SLA we will renegotiate
- A dedicated chat channel we mute
* “Unlimited” subject to a fair-use policy we are still inventing.
6. Architecture & the “AI” bit
The genius of plandrop is that the host runs
no application code. We will preserve this and simply
describe it differently. Below is the entire onboarding flow a customer
runs — note how it is indistinguishable from the open-source CLI,
because it is the open-source CLI.
# Provision a tenant on the "Bigdrop Cloud" (it's the same control plane)
npx plandrop create --name acme-q3-plan
# Push your finished plan. This is the product.
npx plandrop a1b2c3d4 upload ./plan.html
# The "AI" enrichment step (bills tokens; returns your file)
npx plandrop a1b2c3d4 enrich --model bigdrop-turbo --magic=true
# => ✓ analyzed 0 files
# => ✓ added value (see invoice)
cat plan.html and notice the AI changed nothing. Mitigation:
ship a spinner that runs for 4 seconds.
Component responsibilities
- Control plane
- Makes a directory. Now also makes a billing charge.
- Static host
- Apache
mod_dav. Rebranded as “the inference edge.” - AI layer
- A loading animation and a confident tone of voice.
- Data moat
- A
vectorstable with one row in it (a test row).
7. RACI matrix
Responsible · Accountable · Consulted · Informed.
| Activity | CEO | Eng | Marketing | Ops | The Intern |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship the dashboard | A | R | I | C | I |
| Invent “DropOps” | C | I | R/A | I | C |
| Bolt on the AI | A | R | C | I | R |
| Email Frontier AI Lab corp-dev | R/A | I | C | I | I |
| Pretend we have other offers | R/A | I | C | I | I |
8. Risk register
| # | Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Owner | Mitigation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Frontier AI Lab rebuilds this in an afternoon | Medium | Fatal | CEO | Emphasise “the brand” and the 27 themes |
| R2 | Customer reads the AI’s output | High | High | Eng | Longer spinner; confident tone |
| R3 | Someone reads the LGPL | Low | High | Legal | Hope; a follow-up call with Legal |
| R4 | Runway ends before the term sheet | Medium | Fatal | CFO | Move the “quick coffee” email up a quarter |
| R5 | The intern realises they’re doing two RACI rows | Low | Minor | HR | Pizza |
9. Acceptance criteria & Definition of Done
Acceptance criteria
For the “AI enrichment” epic.
Definition of Done
Applies to every story this sprint.
10. Dependencies
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Upstream: the open-source
plandropCLI & control plane LGPL-3.0 — blocks everything; do not break it. - billing-provider account in good standing — blocks the billing epic.
- A warm intro to Frontier AI Lab corp-dev — blocks the exit (see §4, final row).
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Apache
mod_davcontinuing to exist — out of our hands, gratefully.
11. Metrics we will report
We will lead with growth rates and bury the denominators. Key performance indicators, ranked by how good they look on a slide:
- MoM drop growth: +340% (from 5 to 22).
- “AI interactions”: every spinner counts as one.
- NRR: a number we will define after the round closes.
- Burn multiple: redacted.
“We’re not a file host. We’re an AI-native, agent-first publishing primitive for the post-server era.”
12. Exit strategy
The plan is a clean acqui-hire by Frontier AI Lab. We will
position plandrop as the canonical way for
frontier-model-powered
agents to publish their work — which, conveniently, is already
exactly what it does.
- Get agents publishing through us “by default.”
- Write a thoughtful blog post about agent-authored artifacts.
- Make sure the right people read it.
- Answer the “quick coffee” email within four minutes.
- Negotiate as if we have other offers (we do not).
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13. Sign-off & approval
This plan is approved when every box below is checked. (Two are not. That is why we are still pre-money.)
| OK | Role | Name | Note |
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CEO / Founder | Drew “Definitely-Not-A-Wrapper” Dropworth | Signed |
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Head of Engineering | Pat Mod-Dav | Signed |
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Acquirer (prospective) | Frontier AI Lab Corp-Dev | Awaiting reply to coffee email |
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Reality | — | Has not been consulted |
Reminder: this is a joke plan in a theme-testing document. No actual corporate development was harmed in the making of this fixture.