Lab 001 — Zachary Chester, Operator
I'm Zach. This is my lab bench — the apps that are live, the experiments still running, and the ones I killed and logged. MemberPort, Riftstorm, CartFlow, a quant desk, and whatever shipped this week. The studio is what the lab does for money. You can hire it.
Every idea that crosses this bench ends one of four ways: kill it, refine it, pilot it, or productize it. Two made it all the way to the exit column. The rest of the book is open and running — that's what the ledger below is for.
the receipt prints once. everything on it is real.
| ID | Artifact | Surface | Status | Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXP-007 | MemberPort | Shopify → Discord access | Live | memberport.io ↗ |
| EXP-004 | Riftstorm.gg | Deck building / gaming | Live | riftstorm.gg ↗ |
| EXP-005 | SalesOp AI | AI sales operations | Live | live SaaS |
| EXP-001 | CartFlow | Cart conversion | Pilot | Shopify App Store |
| EXP-002 | Custom Accounts | Membership accounts | Pilot | Shopify App Store |
| EXP-006 | Shopify MCP | AI ↔ store context | Pilot | Shopify App Store |
| EXP-003 | Phantom Node | USD/JPY quant desk | In build | private |
| EXP-008 | RP Journal | Structured journal — ██████ | In build | not ready to show |
| XIT-001 | Zero-Value Inc | SaaS — $30K MRR in 60 days | Sold | exit 2019 |
| XIT-002 | Expand Your Roots | Supplements — #1 in Canada | Exited | Mutant exclusive |
Agencies see client opportunities they can't productize. SaaS teams have ideas stuck behind engineering priorities. Operators know a workflow is broken. I run the same bench for you: frame it, build it, test it, and hand you a decision — not a deck.
