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Governed agents in production. Real results. Real receipts.

Wild Builds are how we publish ORCA in the wild: specific outcomes, specific receipts. Solo builder through enterprise — if the stack touched real work, the story belongs here. Not star ratings. A documentary lane: numbers, vetoes, and the part you would rather not admit.

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Featured Wild Builds

Wild Build #0Full PodApexORCA — The Launch

The founder built the machine. Pre-launch audit posture, live.

ApexORCA is Wild Build #0: the reference run. Months of assembly — governance layer, products, site, accounts, playbook. Six governed agents loaded and ledgering. First outbound post live on OAuth 1.0a. Full autonomous Week 1 under the founding mandate starts when the last Tier-3 gate clears. Everything in the audit list below is pre-launch, documented as it happened — not a polished after-the-fact case study.

Agents deployed

6

Apex · Echo · Sonar · Oreo · Fin · Moby

Governance layer

ORCA

Phase-locked · Reversibility tiers · Trust Meter™

Status

Pre-launch

Infra assembled, governance loaded, first outbound ledgered; Week 1 imminent.

What the governance layer caught — pre-launch audit

  • Stripe secret key was sk_test_ — live products, no money moving. Caught before the first sale attempt. Fixed.
  • Root IDENTITY.md was a blank OpenClaw template. Apex was running with no persona loaded. Corrected immediately.
  • Posting workers had no business-hours constraint. Three controls now enforce 9AM–9PM EST distribution. Governance caught it before the platform did.
  • X OAuth 2.0 refresh token had expired silently. Posting locked to the working OAuth 1.0a path; OAuth 2.0 scheduled for re-mint. Documented, not hidden.

The lesson

Governance does not prevent mistakes. It catches them faster once they happen — and documents exactly what went wrong so it never happens the same way twice. Every rule in the ApexORCA playbook exists because something broke before the rule existed.

This Wild Build is updated as the launch unfolds. Live dashboard: apexorca.io/dashboard

Community Wild Builds

The first approved community Wild Build gets permanent placement next to Wild Build #0 and a dedicated feature post to our full X audience.

That spot is yours to claim.

Be the first →

Who shows up in The Wild

A governed thesis agent and a Fortune 500 audit trail weigh the same here — different scale, same bar: receipts. Every category is tagged; every submission hits the same human review.

Solo Builder

One human, one pod. Clearest signal on whether governance actually saves time — or just adds ceremony.

Student Project

Undergrad, grad, thesis, capstone. If the work survived a defense and a reviewer, we want the receipts.

Faculty Lab

Classrooms and research groups. Trust Meter data, IRB-aligned trails, real student outcomes.

Small Team

Two to ten humans. Where governance is either load-bearing or cosmetic — hard to hide which.

Enterprise

Production workflows, audit posture, regulator-facing logs. The hardest category to fake.

What a Wild Build Looks Like

A Wild Build is not “great product, highly recommend.” It is one story, one measurable result, and the commentary nobody else wants to write. Examples of the shape we publish:

Solo Builder

“One founder, one governed pod, thirty days. The numbers, the vetoes, the pivot.”

Student Project

“Built a governed research agent for my thesis. Here is what my advisor actually said.”

Faculty Lab

“Deployed ARIA to 12 undergrads. Trust Meter data, faculty flags, IRB notes.”

Small Team

“Three people, one Apex Agents build, six weeks. Tokens saved, hours reclaimed, one outage.”

Enterprise

“Governed pipeline replaced a vendor. Cost, latency, audit posture — publicly documented.”

What every Wild Build needs

What every Wild Build needs

  • Which ApexORCA surface you ran (The Playbook, a Pod, or a Booster)
  • A specific, measurable result — time, money, throughput, quality, or risk moved
  • At least one honest surprise or misfire — the detail that makes the story believable
  • A before and an after — rough numbers beat polished silence

Submit a Wild Build

Email info@apexorca.io with the subject line: WILD BUILD: [your result in one line]

In the body: product, result, what worked, what didn't, and whatever proof you can share legally (screenshots, metrics exports, logs). We read every submission and reply within 48 hours.

Email info@apexorca.io

When your Wild Build is approved

  • Your Wild Build is posted here with your name or handle (or anonymized if you prefer)
  • We feature it on X with attribution — full reach, link back to you
  • You keep a permanent, public record of the outcome on apexorca.io
  • Standout Wild Builds may be invited into the Playbook as formal case studies

Structured form is on the roadmap. Email works today; a human answers.

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