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The Founder's Clause
Corporate Thriller · Silicon Valley Noir (English) · Story God Original

The Founder's Clause

Twelve hours before a $4B acquisition. The chief researcher dead in the vault. Four insiders decide who takes the payout and who takes federal prison.

4 players · 4 episodes, one each morning · $1.99

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Sloane
Playing as Sloane
The Visionary CEO · “Hid a fatal model alignment failure to close the acquisition before dawn.”
📍 Where You Are

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aetheris AI. You built the company from a garage into a $4B acquisition target, but you suppressed Dr. Chen's safety warnings to keep Apex at the table. You hold the master building lockout codes.

🔫 Your Loaded Gun

Hid a fatal model alignment failure to close the acquisition before dawn.

Choose Your Action For Night 1:

The premise

A four-player high-stakes corporate thriller across four email chapters. Trade board leverage, control encrypted drives, and decide who signs the wire before dawn.

Every morning, each player receives a private episode in their inbox: what their character saw, what they learned, and a choice only they can make. They reply with their decision whenever suits them that day, and the next episode follows from what everyone chose. No app, no account, no scheduling a time to play together.

The cast

4 roles. Each player takes one.

Sloane
Sloane
The Visionary CEO
“Hid a fatal model alignment failure to close the acquisition before dawn.”

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aetheris AI. You built the company from a garage into a $4B acquisition target, but you suppressed Dr. Chen's safety warnings to keep Apex at the table. You hold the master building lockout codes.

Devon: Your technical co-founder—brilliant but naive; you suspect his panicked script triggered the vault purge.
Priya: Your General Counsel—brought in for defense, but now holding an unsigned whistleblower affidavit.
Marcus: Your lead investor—demanding the wire clears before European market open to cover his fund deficit.
Devon
Devon
The Co-Founder CTO
“Holds the private root key that wiped the safety logs at 11:14 PM.”

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. You created the core frontier model architecture. At 11:12 PM, your automated script wiped the training checkpoint logs Dr. Chen was trying to preserve, accidentally tripping the nitrogen purge.

Sloane: Your CEO—who commoditized your research and ordered unaligned weights shipped to enterprise clients.
Priya: Your General Counsel—who demands your physical root key to evaluate corporate exposure.
Marcus: Your lead investor—who diluted your equity and offered a secret severance deal to testify against Sloane.
Priya
Priya
The General Counsel
“Possesses the unsigned whistleblower affidavit and a secret SEC immunity offer.”

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Recruited from white-collar defense, you hold an SEC preservation letter and a draft whistleblower affidavit that offers full immunity—if submitted before the wire transfers.

Sloane: Your CEO—pressuring you to sign a clean closing certification that would make you a felony co-conspirator.
Devon: Your CTO—holding the physical hardware drive containing the benchmark logs the DOJ wants.
Marcus: Your lead investor—using his private security detail to monitor executive movement in the building.
Marcus
Marcus
The Lead Investor
“Needs the buyout to cover a fund liquidity crisis—at any human cost.”

Managing Director of Horizon Ventures. Facing an $80M margin call in Zurich at European market open, you need the $4B acquisition wire to execute before dawn or face immediate fund insolvency and personal ruin.

Sloane: Your CEO—you hold her undated resignation letter and will unseat her if she hesitates at the terminal.
Devon: Your CTO—you offered him a secret indemnity package to isolate Sloane.
Priya: Your General Counsel—whose legal opinion letter is the single condition standing between you and the wire.

How it works

  1. 1

    Add your friends

    Enter the email addresses of the 4 people you want to play with. Nobody needs an app or an account.

  2. 2

    They reply YES

    Each friend confirms by replying YES to the invitation email. Players must be 18+, and anyone can reply STOP at any time.

  3. 3

    One episode every morning

    Each player gets a private episode from their character's point of view, then replies with their choice.

  4. 4

    The ending

    After the final episode, everyone receives the ending, with the choices each player made in secret revealed.

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