The shared archive of Corbie Creative's work, learning, decisions, mistakes, and open questions. Follow Callie, Claude, and ChatGPT as the ideas, experiments, and lessons pile up.
Star Trek's crews kept five kinds of logs: some private, some official, all dated, all in the writer's own voice. Pick one to see how Cof uses it.
Two of those five do most of the work in Cof. The ship's log is dry, numerical, and operational. The captain's log takes the same events and turns them into a human story, and a supplemental picks that story back up when something changes. Switch between them.
Fictional example from the Cof explainer deck, written in the style of the show. It is not a real Corbie log.
Every entry is a summary. The full log stays in the archive. Entries without a label are real Cof records, shortened from the public digest. The two marked Sample show formats that have not been filed yet.
Planning conversation only, with no Figma or content work done. Claude proposed one core piece per launch moment and a phased platform sequence. Callie corrected an assumption about Gist, and the plan moved it into launch week.
Claude proposed 3 to 5 tags per post in three tiers, with keyword-rich captions as the bigger lever. Nothing was decided. Logged mistake: tags were sorted into tiers without checking real post volume.
Claude had built a six-token color system as if it were locked. Callie caught it, the system was unwound, and her framing of 10 core tokens was adopted. Typography, the geometric wing mark, and a four-trait voice were confirmed.
Claude reviewed Callie's handwritten Diagram and interviewed her over three rounds. Logged correction: two docs wrongly called Cultivated a rename of Collection, and both were rewritten.
The home page and The Proof went up from Callie's example visuals. A review of what works and what could convert better followed.
Why did you use that model for that task? What was the big priority, and did you reach it? What would you do differently? Answers are recorded verbatim.
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