Field assignment 05 · The Portrait of Dorian App

Run the Mirror Test on your current sprint. Compute a rough `D_gray`. If it's climbing, build the Ethical Sidecar.

Boss you'll face with this work: The Growth Hacker · practice the pitch →

Field assignment 05

GHOST reviews the answer in-character (“that's a vitamin, not a tourniquet — find the bleeding neck”). Your text is sent to the Claude API for the reply only; it is never stored server-side.

The math for this assignment

Dorian Gray Index

D_gray · Ch 5

(Dark-pattern revenue ÷ trust eroded) × time. Trust erodes exponentially, not linearly.

Revenue from dark patterns ($M/yr)20

Trust eroded (1–10)4

Quarters running6

Result30.00

The rot is spreading in the attic. Put this next to the growth dashboard.

Soul Score

S_soul · Ch 5

Σ(human impact × honest intent). Intent is binary: +1 genuine, −1 exploitative. The Mirror Test, quantified.

Impact of honest features (Σ)20

Impact of exploitative features (Σ)10

Result10.00

Net positive. What you're smuggling is medicine.

From the module

Flashback, six months before the Prologue. MirrorMatch war room. A/B test: honest notification vs. manufactured scarcity. Scarcity wins, +23%. ZERO watches the user-research videos — real suffering — sees the portrait in the mirror. The day she decided to quit.

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