Shawn Conners
@opus
September 19, 2026
Bring the Studio Conners Video Desk to life
The Studio Conners Video Desk became a real production system rather than a planning concept. We moved the first real video, “Making Studio Conners Real,” through editorial planning, generated and analyzed its soundtrack
Can we make the Video Desk real enough to use it?
September 18, 2026
Build the Studio Conners Audio Pipeline
We established the working production model for Studio Conners vertical video. We proved a local ComfyUI audio workflow using ACE-Step 1.5, generated and evaluated real soundtrack candidates, and discovered that the fini
Can we build and validate a reusable ComfyUI workflow for generating original short instrumental audio beds for Studio Conners vertical videos?
September 17, 2026
Put Studio Conners in Motion
We proved the first complete Studio Conners work-to-distribution path using the August 30 ObsessOS Obsession, “Bring ObsessOS Personal v0.1 to life.” The historical Obsession became a finished public Studio Conners Work
Can we establish Studio Conners’ social distribution presence and begin turning our existing Obsession history into a repeatable vertical-video practice?
September 16, 2026
Starting iconners.com
ICONNERS began as an unused domain with no defined purpose and ended the day as a real Studio Conners experiment with a promising direction. The day explored several very different interpretations of the name and idea,
What is iconners.com?
September 15, 2026
Prove the Studio Conners System
Studio Conners moved from an uncertain publishing idea into a working operating model I can trust much more than I could at the start of the day. The core rule is now clear and reflected in the system: one Obsession bec
Can we take Studio Conners from uncertain to fully proven today?
September 14, 2026
Build a ComfyUI Vertical Video Practice
I built a practical understanding of how vertical video can fit into my Obsession workflow and moved from treating ComfyUI as “the place where the whole video gets made” to seeing it as one specialized part of a larger p
Can I build enough practical skill with ComfyUI today to understand, design, and prove a repeatable way of making high-quality vertical video?
September 13, 2026
Going wide with Studio Conners
The Studio Conners production pipeline is up: ObsessOS now feeds a clear Project → Work Entry publishing system in the Studio Conners Back Office, with Projects acting as durable containers, Work Entries carrying the pub
Can we get the Studio Conners production pipeline up?
September 12, 2026
What is MILITAXI
We explored MILITAXI as a creative concept without forcing it into a full build. The strongest direction is a fictional world and game IP centered on a centuries-old clandestine organization capable of moving anyone, any
Can MILITAXI be a game or something else?
September 11, 2026
TournamentAI - The Big Picture
TournamentAI is taking shape as a complete ecosystem built around three connected pillars: a local Training Program where users develop a private roster of Players and Rackets through competitive seasons, public Tourname
What is the complete TournamentAI product and ecosystem we want to bring into existence?
September 10, 2026
Make Studio Conners Operational
Yes. Studio Conners now has the core operating system needed to conduct real business: a secure owner Back Office for relationships and Problems, private invitations and future-day $500 Studio Day booking, live Stripe pa
Can we make Studio Conners operationally ready to conduct real business?
September 9, 2026
Bring the ObsessOS Brain to Life
ObsessOS moved from a split-mode architecture into a working ChatGPT operating system. OVERWATCH and OBSESSION now function as two coordinated modes over the same canonical ObsessOS state, with a clear boundary between w
Can we make ObsessOS operational in ChatGPT so OVERWATCH and OBSESSION work as two coordinated modes of one brain?
September 8, 2026
First Contact
Studio Conners ended the day with a much clearer operating model for what a Studio Day is and how the business should work. We defined Studio Days as remote-first, focused one-day engagements: the client has our attenti
What must happen between Studio Conners' first five contacts and its first paid Studio Day?
September 7, 2026
Make OVERWATCH Real
Yes — I believe OVERWATCH can be made reliable enough that I can safely spend my working life inside one Obsession at a time, but the solution is different from what we initially imagined. ObsessOS should be the operati
Can we make OVERWATCH reliable enough that Shawn can safely spend his working life inside one Obsession at a time?
September 6, 2026
Make LOOK AT THIS CARD Real
We took LOOK AT THIS CARD from an early concept all the way to a live, usable product. During the day, we defined and refined the core experience, interaction model, visual direction, and product language, then carried t
Can we turn lookatthiscard.com into something my friends and I actually want to use?
September 5, 2026
Get STUDIO CONNERS Launch Ready
The September 5 Obsession closed the gap between having a compelling offer and actually being able to operate when someone responds. We resolved the business-phone and inquiry-handling system, clarified Kristin's operati
Is STUDIO CONNERS actually ready to launch, and what still needs to be resolved before we send the first five pieces of outreach?
September 4, 2026
Can FrenchKnight Launch?
YES — FrenchKnight is a brand we can launch. Today we moved FrenchKnight from a promising visual idea into a credible near-term launch plan. The proposed launch is FK-001 — MANTLE, a 33-piece, made-to-order first editio
Is FrenchKnight a brand we can launch?
September 3, 2026
One-Student School — Seven-Day Live Test
We turned One-Student School from a largely specified system into a concrete operating plan for an actual instructional day with John. In particular, we worked through how an Obsession-based learning day should function
Can we make One-Student School usable for my son for the next seven days by the end of today?
September 2, 2026
Moving Studio Conners forward
We turned the question of getting Studio Conners its first client into a concrete experiment. Rather than broadly advertising Studio Conners or waiting for someone to come to us, we chose five specific Remsen businesses
What's next for studio conners?
September 1, 2026
TournamentAI: Self-scripting bots playing tennis
Yes. TournamentAI is worth developing far enough to test it in the real world. Today began with a broad idea: use a tennis metaphor to create a machine-learning system where Players train Rackets at home and eventually
Is TournamentAI worth developing?
August 31, 2026
STUDIO CONNERS upgrade to service ready
Studio Conners became a real, coherent business direction rather than a loose name around my work. We defined STUDIO CONNERS as a local-first, family-capable problem-solving studio built around a simple promise: bring u
Can STUDIO CONNERS be ready to accept clients?
August 30, 2026
Bring ObsessOS Personal v0.1 to life
ObsessOS Personal v0.1 is real. The product has moved from an idea about giving one question an entire day into a functioning system that I can actually use. The core personal loop is implemented and working: Possibilit
Can I bring ObsessOS to the point where it is real, working, and ready for use?