[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":76},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Flabs\u002Fshey":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cover":58,"description":51,"extension":59,"meta":60,"navigation":61,"order":52,"path":62,"role":63,"seo":64,"stack":65,"status":70,"stem":71,"summary":72,"url":73,"year":74,"__hash__":75},"labsProjects\u002Flabs\u002Fshey.md","Shey",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":50},"minimark",[9,14,18,21,24,28,31,34,38,41,44,47],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"why-it-exists","Why it exists",[15,16,17],"p",{},"Every founder carries a second internal operating system that never gets written down. Half-formed strategy. Pricing questions. Decisions about people. Frustrations. Stuck problems. That operating system is where most of the real work gets done, but it usually gets done in fragmented places — a notes app, a Slack thread with yourself, a voice memo, a stack of handwritten pages.",[15,19,20],{},"The problem with all of those places is that they are storage, not thinking partners. A founder needs a thinking partner. Most founders do not have one. Co-founders, if they exist, are often too close to the immediate work. Coaches are expensive and scheduled. Therapists have a different job. Friends cannot be on-demand.",[15,22,23],{},"Shey was built to be the thinking partner. A notebook that reads what you write and marks it up — margin notes, questions, next moves — the way a sharp co-founder would scribble in the margins of your draft while you stepped away.",[10,25,27],{"id":26},"where-it-sits","Where it sits",[15,29,30],{},"Shey is B3n Labs' first pure AI-first product. Not an AI feature bolted onto a traditional product — a product whose entire value proposition only becomes possible when the AI layer is good enough to be a credible thinking partner.",[15,32,33],{},"It is also the clearest expression of what \"AI-first\" means in Labs practice. The notebook UI looks familiar — cream paper, dot grid, margin space. The reading experience feels like a paper notebook. The thinking experience is something that did not exist two years ago. That is the right side of the product line: AI where it makes the experience newly possible, invisible where it does not.",[10,35,37],{"id":36},"what-compounds","What compounds",[15,39,40],{},"Two things.",[15,42,43],{},"First, the model of how a user thinks compounds across sessions. Shey remembers how you frame problems, where you get stuck, which kinds of questions unlock your thinking. By the fourth or fifth notebook, Shey's margin notes are more useful than the first session's — not because the underlying model is smarter, but because Shey has learned the user.",[15,45,46],{},"Second, the notebook itself compounds. Every entry becomes context for the next entry. A strategic decision written in March gets referenced in June when a related decision shows up. Founders rarely have the discipline to build a personal knowledge base manually; Shey builds it by virtue of being the place they already write.",[15,48,49],{},"The category Shey is in is going to get crowded fast. The product that wins will be the one that founders actually use daily — not the one with the most features. We are betting on the notebook metaphor, the restraint, and the compounding-per-user experience to be the edge.",{"title":51,"searchDepth":52,"depth":52,"links":53},"",3,[54,56,57],{"id":12,"depth":55,"text":13},2,{"id":26,"depth":55,"text":27},{"id":36,"depth":55,"text":37},"\u002Fbrands\u002Fshey.svg","md",{},true,"\u002Flabs\u002Fshey","Founder, Product lead",{"title":5,"description":51},[66,67,68,69],"AI-native margin-note system","Multi-model reasoning layer","Notebook-style UI (cream, minimal, dark, dot-grid, ruled)","Cross-session memory","live","labs\u002Fshey","A thinking room for founders. An AI-native notebook where you write messy, unfinished thoughts and Shey marks up your notebook with observations, questions, and next moves — like a sharp co-founder scribbling in the margins.","https:\u002F\u002Fgetshey.com",2025,"814Br9l6JxkrkF58jD8u22HI-0rVlKrQLjYm5ZpW_Ds",1776610213018]