# Corpus Inventory

Date: 2026-06-13

This inventory was produced from the project-root `.docx` files by extracting
plain text from the document XML. Word counts are approximate.

| File | Approx. Words | Working Role |
|---|---:|---|
| `20241228 corpus_v1-0.docx` | 56,514 | Earliest large corpus / proof of work / broad exploratory base |
| `20250703 TT Intro Macro Angle v230.docx` | 14,764 | Macro angle and seven-step chain of logic |
| `20251003 TT Intro Paper PHASE 1 v20.docx` | 38,605 | Large phased intro paper with phenomenon, core idea, and what-to-build parts |
| `20251229 TT Intro Post - IRL Version v310.docx` | 17,164 | Best current conceptual spine defining the creative form |
| `20260513 WTB X Article GPTPro v600 .docx` | 4,456 | Newest what-to-build / agentic coding extension |
| `Charles Starnes Resume.docx` | 1,016 | User background and credibility context |

## Useful Current Reading Order

1. `20251229 TT Intro Post - IRL Version v310.docx`
2. `20260513 WTB X Article GPTPro v600 .docx`
3. `20250703 TT Intro Macro Angle v230.docx`
4. `20251003 TT Intro Paper PHASE 1 v20.docx`
5. `20241228 corpus_v1-0.docx`
6. `Charles Starnes Resume.docx` as background context

This order prioritizes the clearest current theory before older exploratory
material.

## Extracted Outline Highlights

### `20251229 TT Intro Post - IRL Version v310.docx`

- Defines value-led audience building as a coherent creative form.
- Establishes success criteria:
  - sustained demand for the creative itself,
  - demand for a business or endeavor beyond the creative,
  - viability over an open-ended horizon.
- Uses storytelling as the structural lens.
- Applies storytelling at the meta-story level.
- Centers the audience member as protagonist.
- Derives the Idealized Achieved State (IAS).
- Clarifies that the main story is meant to happen in real life, not merely be
  narrated.
- Describes creative as satisfying the theme.
- Maps implications for creators, incumbents, media, products, services,
  software, data, AI, LLM legibility, and theme space.

### `20260513 WTB X Article GPTPro v600 .docx`

- Starts from the agentic coding moment.
- Argues that lower build cost increases the importance of idea quality.
- Proposes meaningful higher-order states as a source of build ideas.
- Uses story structure to model movement from complication to resolution.
- Treats outcome ideas as the unit of design.
- Connects media/audience formation to software validation and distribution.
- Uses projection as a method for mapping concrete build ideas to fuller
  outcomes.

### `20250703 TT Intro Macro Angle v230.docx`

- Gives a concise macro framing of Theme Theory.
- Introduces the "going direct" phenomenon.
- Treats the work as a new creative form.
- Introduces classical narrativization.
- Presents the idealized achieved state.
- Lays out a toolset including theme identification, audience potential,
  scalable creative production, LLM legibility, software, data, AI, goods, and
  services.

### `20251003 TT Intro Paper PHASE 1 v20.docx`

- Organized into:
  - Part I: the phenomenon,
  - Part II: the core idea,
  - Part III: what to build.
- Contains sections on audience building, giving value, pure entertainment vs.
  adverts, one story, IAS, theme funnel, creative production, and what to build
  across media, tech, and traditional goods/services.

### `20241228 corpus_v1-0.docx`

- Broad initial corpus with extensive exploratory material.
- Includes core theory, theme funnel, creative process, extensions beyond media,
  data/software/AI, transactional goods/services, media vs. non-media business,
  theme space, and an extended stylist reference.
- Likely valuable as source material, examples, and prior reasoning, but not as
  the starting spine for public structure.