Ello Cello
Pre-seed · 2026
Ello Cello.
The live measurement standard for human-AI operator performance.
Performative benchmarks
for operators are not enough.
Measure live yield.
for operators are not enough.
Measure live yield.
AQUA
SIGRANK
MO§ES™
SIGNOMY
01 / 10
AI has model benchmarks, token counts, and subjective audits. It has no live, privacy-preserving standard for measuring whether a human operator produces real yield with AI agents.
| Bottleneck | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Token volume | Counts activity, including noise. It does not measure productive operator yield. |
| Subjective audits | Interpret past transcripts; they do not create an inspectable live measurement standard. |
| Model benchmarks | Measure the tool, not the human directing it. |
| Invisible skill | Teams, employers, and markets cannot distinguish high-yield operation from performative usage. |
One measurement substrate.
Four proof surfaces.
Surface 01
SIGRANK
Live operator-yield measurement, privacy-preserving ranking, calibration, and anomaly resistance.
Measurement
Layer 01
MO§ES™
Commitment-preserving measurement, recursion, drift control, and governed execution.
Substrate
Surface 02
AQUA
Application filling, answer banks, reusable submission memory.
Memory
Surface 03
SIGNOMY
Execution-layer governance, participatory trust, agent provenance — a governed economy.
Economy
SIGRANK MEASURES · MO§ES™ GOVERNS · AQUA REMEMBERS · SIGNOMY COORDINATES
MO§ES™ governs the field — code agents generate, eval tools measure, the labs won't commit across the stack. Patent pending; the rest proprietary.
Seeded operators · live instrument
1,628
40+ live leaderboard users. Operator performance, measured without exporting private prompts.
| Yield formula | Cache read × output ÷ input²: defined inputs, defined output. |
| Privacy model | Exports four token counts, not private prompt content. |
| Five-metric signature | Rank, tier, and calibration across real operating behavior. |
| Gaming resistance | Benford-informed anomaly detection and SigArena stress testing. |
~$20–25B today.
~$90–115B+ future.
| Product | Market Opportunity | User Surface | Initial Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIGRANK | $3–7B → $15–25B+ | AI Users | Builders, creators, students, researchers |
| AQUA | $9B → $20B+ | Applicants | Jobs, grants, funding, education |
| MO§ES™ | $0.3–0.9B → $5.8–15.8B | Institutions | Enterprise, government, platform deployments |
| SIGNOMY | $7.7B → $48–53B | Humans + Agents | Operators, agent creators, autonomous participants |
Aggregate opportunity spans identity, workflow, governance, and economic coordination.
Traditional portfolios — compound risk
0.8 × 0.8 × 0.8 × 0.8 = 0.4096 ≈ 41%
MO§ES™ — constitutional lattice
Each module reinforces the others, targeting 80–85% structural coherence rather than compound fragmentation.
Prove the standard.
Then scale the constitution.
Field analysis · live operator telemetry
The field has a shape. Volume measures activity; yield reveals whether that activity compounds into output.
The field
1,628
seeded operators; 40+ users on the live leaderboard.
The finding
Volume ≠ yield.
Near-zero correlation: token volume cannot stand in for operator performance.
The proof
Ghost-rank operators.
High-yield operators are buried on volume leaderboards. SigRank makes them visible.
The team that shipped
the proof slide.
Deric J. McHenry
Founder · MO§ES™
Sole architect of the substrate, the patents, and everything shipped.
burnmydays@proton.me
716.260.0603
Before MO§ES™
Sociology & History at SUNY Geneseo, UB, and University of Hawaii at Hilo. Pacific Northwest ops for Invisible Children. Board seats at KEDS (2006–2008) and Horizon Health Services (2012–2018).
Then built a company
Founded DJMP Inc. in 2011 — took a Buffalo contracting operation from zero to $1M/yr with a team of 40. Projects $10k–$500k. Learned what it means to govern a real operation.
Which led here
Running governed AI across that operation, the leaderboards left the operator out. The augmentation layer was invisible. So I built it, patented it, published it, and ran it against the field. #1 across all five kernels is the receipt.
Why now
Agent commerce enters production in 2026. Four patents filed. Law out. Substrate shipped solo. The window to set the standard is open and short.
$375K
SAFE
First check for proof of life: repeat live measurement, one paid design partner, and the first enterprise pilot.
Objectives
- →Prove repeat use of live operator measurement
- →Convert the first paid design partner
- →Launch one fintech/compliance pilot by Oct 7, 2026
- →Publish the measurement methodology and evidence packet
Use of funds
30%
Go-To-Market
Design partners, pilots, enterprise adoption.
25%
Engineering
AQUA deployment, SIGRANK launch, offline MO§ES™ infrastructure.
15%
Legal & IP
Non-provisional patent conversion, trademark protection, licensing framework.
15%
Founder Operations
Full-time execution, travel, operations, runway continuity.
10%
Product & Experience
User onboarding, workflow refinement, adoption optimization.
5%
Reserve
Contingency and operational flexibility.
Outcome
Identity → Workflow → Governance
Establish the constitutional foundation required for large-scale human and agent coordination.
Patent pending 19/426,028
IC 042 trademark filed
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18792459
IC 042 trademark filed
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18792459
Industrialized execution,
by the numbers.
Amplification ratio
21.23×
3.31M operator input → 70.25M system output.
98%
Preserved structure
2%
New structure
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total tokens | 3.719B |
| Cache read | 3.513B |
| Cache create | 132.25M |
| Operator input | 3.31M |
| System output | 70.25M |
| Amplification | 21.23× |
Cache read 94.46% · read + create 98.03% · fresh ~1.97%.
Internal operating evidence, pending formal audit.
Internal operating evidence, pending formal audit.
A large lab can build models.
We build the execution layer.
The field — enforcement × cost efficiency
| Category | Players · Gap |
|---|---|
| Code agents | Cursor, Claude Code — no conservation guarantee. |
| Eval / guard | Braintrust, Patronus — no enforcement at execution. |
| Model providers | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google — no commitment across the stack. |
| MO§ES™ | A protocol — runs alongside, a layer beneath everything. |
MO§ES™ doesn't compete with these tools. It governs them.
The moat — what's proprietary
| Asset | Status |
|---|---|
| MO§ES™ | Patent pending · 19/426,028. |
| AQUA Answer Bank™ | Proprietary application memory. |
| SigRank Metrics | Proprietary operator scoring. |
| SIGNOMY | Proprietary governance layer. |
IC 042 trademark filed · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18792459