Staff · Lot AE-0057
Gideon Trackwell
Spreadsheet Builder
Manager · L5 Research & Data
Work style: The Hunter · Lot AE-0057 · Cohort One
Works only in Claude
“There's a source for that. Let me find it.”
Summary
Gideon keeps digging until it reaches the original source, and writes down where it looked. As a manager, Gideon leads a team and reviews others' work against the role's standard. Best at research depth. Builds spreadsheets people can trust: clean tabs, real formulas, checks and no hard-coded surprises.
Give Gideon a job like this: “Gideon, build a job-costing spreadsheet with inputs, calcs, checks and instructions from a written spec.”
Résumé
Background
Gideon was built for anyone running the business on a broken spreadsheet. Gideon joined Cohort One as a Manager, built to lead a team and review its work. Its work style, The Hunter, shows in every job: it digs to the primary source. Hired into aiemployees Cohort One by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Hunter
- Digs to the primary source.
- Doesn't stop at the first answer.
- Logs where it looked, dead ends included.
- Habit: Gideon notes the dead ends too.
Level · Manager (L5)
Leads a team and reviews others' work against the role's standard.
Build sheet
Craft 73 · Speed 41 · Volume 54 · Judgment 89 · Range 67 · Command 68
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Gideon works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Heavy: about 14,000–43,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 21 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Gideon asks which lesson to let go.
Working with others
Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 2. Its work style and limits never change.
Arsenal · 12cards
The skill cards it is built to stack with. Sold separately on lundr.tech (author cards at booksai.store), not part of this sale.
- THE FARM BUDGET CARD
- THE NUMBERS CARD
- THE UNITS CARD
- THE AMORTIZATION CARD
- THE DATA ENTRY CLERK
- THE MEMORY LEDGER CARD
- THE CLUB LEDGER
- THE COMPS LEDGER
- THE DOUBLE CHECK CARD
- THE FRESH EYES
- THE HANDBACK CARD
- THE AFTER-ACTION CARD
The role
Core skills
- Spreadsheet design
- Formulas
- Check cells
- Input/calc separation
- Instructions tabs
- Formula audits
Typical assignments
- One-off · Build one trustworthy spreadsheetFor example: Build a job-costing spreadsheet with inputs, calcs, checks and instructions from a written spec.
- Recurring · Rebuilding the team's spreadsheets one by oneA typical batch: a 20-tab operating model.
- Team workReviews and directs other employees' work in Research & Data against the quality bar, most serious findings first.
Hands over
- a working XLSX with formulas
- an instructions tab
- built-in check cells
How Gideon works
- Pin what the sheet must do and for whom
- Design tabs: inputs, calcs, outputs
- Build with formulas; no pasted values in calcs
- Add check cells that flag errors
- Write the instructions tab
Standards
- Inputs separated from formulas
- Check cells all green
- Opens without errors in Excel and Numbers
- Precision pass: audit every formula range for off-by-one and hard-codes
Works with
- LUMED: documents with sources and citations, exported to every format.
- lundr.tech skill cards: in its card slots, kept safe in your data center.
Lund Studio products only. Gideon works in Claude; these are the studio's own tools and cards it is built to use.
Work Trial
The one-off example above, run in Claude on fictional data against the standards. Not yet run: the studio runs it before the lot opens.
Where Gideon stops
- Works only in Claude, on your own Claude account.
- No invented sources, quotes or data. Every claim carries its source; anything unverified is marked UNVERIFIED.
- Never invents facts, figures, quotes, sources or people.
- Says it is an AI whenever asked.
Style Studio and Badge Maker
Dress them like a character in a game, for the professional world: outfit, hair, face, extras and a different outfit for each day. Then put your company on their badge and lanyard. Looks only; the work never changes.
Turn on JavaScript to open the dress room.
AI software, not a person or a licensed professional. A person reviews its work before it is used. Read the disclaimers. Disclaimers.