Team Sonar

Parallax lets a founder step inside a big decision before making it. South African small businesses live or die on payment dates. At the end of Q2 2025, invoices older than 30 days worth R12.4 billion were unpaid by government departments alone (National Treasury data, reported by Engineering News, March 2026). A caterer offered a contract that pays after 60 days cannot easily see what that does to her cash in month four, or how late the client can pay before she cannot pay her staff. You tell Parallax your decision in your own words. Muse Spark reads it and shows the exact words behind every number. A deterministic engine, not a model, works out 36 months of cash for three possible futures. Then you step inside: a photoreal room built for your business, with your possible future self standing in it. She speaks. SAM cut out each object, so the photograph itself is the interface: touch the contract on the counter and the engine's figure is written on its paper. Pull the late-payment lever and the photograph goes dark. Convene the board and a swarm goes to work on a graph you can watch. Muse Wonder dispatches the agents. Each sees only its slice of the decision graph. Cash Forensics searches the engine and finds the line: this plan survives one month late, not two. Market Scout searches the live web, then code opens the page to check the figure is really there. World Builder chooses the scene, Muse Image repaints the room behind her, and Muse Spark rejects the painting if anything legible got in. She tells you what happened, in the first person, from your own story. Agents only propose. Only the founder can change a number. Press Apply, the engine runs again, the lights come back on and the shelves fill. It works for any business. One paragraph from a salon owner in Soweto builds her own room, with a person who can speak, live. Drop a real contract: Spark reads it, SAM finds the clause, and the engine shows what those payment terms do to lowest cash. Leave with a short film of your own future, with engine figures overlaid by code. We measured the central claim, that no model can put a figure in front of a founder. npm run eval sends 450 hostile model replies through the real guards with no API key. On its first run, 219 got through. We fixed the guard. Now none do. JUDGES.md maps each criterion to files and commands, and lists the limits. Built during the event, 27 Oct to 4 Nov: the first code commit is 29 Oct. Sibusiso built the engine, intake, futures and chat. Lethabo built the rooms, the photo world, the swarm's integration, the world builder and the film. Limits: the three paths are templates adapted to the founder's figures. Default costs are labelled estimates. People are fictional and generated. Voices are synthetic: the browser's in the app, en-ZA neural in the video. Not financial or legal advice. One possible future, not a prediction.