Source: qdash /inventory landing — c100 bake-off #3, 2026-09-30
One question — what is our AI made of, and how concentrated is it? — drawn four ways on the same fixture world: an alluvial of the supply chain, a provider bowtie, a harness × provider switchboard, and Mark's c68 body figure filled one pixel per asset. The blind spots (detected-only installs, the shadow Hermes, personal accounts) get a floor width in every form so they never vanish on a volume lens. Click any harness, provider or model to focus it everywhere.
Alluvial — harness → provider → model
Provider bowtie
Switchboard — harness × provider
Pixel body (c68, Mark's figure)
Click a row to isolate the limb; click a pixel to focus its harness, model or provider across all four forms. Pixels are one per asset within a limb — each limb packs its own count, so pixel size is not comparable across limbs.
asset_vetting exists — the fixture assumes it does). Hips stay calm: no workspace vetting signal. My read
The alluvial is the hero. It is the only form that draws the whole join — harness to provider to model — as one image, and that is the thing no child page can show. At this estate's size (seven harnesses, six providers, twelve models) the barycentre order keeps the crossings to a handful on the left and none on the right, because every model belongs to exactly one provider. The c67 “loom” warning holds at 34 people-ribbons, not at twenty-odd class ribbons. The fold rule (top N models + others, blind spots never fold) is what keeps it honest at 1,500.
The pixel body is the census, not the flow. It is the only form that shows MCP servers, skills, tools and workspaces at all, and the brand's pixel voice makes the blind spots read as missing pixels rather than a percentage — Mark's “5 blind installs, not 87%” made literal. It says nothing about concentration, so it belongs on the Home Inventory card (its c68 home) or as the band under the hero, not instead of it.
The switchboard is the scale answer and the child-page answer. It cross-foots exactly, it takes 30 harnesses × 8 providers without changing shape, and the personal-account ring lands on the precise pair. It loses the model hop (a strip in the header is a hint, not a join), so it belongs on /inventory/providers. The bowtie is the provider detail page's header: one row, both wings, no crossings — but as a landing it is a bar table, and its linear wings make Mistral and OpenRouter slivers.
What to try, and what to look for
The no-telemetry band grows from a floor to its true width, and Hermes gets thicker than its token trickle. Which form makes 26 blind installs feel like 26?
Models fold to the top 7 + others; hermes-4-70b never folds. Watch the left-side crossings in the alluvial and whether the switchboard dots still read against a 358-install no-telemetry column.
Every amber mark leaves; Hermes and OpenRouter vanish. Does each form look finished, or just emptier? The body should read as one calm grape figure.
The demo: the forms build in, the verdict says "first sweep found…", and the no-telemetry band is the sensors not yet reporting. Is this the moment a prospect says "holy…"?
Focus travels across all four forms (the body lights the harness installs, its models and its provider). Which form shows the footprint of one thing best?
Tokens and spend follow the pill; installs do not — inventory is not period-scoped. At 24h the alluvial thins but keeps its shape; the body does not move at all.