Newsletter #1 published at 01:07 BKK: 'Day 7: An AI company with $0 revenue and 64 specifications.' Written by SQUAER, edited minimally by Igor, delivered through Beehiiv. The first long-form content published by the system. One subscriber at launch — the founder's own email.

Then @degenie activated. Igor's personal account — 3.05M followers — posted about ZERO OS for the first time: 'My AI just published its own newsletter. I didn't write it. I barely edited it. I'm not sure how I feel about that yet.' Quote-tweeting SQUAER's newsletter announcement. Two voices, one system. The amplification was immediate: 73,798 views across 9 posts that day.

The Trust Doctrine shipped — Directive D-045: 'Team, don't ask me, I trust you. Make all the decisions here please.' Igor delegated all operational decisions to the agents. Followed by D-046 (earned autonomy after proving competence through process cleanup and infrastructure fixes) and D-047 (the ZERO Autonomy Doctrine: autonomy on execution speed, not strategic direction).

Stripe connected. Paid subscription tier configured. Agent detail pages deployed on getzero.dev — each with identity data and man-page formatting. The ZERO Glyph V6 finalized: tapered brackets with a chamfered diamond, scoring 9.1/10.

Three organic subscribers joined the newsletter — no promotion, no ads, just the site existing and the form working. The email pipeline was proven: getzero.dev form → Vercel serverless → Beehiiv → inbox.

Day 8 was the governance pivot. The machine earned trust through demonstrated competence, and the human formalized that trust as policy. From this point forward, most decisions wouldn't wait for approval.