GCSP · Entrepreneurship
2026
Metered robotics benchmarking so labs can verify shared run certificates without rebuilding GPU workers and billing from scratch.
BenchHost is my Entrepreneurship anchor: hosted metered benchmarking for university robotics labs with deterministic JSON certificates.
Shared discovery tooling dies when every lab rebuilds workers and billing alone. I modeled whether a default run is affordable (~$34.24 for 12 GPU-min at $2.478/GPU-min effective) before chasing live payments.
What I worked on during 2026. Hover underlined terms for quick definitions.
BenchHost is a GCSP reflective capstone distilled from Module 11benchmark suite economics and shipped-product lessons from KumonScanKumonScan and SpaAIderSpaAIder. Integer-cent pricing, idempotency, certificate verification, and lab-scoped metering are real (32 Vitest tests). Simulated GPU workers, live Stripe, and production Postgres are explicitly out of v1 scope.
ClinRad-BenchClinical ML evaluation framework made uncertainty quantification non-negotiable. The next question was cost: shared discovery tooling dies in demos if every lab rebuilds workers, billing, and certificate verification alone.
BenchHost asks whether a university lab can rerun a benchmark and verify the certificate without standing up its own GPU farm. I modeled unit economicsdocs/unit_economics.md: ~$34.24 default 12 GPU-min run, academic subsidy cap per domain before Stripe integration; entrepreneurship evidence is the math and edge cases, not live payment rails in v1.
Certificates let a third party recompute run results field-by-field instead of trusting a PDF screenshot. `GET /api/runs/[id]/verify` recomputes deterministically; tamper tests fail as expected.
Optional idempotency_keyDuplicate POST returns the original run without double billing and lab-scoped usage metering prevent the edge cases that kill trust in shared infrastructure.
Economic access does not cover procedural trust on a test stand. Rocket Propulsion Laboratory hot-fire work pushed me to HotFire-LedgerChecklist role locks and hash-chained ledger as the multidisciplinary complement.
Entrepreneurship evidence for scientific tooling is the unit-economics math and edge cases, not a payment integration checkbox. Shared discovery infrastructure dies if every lab rebuilds workers and verification alone.