Autonomous worker runtimes
Named workers take leased work, leave receipts, and stop when the grant says stop.
TheCriners LLC
Building autonomous businesses and the infrastructure that lets them operate safely.
We design systems that can work while we sleep — and the grants, receipts, and boundaries that keep those systems from doing work they were never given.
The ecosystem
One company. Shared infrastructure. Distinct public faces.
The portfolio is the proof. Each project below is a brand of TheCriners LLC, not a second LLC.
TheCriners LLCOne legal company · Coshocton, Ohio
Executive / Shared ServicesPortfolio direction, operations, cash watch, legal, growth, customer support — rank is not a grant
Company OSIsolation, ALLOW / HOLD / DENY, receipts, recovery, owner approval
These are operating projects of TheCriners LLC. They are not separate legal entities. Each has its own public hostname so customers can tell them apart. New companies are created only by the owner.
What we actually build
Technology you can inspect, not a slogan about AI.
Tenant isolation
Each company keeps its own directory, database, secret file, and hostname. Opening the wrong store fails closed.
Signed inter-company messaging
Companies talk over signed envelopes. The parent does not open a child’s private store to “just check.”
AI customer support
A public agent that can identify the product and open a case — and that is forbidden from quoting cash, PIDs, or private consoles.
Executive coordination
Supervised briefs for operations, cash, incidents, and funnel. Rank is not a grant.
Capability and grant enforcement
ALLOW runs. HOLD waits for an owner. DENY refuses. Defaults fail closed on the dangerous actions.
Receipts and auditability
Work that completes writes evidence. Completing already-done work is refused.
Recovery and supervised services
Backup without secrets. Restore that cannot sneak a vault into place. Units that stay on loopback.
Public / private boundary
Customer sites are public. Operator dashboards are not. That line is a product decision, not an afterthought.
Company OS
The reusable authority layer. Open source, Security Model 1.2.0, discovery release 0.5.0-rc1.
Portfolio
Working projects, with honest status.
We do not invent customers, product-market fit, or revenue we did not collect. Checkout is live only where we say it is.
Company OS
Authority for self-hosted agents: isolation, grants, receipts, recovery.
Public 0.5.0-rc1
Explore →
Money Hunter
Small lawful jobs from public data: CSV cleanup, site review, PDF extract.
Public storefront live
Visit storefront →
Packet Press
Structured briefs from government packets already posted in public.
Public site live
Read Packet Press →
Pullsheet
Up to 25 inventory lines checked against official U.S. recall records.
Offer ready · checkout not live
See Pullsheet →
Hearthlabel
A Nutrition Facts draft from a recipe using USDA FoodData Central.
Public site · checkout not live
See Hearthlabel →
Seatpack
Seating chart and place cards from a guest CSV, up to 80 names.
Public site · checkout not live
See Seatpack →
The person
Chris Criner
Twenty-five years running operations and technology — contact centers, CRM migrations, automation, and the unglamorous work of keeping a floor running. Owner of TheCriners LLC. Still writing the software.
