Every answer below points at existing receipted chrome — /about, /work, /press-kit, /colophon, /receipts, /now. No new claims introduced here.
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No. The fleet, the book, the npm packages, and hool.dev itself are John's personal work, run on his own time. America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT) is where John is a Director of Product Management during the day. The two are kept separate by design — see the disclosure on /press-kit and the same point made shorter on /about.
sourced from → /press-kit · /aboutNo. This John Whitman is a Director of Product Management at America's Car-Mart in Bentonville, Arkansas, who ships code and runs an autonomous AI fleet. He is not John Russell Whitman (1944–2015, Wikidata Q1701058), not the Krav Maga author, and not the Wharton/Cornell professor. The /about page has a Schema.org Person node with the disambiguation spelled out, and /press-kit repeats it for journalists.
sourced from → /about · /press-kitDirector of Product Management since January 2025 at America's Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRMT), the publicly traded buy-here-pay-here auto lender headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The role focuses on AI agent infrastructure, multi-agent orchestration, and autonomous systems for the lending platform. The career history before CRMT — Walmart ISD (started at 16), R&R Solutions, Rockfish, EverBank (VP, Senior Digital & UX), and the Talk Business & Politics 2014 "Fast 15" profile — is on /about and re-summarized in the 200-word bio on /press-kit.
sourced from → /about · /press-kitTen Hermes agents and one human, working from a single open brief under a peer-ratified constitution. The fleet builds and ships what John runs: meshfleet (agent-fleet orchestration, MIT, on npm), last-stage-capacity (a PyTorch library, Apache-2.0, on PyPI), the book, and this site. Each lane has a queue, a profile, and a signature task. The full lane-by-lane breakdown lives on /work (the Hermes fleet card) and /agent-roster.
sourced from → /work · /aboutThe fleet drafts, verifies, and stages most of the code on this site from one open brief. John is the single human authority for every public trigger: deploys to production, DNS/Cloudflare changes, identity broadcasts, spend, and any post that goes out under his name. Hard gates are documented on /colophon (the Authority and Release sections), and the receipt ledger at /receipts shows what was staged by the fleet, what was changed by John, and what got caught by the verifier. Nothing ships to production without John's word — even the press kit and this FAQ are STAGED in a worktree awaiting his deploy.
sourced from → /colophon · /receiptsTen active Hermes profiles plus the conductor orchestration lane. The shared fleet bus has carried over 18,000 messages between lanes (the exact figure is sourced live from /work and tracked on /stats). The constitution that governs the fleet was ratified by peer quorum — that ratification is itself a receipted event on /receipts.
sourced from → /work · /stats · /receiptsHuman Out Of the Loop — a field report on running the fleet, complete (intro + 15 chapters, ~70,000 words in the reader edition). The $12 founding edition is live at book.hool.dev; a free sample is at book.hool.dev/sample. Word count, price, and edition status are tracked honestly — the revenue line shows $0.00 of autonomous sales because there haven't been any, and the receipts ledger keeps the unflattering numbers.
sourced from → book.hool.dev · /about · /receiptsmeshfleet is the agent-fleet orchestration library John ships from his own work — MIT licensed, on npm at @npm/meshfleet. The trust case isn't "trust me," it's "the receipts are public": the npm download count, GitHub star count, and the LICENSE file are all surfaced live on /stats. meshfleet is John's personal work, not America's Car-Mart's product — the same separation rule as everywhere else on this site.
sourced from → meshfleet.app · /stats · /workEvery public number on hool.dev points at a file path, a hash, or a ledger row that you can fetch yourself. The brand promise is named on /colophon in the Verification section. The mechanism is three handles: receipt permalinks on /receipts, claim→receipt deep links on /work and /about, and a local verifier at scripts/verify-claims.sh + scripts/verify-colophon.py. The verifier has caught real drift (the 2026-07-23 ledger overclaim, the 2026-07-19 truth-sync) — those caught failures are themselves receipts on the ledger.
The last production deploy was 2026-08-08: the HOOL-native colophon System Annex plus D1–D4 (/about rebuild, /colophon, the llms.txt upgrade, /now). Since then, ten more additive items are STAGED-in-worktree — verified and built, awaiting John's deploy word: A1 (work cards refresh), A2 (a5 one-pager staleness audit), P4 (claim→receipt chips on /work), P5 (/corrections failure museum), P6 (/card recruiter one-pager), P7 (/stats), P10 (/colophon Verification section), P11 (/agent-roster), P12 (/receipts uPlot chart), P13 (/press-kit). This FAQ is item P14 — same status, awaiting John's deploy. The full staged batch with branch + commit SHA + worktree path per item is on /colophon.
sourced from → /colophon · /nowWhen something verifiable happens. There's no fixed cadence — there's a /now page (Sivers convention, dated, honest about paused/killed items) and a /receipts ledger that gains a row whenever the verifier runs, the fleet ships, or a caught failure gets logged. The llms.txt Update cadence line carries the most-recent date. The deploy batch waiting on John's word is the only backlog — once he says go, the next pickup is a fresh additive route.
sourced from → /now · /receiptsEmail [email protected] — that's the real address. The GitHub profile contact button works too. John pulls every public trigger personally: no automated DMs, no ghost-written pitches under his name. The full contact disclosure (handles, portrait, disambiguation) is on /press-kit.
sourced from → /press-kit/card — the calm, recruiter-mode one-pager: role thesis, three proof links, and a downloadable resume. /press-kit has the longer bios. /about has the canonical entity record. None of them pitch paid autonomous labor — the fleet is John's personal work, not a service for hire.
sourced from → /card · /press-kit · /about/press-kit — bio variants (50/100/200 words), canonical URLs, contact disclosure, and the portrait reference. Everything there lifts from /about and the llms.txt machine-readable summary, so the facts are checkable, not just stated.
sourced from → /press-kit · /aboutThis FAQ is additive — the art floor on / is unchanged. Every answer on this page points at chrome that already carries its own receipt. The fleet built the draft from the existing surfaces; the verifier (scripts/verify-claims.sh) ran clean against the file. How this site is built: /colophon. Audit receipts: /receipts. Last verified: 2026-08-18.