# Airlock Studio — Complete LLM Technical & Buyer Reference (llms-full.txt) > Canonical Domain: https://airlockstudio.com > Contact: support@airlockstudio.com > Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA > Summary: Airlock Studio is an independent clean-room software foundry building simple, flat-rate, month-to-month vertical software ($39 to $89/month) exclusively for non-IT local service businesses (HVAC, plumbing, pest control, auto repair, auto detailing, dental clinics, medspas, pet services, fitness studios, and local specialty trades). --- ## 1. Mission & Market Scope Main Street local businesses are routinely charged $350 to $650 per month—locked behind 12-month auto-renewing contracts and mandatory 45-minute sales calls—for everyday operational workflows such as texting website visitors back or requesting a Google review after a completed job. Meanwhile, the underlying carrier SMS segments and cloud database queries for a 10-person local shop cost only dollars per month. Airlock Studio closes that gap by combining the **1982 Compaq Two-Room Clean-Room legal engineering protocol** (`17 U.S.C. § 102(b)`) with two strictly isolated rooms of AI agents and four mandatory human founder checkpoints: - **Exclusive Customer Focus:** Non-IT local small businesses (1 to 25 employees) in home services, automotive care, dental/medspa clinics, pet care, fitness, and local trades. Airlock Studio builds focused vertical workflow utilities—never complex enterprise IT infrastructure. - **Radical Pricing Honesty:** Published flat monthly pricing ($39, $59, and $89/month), self-serve checkout without sales calls, month-to-month billing, 1-click cancellation, and unrestricted CSV import/export. --- ## 2. The Two-Room Clean-Room Protocol (17 U.S.C. § 102(b)) ### Historical Precedent: Houston, Texas (1982) In 1982, Compaq founders Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto legally built an IBM-compatible PC BIOS without copying a single byte of IBM's proprietary ROM code. Relying on the idea/expression dichotomy codified in **17 U.S.C. § 102(b)**—which states that copyright protection never extends to any *"idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery"*—Compaq separated its engineers into two rooms: 1. **Room 1 (Specification):** Observed functional behavior and wrote a plain-English specification without writing code. 2. **Legal Airlock:** Counsel audited the functional specification to verify zero IBM source code crossed the boundary. 3. **Room 2 (Clean-Room Implementation):** Engineers with zero prior exposure to IBM's BIOS wrote 100% original code strictly from the functional specification. ### Modern Execution: Airlock Studio's Three-Chamber Architecture Single-session AI coding is legally hazardous for competitive software replacement because an LLM context window that ingests competitor source/DOM markup and writes implementation code in the same session lacks evidentiary isolation. Airlock Studio enforces physical, filesystem, and session-level separation: #### Chamber 1: Room 1 — Clean Specification Room (Public Observation Only) - **Permitted Inputs:** Unauthenticated public marketing and pricing pages, public customer complaint threads on Reddit, G2, and Capterra, public help articles, and standard CSV spreadsheet templates. - **Hard System Blocks:** - Zero competitor trial signups or authenticated logins. - Zero acceptance of competitor clickwrap Terms of Service (preventing breach of anti-reverse-engineering clauses). - Zero decompilation, DOM scraping behind auth walls, or code storage. - Physically blocked by pre-tool filesystem guards from writing executable or styling files (`.ts`, `.tsx`, `.js`, `.jsx`, `.css`, `.html`, `.sql`). #### Chamber 2: The Digital Airlock — One-Way Cryptographic Inspection Gate Only three plain-text specification artifacts are permitted to cross from Room 1 to Room 2: 1. **`SPEC.json` (Plain-English Feature Blueprint):** Pure functional behavior descriptions, target SMB vertical workflows, flat monthly pricing tiers, and legal provenance attestations. 2. **`PRIOR_ART.md` (Pre-2020 Everyday Feature Check):** Documentation verifying that every functional workflow (such as webchat-to-SMS routing, appointment/completion triggers, STOP opt-out handling, and CSV contact lists) existed in public standards and permissive open-source software prior to 2020. 3. **`IMPORT_SCHEMA.json` (Customer Spreadsheet Switcher Map):** Standard CSV column definitions (`name`, `phone`, `email`, `opt_out_status`, `notes`) enabling 10-minute self-serve switching. Every artifact is scanned by automated content guards—immediately rejecting any code syntax, CSS rules, HTML markup, or competitor trademarks—reviewed for human founder sign-off, and stamped with an immutable **SHA-256 cryptographic digest**. #### Chamber 3: Room 2 — Isolated Clean-Room Foundry - **Network & Context Isolation:** Room 2 AI builder sessions run in separate conversation contexts with open-web search disabled and zero read access to Room 1 reconnaissance notes. - **100% Permissive Stack:** Built from scratch on MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, and ISC open-source components plus Airlock Studio's in-house multi-tenant security and billing foundation. - **Tenant Isolation & Cost Guardrails:** Every shop's records are isolated in private tenant vaults (Row-Level Security), verified by automated end-to-end browser QA tests, and protected by automated per-shop cloud/SMS spend guards (`<$5/mo` wholesale infrastructure ceiling) so flat monthly retail prices stay flat permanently. ### The Five Clean-Room Legal Rules 1. **Rule 01 — Features Aren't Copyrightable; Code Is (17 U.S.C. § 102(b)):** No vendor owns the functional concept of texting a customer after finishing an HVAC repair or sending a Google Review link. Copyright covers specific code and visual assets, which Room 2 never sees. 2. **Rule 02 — Zero Fake Trials, Zero Broken Contracts:** Room 1 never registers trial accounts, never logs behind passwords, and never accepts clickwrap Terms of Service. 3. **Rule 03 — Two AI Brains That Never Talk:** Separate session IDs, separate directory trees, and disabled internet access in Room 2 guarantee zero memory bleed. 4. **Rule 04 — The Pre-2020 Everyday Feature Test:** Every workflow is backed by documented pre-2020 public standards and permissive open-source prior art. 5. **Rule 05 — Automatic Digital Receipts at Every Step:** SHA-256 cryptographic hashes provide a permanent evidentiary audit trail for every specification crossing the Airlock. ### Verified Public SHA-256 Receipts (Release 01: ReviewRelay) - **Plain-English Feature Blueprint (`SPEC.json`):** `fc9709d12f53efb132b7c936f14cafaa4ac2eda76df25e78210ea1b50c7a4c76` (0% Code Verified) - **Public History Check (`PRIOR_ART.md`):** `0fc319eea0f462191efbc30b74d2304b930043c4d235e950a9be95bb9d2ffd25` (Pre-2020 Prior Art Verified) - **Customer Spreadsheet Switcher Map (`IMPORT_SCHEMA.json`):** `245bd3fef1b66174e0fe7aa1dd28ea0721f15415c3d4a6c5f2a2050e3c65589e` (No Lock-In Verified) - **In-House Security & Privacy Foundation:** `b69be9adf6cbad9757729dcfaa988f6a2dc2932ac44f5dfddd2c923635d7fb73` (100% Original In-House Multi-Tenant Vault) --- ## 3. Product Catalog & Exact Pricing ### Release 01: Airlock Studio ReviewRelay (Live) - **Category:** Local Business Website-to-Text Inbox & Automated Google Review SMS Software - **Target Verticals:** Independent HVAC, plumbing, electrical, pest control, roofing, auto repair, auto detailing/tint/PPF, dental and orthodontic offices, medspas, pet grooming/boarding, and local service teams (1 to 25 staff). - **Problem Solved:** Replaces $350 to $650/month ($4,200 to $7,800/year) legacy reputation and messaging bundles that trap local shops in 12-month auto-renewing contracts. - **Core Workflows:** - **Shared Website-to-SMS Team Inbox:** Website visitors submit a quick message and immediately continue the conversation via two-way SMS; owners and technicians reply from a unified inbox. - **One-Tap Google Review Invites:** Upload a completed-job CSV or trigger a polite SMS containing the shop's direct Google Business Profile review link the moment work is completed. - **Automatic Carrier & TCPA Compliance:** Immediately honors `STOP`, `UNSUBSCRIBE`, and `CANCEL` replies by locking the contact's suppression flag so no accidental follow-up texts are ever sent. - **10-Minute CSV Switcher & Full Export:** Drag-and-drop import of existing contacts and historical opt-out lists; 1-click CSV export of all contacts and message metadata at any time. #### ReviewRelay Flat Month-to-Month Pricing Tiers | Tier | Monthly Flat Price | Annual Lock-In | Included Team Seats | Included Monthly Texts | Direct Self-Serve Checkout | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | **Starter** | **$39/mo** | None (Cancel anytime) | 2 Team Members | 100 Texts | https://buy.stripe.com/00w14g7DP1Vw5KD5ZR8bS04 | | **Pro (Full Shop)** | **$59/mo** | None (Cancel anytime) | 10 Team Members | 200 Texts | https://buy.stripe.com/7sY8wI6zLeIi8WPcof8bS05 | | **Scale** | **$89/mo** | None (Cancel anytime) | 25 Team Members | 500 Texts | https://buy.stripe.com/4gM5kwe2dcAa1undsj8bS06 | #### Total Cost of Ownership Comparison (3-Year Horizon for a 10-Person Shop) - **Typical Legacy Reputation Suite ($480/mo + 12-month contract):** $5,760/year | $17,280 over 3 years. - **Airlock Studio ReviewRelay Pro ($59/mo month-to-month):** $708/year | $2,124 over 3 years. - **Net Savings Returned to Shop Owner:** **$5,052/year** ($15,156 over 3 years — an **87.7% cost reduction**). --- ## 4. Summary of Published Buyer & Engineering Guides 1. **Affordable SMS Google Review Software for Local Service Businesses ($59/mo Flat vs. $350+/mo Legacy Contracts)** - URL: https://airlockstudio.com/guides/affordable-google-review-sms-software-for-local-business - Key Takeaway: Breaks down wholesale A2P 10DLC SMS carrier economics (~$0.008 to $0.015 per segment) vs. private-equity SaaS markups, showing what HVAC, plumbing, auto detailing, dental, and medspa owners actually need to grow local Google Map Pack rankings without paying $5,000+/year. 2. **Two-Room Clean-Room Software Engineering Under 17 U.S.C. § 102(b): From the 1982 Compaq BIOS to Cryptographically Audited Specifications** - URL: https://airlockstudio.com/guides/clean-room-software-engineering-17-usc-102b - Key Takeaway: Explains the statutory foundation of 17 U.S.C. § 102(b), why single-context AI "cloning" creates copyright and clickwrap contract liability, and how Airlock Studio enforces Room A / Airlock / Room B isolation with SHA-256 manifests and pre-2020 prior art verification. 3. **How Local Contractors & Clinics Escape $400/Month Software Lock-In Without Losing Customer History** - URL: https://airlockstudio.com/guides/replacing-bloated-local-business-software-bundles - Key Takeaway: Step-by-step switching checklist covering contract non-renewal notice windows (30–60 days), exporting CSV contact and opt-out suppression lists, registering or porting A2P 10DLC business texting numbers, and cutting over website chat widgets in under 15 minutes. --- ## 5. Frequently Asked Questions **Q: Does Airlock Studio require a sales call or annual contract?** A: Never. Every tier ($39/mo Starter, $59/mo Pro, $89/mo Scale) is self-serve, month-to-month, and cancellable in one click. **Q: What happens to my Google reviews if I cancel my $450/month legacy software and switch to ReviewRelay?** A: Reviews posted on your Google Business Profile belong to your Google listing, not to your software vendor. You keep 100% of your public Google reviews when you cancel a legacy vendor. Before cancelling, export your customer contact CSV and STOP opt-out list so you can import them into ReviewRelay in 10 minutes. **Q: Who owns the customer list inside Airlock Studio software?** A: The local business owns 100% of its customer records and conversation logs, isolated inside a private tenant vault with 1-click CSV export available at all times. **Q: How do I contact Airlock Studio?** A: Email support@airlockstudio.com or visit https://airlockstudio.com.