FIXER Sim — a sim-to-real research program for the Bay Area film industry

Modelled It is a bounded two-model-day experiment that started at model time 30 October 2026, 06:00 PT. Model time runs faster than the clock on your wall; when the two days are used up, the last state stays on screen. Earlier moments are kept as read-only history.

Sourced Public studios, stages and rental houses anchor the map as addresses only, with road geometry from OSRM. A place on the map is not a partner, a customer or a stock list. There is no live traffic feed: nothing moves that the model did not compute, so at a quiet moment you will see people resting and nobody travelling. That is the honest state, not a broken page.

Measured None of it. The counts on the map are not bookings, customers or revenue, and the model is not proof of continuous operation, not a validated forecasting engine and not evidence that FIXER improves production outcomes. If the model's server is unreachable, the map says so and shows no movement.

Model time Saturday 31 October 2026, 10:30 to 11:45 PT, read from world 99b39cea at revision 44 (model time Sunday 1 November 2026, 01:00 PT); the case reads the same at revision 30. A synthetic commercial shoot at a rental house in Cupertino needed a camera and a lens with a declared value of $50,000 brought over from a content studio in San Jose before its prelight could start, inside a three-hour request window. For the lens the model checked all 192 synthetic people and could assign none: 108 hold documents whose tier does not cover a declared value that high, 32 have only a commute vehicle (motorcycle or pickup) that the model does not accept for deliveries, 32 hold a role the city does not dispatch, 12 have expired documents and 8 have not completed identity, so the request closed as "search exhausted" with no one assigned. For the camera one eligible person was found (Person 005, a cargo van, a 21-minute detour, next commitment checked), but the model refused the request by rule because the fictional rental release had not been confirmed. With both inputs declined, the prelight step failed at 11:45 and the shoot, ingest, edit, review, revision and delivery steps were blocked behind it; the project ended as "required service unavailable", with no delay or saving attributed, because the model has no matched alternative to compare against. The case feeds the model's own question, whether an eligible person can meet a project's need inside its window without breaking another commitment, and here the binding constraint was documents and declared value, not travel time. One case is one trajectory under declared assumptions, not a finding; nothing in it happened to a real business or person.