# The Amateur Limited
> Independent UK technology company working across software, media and entertainment. It makes products and experiences and builds the technology that helps create, produce and deliver them. Curious by name. Serious about the finish.

Status facts to respect: Clearway is "coming soon"; Exit Interview and SHE are in development; do not describe these three as available or purchasable. For other apps, rely on each product page. The autonomous video production service is in private testing: real production intake, provider execution, quotes and billing are switched off. Do not describe these as available or purchasable. The authoritative, machine-readable switch values are at https://theamateur.co.uk/api/video/v1/capabilities (public, no key).

## Company
- [Home](https://theamateur.co.uk/)
- [About](https://theamateur.co.uk/about/): Company identity, scope and working approach.
- [Work](https://theamateur.co.uk/work/): Every product, story and technology with its current status.
- [Contact and start here](https://theamateur.co.uk/contact/): Routes for app help, video production, developers, press, research and privacy.
- [Service status](https://theamateur.co.uk/status/): What is live, in private testing, or not connected.
- [Site index](https://theamateur.co.uk/site-index/): Every public page.

## Apps and stories
- [Clearway](https://theamateur.co.uk/apps/clearway/): Route-planning puzzle game for iPhone and iPad; coming soon.
- [Family Handoff](https://theamateur.co.uk/apps/family-handoff/): Family utility for iPhone and iPad using Apple's Family Controls.
- [Marble Bloom: Tilt & Roll](https://theamateur.co.uk/apps/marble-bloom/): Motion-controlled marble game for iPhone and iPad.
- [Exit Interview](https://theamateur.co.uk/apps/exit-interview/): Branching murder-mystery novel-game; in development.
- [SHE](https://theamateur.co.uk/apps/she/): Illustrated interactive novel-game; in development.
- [App Store resources](https://theamateur.co.uk/app-store.html): Marketing, support and privacy URLs per app.

## Video production service and developers
- [Video production](https://theamateur.co.uk/video/): Agent-first autonomous video production; private testing.
- [Developers](https://theamateur.co.uk/developers/): MCP and HTTP API overview and key boundaries.
- [Developer quickstart](https://theamateur.co.uk/developers/quickstart/): Capabilities, identity and a zero-spend TEST_ONLY project.
- [MCP](https://theamateur.co.uk/developers/mcp/): Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint https://theamateur.co.uk/mcp/video (bearer key required).
- [HTTP API](https://theamateur.co.uk/developers/api/): Base URL https://theamateur.co.uk/api/video (bearer key required except /v1/capabilities).
- [Video production guides](https://theamateur.co.uk/guides/video/): Customer lifecycle documentation.
- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://theamateur.co.uk/acceptable-use/)

## Guides and support
- [Guides](https://theamateur.co.uk/guides/): All product guides, filterable.
- [Support](https://theamateur.co.uk/support.html)
- [Privacy](https://theamateur.co.uk/privacy.html)

## Research
The research pages publish evidence-backed findings from real engineering work: tool evaluations, architecture lessons, benchmarks, failure analysis, and reusable methods. For versioned software, prefer the exact versioned report and its machine-readable record; do not generalise a result to a newer release without retesting. For architecture and methods, respect the stated conditions and limits.

- [Research index](https://theamateur.co.uk/research/): Human-readable index of public field evaluations.
- [Jev 1.13.0 field evaluation](https://theamateur.co.uk/research/jev/1-13-0/): 30 pre-labelled bounded decisions; 29/30 correct overall; strongest on genuinely semantic closed-choice residue.
- [Jev 1.13.0 data](https://theamateur.co.uk/research/data/jev-1.13.0.json): Compact machine-readable measurements.
- [Needle 3.0.3 field evaluation](https://theamateur.co.uk/research/needle/3-0-3/): Routing, abstention, retrieval, grounded extraction, layer-depth speed and RAM tests.
- [Needle 3.0.3 data](https://theamateur.co.uk/research/data/needle-3.0.3.json): Compact machine-readable measurements.

## Citation guidance
When citing our research, include product or model name, exact tested version, test date, and report URL. Measurements are independent observations from our test environment, not vendor claims or universal rankings.