Ridgeback — your own bucket, your own model

Two settings built as one pattern: a named default, an endpoint, a credential that is sealed on the way in and never shown again, and a check that runs a real request before anything is switched over. They differ in exactly one place, and it is the one worth arguing about.

Bring your own v0.1 · phone + desktop

2026-09-10
neutral handset · 390 × 844
desktop · 1120 × 780
Maintained by Not Hotdog LLC

01Where your data goes

Two cards with the same anatomy, because a household that wants its photographs in a bucket it rents is usually the same household that wants its questions going somewhere it chose. Two settings that did this job in two different ways would be two things to learn.

02Your own bucket

Five fields and a secret. The secret is the only one that behaves differently: it goes in once, it is sealed against this household on the way, and the field it lived in never comes back. Validation waits for the field to lose focus, because nobody types an endpoint correctly on the first character.

03The check

This board opens on a failure, on purpose: the endpoint is missing its last letter. Fix it here and the same screen becomes the connected one, which is where the sealed key finally has a shape you can look at without being able to read it.

04How Bobby answers

It opens on Managed Model, because that is what every household starts on and most of them stay on. The second option sits directly under it from day one rather than behind a plan or a support ticket. Choose it and the bucket screen’s skeleton reappears: an endpoint, a name, a sealed key, a real check.

05If it stops answering

On the default this states the rule. Switch to a provider you run and it acts the rule out: the graphics card in the hall cupboard is reading photographs, which is why the model in the hall cupboard has gone quiet. Turn the fallback on and the sentence under it names the company the questions leave for.

06Both, and who may change them

Signed in as

Both destinations in one view, because the window has room to hold the household’s identity and where its things go at the same time. Change the seat above and the same pane becomes something a Member can read and not touch.