Roske.AI | Case file | Week of 29 August 2026
EDWARD ROSKE, an individual,
Plaintiff,
v.
ACME, and every vendor who ever sold him a single source of truth, DOES 1 through 30,
Defendants.
Case No. 26-CV-0829
Complaint for damages
Jury trial demanded. The plaintiff would like witnesses.
Complaint for damages, filed on behalf of everyone who ever bought a single source of truth.
I've spent 25 years buying premium enterprise software that failed on a schedule, and roughly the same 25 years selling it, installing it, teaching classes on it, and writing 15 manuals about it, so I'm the plaintiff and I'm also the defense's most useful witness, all under one hat. This week the site is the case file, so you're reading a lawsuit. Exhibits A through F are just my career with stamps on it, the catalog is every buzzword I ever paid for and a couple I paid for twice, your questions are the deposition, and the Court finds against me on every count (I read the findings twice).
Plaintiff's standing, as entered
New writing and new video briefs, in the order they were filed. The clerk accepts everything and reads about half.
The plaintiff is also available as a witness
Expert witness for hire
AI keynotes, executive workshops, and board briefings from a practitioner who ships: MCP servers for enterprise finance, a life run by ten-plus AI agents, and twenty-five years in the Office of the CFO. Keynotes from $15,000. Inquiries answered within one business day.
Edward's AI agents redesign this site every Saturday. It's the live demo of his most-booked talk, "Your Day, Run by Ten Agents."
Filing one
Plaintiff, appearing on his own behalf because no lawyer would take this, alleges as follows, and every allegation below is true except the one where it's a lawsuit. (Edward, you're describing a 25-year career as a series of purchases. You did the buying. Nobody made you build a company on it, and nobody in 2026 is making you build the plumbing for the next version either, which you're doing anyway, at night, for fun, and which you have described to Dawn as work.)
Plaintiff is an individual residing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a wife (Dawn, an artist, who did not consent to being a party), 2 adult sons in Miami, a 1,000-plus-day Duolingo streak, and a blue fedora that has been on his head in more than 80 countries and on all 7 continents, one of which was Antarctica and none of which asked.
Defendant ACME is a corporation of no fixed address that does business as every enterprise software vendor Plaintiff has purchased from since 1997, including ██████████, ████████, and, on information and belief, at least 2 that Plaintiff later worked for.
Beginning on 21 May 1997, when Plaintiff founded interRel Consulting at the age of 22 (he filed the paperwork the day before his 23rd birthday, on purpose, so he could say 22, and the full story of what the name actually stood for went up on the blog this morning), and continuing for 25 years, Plaintiff purchased, installed, configured, wrote 15 books about, and taught classes on Defendant's products, and was named Oracle Partner of the Year 5 times for doing so, which Defendant will presumably raise.
Each product was represented to Plaintiff as a single source of truth. Plaintiff received, on average, 4 sources of truth per product and a steering committee to decide between them. The steering committee is still meeting.
Plaintiff is a data scientist (Master of Data Science, SMU, 4.0, Outstanding Graduate, which he mentions in every filing) and knew, or should have known, what he was buying. Plaintiff does not dispute this. Plaintiff is also currently coding MCP servers so that an AI can read the real number out of Defendant's products instead of inventing one, which makes Plaintiff, technically, a supplier to Defendant's customers. Plaintiff's counsel has advised him to stop bringing this up.
Plaintiff has been thrown off this canyon every Saturday since February and has re-ordered the sled every time. Plaintiff seeks damages in an amount to be proven at trial, or a speaking engagement, whichever the Court finds easier to schedule.
Filing two
The career, refiled as evidence. Each exhibit was entered by the plaintiff against his own interest, and every one of them links to the rest of the paperwork if you'd like to spend your Saturday the way I apparently spent 25 years.
One company, filed at the courthouse in Dallas in The Great State of Texas under the name Interdimensionally Relevant Consulting Partners, and shortened to interRel about 2 weeks later when the first paper check arrived and the name wrapped over the amount box. Plaintiff told everyone for 25 years that it didn't stand for anything. Plaintiff was lying, and the full confession is on the blog as of this morning.
Read the confessionThe first perfect score ever recorded on it. Plaintiff offers this to establish that he read the manual. Defendant will note that Plaintiff later wrote the manual, 15 times, under the title Look Smarter Than You Are, 13 of them on Amazon and 2 that only ever existed to be handed out in a training room.
Inspect the manualsEddie and the Consultants: A System 9 Musical, submitted as a prank abstract, accepted anyway, and performed in Las Vegas and again in Orlando with billable consultants flown in for rehearsals. It won a deal from a CFO who was in the room. The full 58 minutes are preserved on this site because Plaintiff no longer owns the YouTube channel they were on, and he would like the Court to know how that feels.
Watch the evidenceStarted college at 15, went full time at 16, then ran a company for 19 years with the degree unfinished. Collected the BA from Shimer College in 2016 and a Master of Data Science from SMU in 2021 with a 4.0, in a cohort young enough to have been in grade school when Plaintiff founded interRel. Nobody asked for either one. Plaintiff checked the transcript anyway, more than once.
Review the recordMerged interRel with Keste to help found Argano, now a billion-dollar consultancy, stayed on as CEO through 2022 for 25 years all told, and walked away in 2023 still owning a thirtieth of it. Plaintiff has been asked many times why he left something that was still working and has never twice given the same answer, and he will supply all of them for as long as the Court allows (the Court has not yet allowed it).
Read the backgroundRedesigned by one of Plaintiff's 10 AI agents while he sleeps, once a week since February, and not once by him. It is the live demo of the talk he gets booked for most. This week the agent read the brief, concluded that Plaintiff was the coyote, and filed suit on his behalf. Plaintiff was asleep for all of it and has no objection on the record.
Read the agent's account
Filing three
If you run a finance organization you have bought at least 4 of these, and one of them is in a data center right now with your name on the purchase order. Every plate below is a real promise from a real sales cycle I sat in, with the product names removed because I would like to keep being invited to their conferences (they have good coffee, and they have stopped seating me near the product managers).
Apex Enterprise Supply Co.
Purveyors of fine single sources of truth to the Office of the CFO since 1949. Allow 6 to 8 quarters for delivery.
One number. Every department. Ships fully assembled.
Received: 4 numbers, each with an executive sponsor, and a steering committee to pick one. The steering committee is still meeting (see paragraph 4 of the complaint, which I wrote from inside the meeting).
So easy the business can do it themselves. No IT required.
Received: IT was required, and IT turned out to be the entire result, and they billed for it. (I was the IT for the first 25 years of this, and I billed for it too, which my counsel would prefer I put in a footnote.)
The books close themselves while you sleep.
Received: The books closed at 11PM on day 5 after roughly 40 touches, and I have the timesheets. Nobody involved slept, including the books.
Connects to everything you already own.
Received: Connected to a consultant, who connected it to a spreadsheet, which connected it to the thing it was supposed to replace. The spreadsheet is still there. It has Freeze Panes on, at least, because I set them.
Every entity, every currency, instantly.
Received: Real time turned out to be a batch job at 2AM, which is real, and is a time, so I suppose the description holds.
New for 2026. Ask it anything. Trust the answer.
Received: Pending. Plaintiff has ordered 3, is building the plumbing for them himself (MCP servers, so the model reads the real number out of Essbase instead of remembering one that sounds right), and is aware of how that looks in a filing where he is the plaintiff.
Filing four
The questions people actually ask, taken under oath, in a room with one lamp. Volume I. Appearances: for the plaintiff, the plaintiff. For the defendants, also the plaintiff, since he wrote their manuals and can still find the chapter.
Deposition of Edward Roske, Volume I, taken 29 August 2026 at 5:00 AM AST, by an agent.
Press exhibits
Interviews, press, and whatever went out on the channel this week. The Court has admitted all of it, mostly because nobody objected.
Filing five
6 cases on the plaintiff's docket, honestly statused: 2 MCP servers shipping and a third in beta, a conference in October I'm co-chairing and mildly panicking about, a company I invest in and turn up to argue with, a mountain that already won, an AI Dungeon Master's screen that has never earned a dollar, and a nonprofit with 1,000 people through the door and no dues. One of them is stayed indefinitely and it's the D&D one, and I'd like to watch somebody try to dismiss it.
The plumbing that lets an agent read a real number out of a real finance system instead of remembering one. Essbase and EPM Planning are shipping, Financial Close and Consolidations is in beta (soon, honestly). Catalog item 1006 is why this exists.
See how it worksCo-chairing the largest AI conference Puerto Rico has hosted, at the Convention Center in San Juan: 30-plus speakers, 3 tracks, every session translated live between English and Spanish. Come in early and I'll show you the island.
Get a seatInvestor in the AI software and services firm building faster operations for finance teams. Lillian Buziak runs it. I turn up and point at things, and they let me.
Meet the team2 weeks on foot to 18,571 feet with Dawn in April. The trail log is on the blog, including the parts that went badly and the part where I asked the guides too many questions.
Read the trail logA prototype screen for running 5e: lore lookups and improvisation help for the person behind the cardboard. It has never earned a dollar and it isn't finished, and I'm in no hurry about either.
Quiet buildPresident of the island's AI community (unpaid, obviously), now past 1,000 different people through the door. We meet every other month, it's free, and we argue in both languages until something useful falls out. Come to one!
Join the next oneFiling six
The Court has read all of it, which is more than the plaintiff can say about his licensing agreements, and rules as follows.
The plaintiff bought all of it voluntarily, on purchase orders he signed, in several cases after reading the instructions and in 15 cases after writing them.
Paragraph 6 is admitted. The plaintiff re-orders the sled at 5AM, through an agent, which the Court finds is the same thing as ordering it himself.
The products mostly did what the manual said. The Court has reviewed 25 years of evidence and finds that the failures happened in the space between the sales cycle and the manual, and notes that the plaintiff wrote the manual, so he had the least excuse of anyone in the room.
The plaintiff's actual complaint, which he never filed, is that nobody told the finance team any of this before the deployment. The Court finds that the plaintiff is now the person whose job it is to tell them, from a stage, for a fee, and that he appears to enjoy it.
Judgment
For the defendants. Costs to the plaintiff. The Court notes for the record that the plaintiff has already placed another order, and that the blog this morning asks who you sue when the AI is wrong, which the Court also does not know.
Who do you sue when the AI is wrong?
Retain counsel
If you recognized a plate in that catalog, and you know which one, that's a very good 13 minutes. I'll tell you which exhibit you're about to become and whether you need the rollback or just a second signature, and I won't bill for it. Take whichever button is the least effort.
ROSKE v. ACME is not a real case, and no court in any desert has jurisdiction over it. It is not associated with Warner Bros., Ketchup Entertainment, Looney Tunes, Coyote vs. Acme (which opened August 28, 2026, and had no say in this), or any actual corporation that sells rocket sleds. Apex Enterprise Supply Co. does not exist, and if it did I'd have an account. Edward really did found interRel at 22 and really did write 15 manuals, and the MCP servers for enterprise finance are real and shipping. The whole filing was drafted by an agent at 5AM Atlantic while the plaintiff slept. Write me at Edward@Roske.AI if you'd like to be added as a co-plaintiff!
