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# Success Milestones
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> Status: draft v0.1 — 2026-07-16. The ladder from legal shell to "ok.com is a
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> rational acquisition". Intermediate rungs keep the mythic endpoint from
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> distorting the present.
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## Success ladder
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| Rung | Milestone | Status |
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| --- | --- | --- |
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| S0 | Legal vessel exists | ✅ done (2019) |
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| S1 | Company is administratively clean | ⬜ in progress (Phase 1) |
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| S2 | Company has an active operating system | ⬜ started (this repo) |
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| S3 | First internal dogfood loop works | ⬜ |
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| S4 | First external offer published | ⬜ |
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| S5 | First paid revenue | ⬜ |
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| S6 | Repeatable productized service | ⬜ |
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| S7 | Software-supported delivery | ⬜ |
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| S8 | Multiple customers | ⬜ |
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| S9 | Operational Knowledge rename makes sense | ⬜ |
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| S10 | Category identity emerges | ⬜ |
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| S11 | OK becomes a serious brand | ⬜ |
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| S12 | ok.com becomes a rational acquisition | ⬜ |
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## Rename readiness criteria (gate for S9)
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Rename to **Operational Knowledge GmbH** when most of these are true:
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- [ ] First repeatable offer exists
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- [ ] Clean accounting/admin operations
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- [ ] Website and messaging are coherent
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- [ ] At least one paying customer or serious pilot
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- [ ] Ecosystem map is understandable to outsiders
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- [ ] Dogfood evidence exists
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- [ ] Product direction is narrower than the full idea cloud
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- [ ] "Operational Knowledge" clearly describes what is being sold
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## Rule
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Milestone status changes are founder decisions, recorded in
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`DecisionQueue.md` with evidence.
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