# Dogfood Policy

> Status: draft v0.1 — 2026-07-16. How internal operations become product
> evidence. Dogfooding is the metabolism of the OK Flywheel.

## Policy

1. **Every internal operational pain is a product signal.** Before buying or
   hand-rolling a one-off solution, check whether an ecosystem capability can
   solve it (`EcosystemMap.md`).
2. **Every internal solution is documented as evidence**: before/after state,
   capability used, effort, outcome, reusable pattern, product implication.
3. **The company sells nothing it hasn't run on itself** where feasible — the
   Operational Knowledge Audit runs on Binky before any customer.
4. **Evidence is recorded at solution time, not reconstructed later.**

## The dogfood loop

```text
Sense:     internal operational pain
Interpret: map pain to ecosystem capability
Decide:    use / build / adapt capability
Act:       solve internally
Record:    evidence and reusable pattern
Learn:     update productization backlog (OfferCatalog.md)
```

## Evidence entry template

```yaml
dogfood_case: ""
date: ""
pain: ""
capability_used: ""
pillar: coulomb | net_kingdom | railiance | operational_knowledge | cross
before: ""
after: ""
effort: ""
reusable_pattern: ""
product_implication: ""
evidence_links: []
```

## Evidence log

```yaml
dogfood_case: "OK Audit v0 run on Binky Hedgehog GmbH itself"
date: "2026-07-16"
pain: "Reactivating a dormant GmbH with unknown compliance/cost/IP state"
capability_used: "Operational Knowledge Audit (flagship offer, v0)"
pillar: operational_knowledge
before: "Compliance state unknown; risks speculative; no actionable queue"
after: "Filings verified current through JA 2024; 4 concrete gaps found; 4 office-hour items queued; 2 risks added, 1 downgraded"
effort: "~1 agent iteration (Green lane, evidence from founder email + file archive)"
reusable_pattern: "Audit template v0 in audits/OK-Audit-v0-binky.md"
product_implication: "Template + this run are the demo evidence for the Level-1 offer (OfferCatalog.md)"
evidence_links: [audits/OK-Audit-v0-binky.md]
```