# 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 | cross
before: ""
after: ""
effort: ""
reusable_pattern: ""
product_implication: ""
evidence_links: []
```

## Evidence log

*(append entries below)*