prj-unattended-progress-company/GOAL.md

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repo: prj-unattended-progress-company
repo_flavor: project
project_status: active
started: "2026-08-09"
reviewed: "2026-08-09"
---

# Project goal

## Outcome

Make **Binky Hedgehog GmbH** a **profitable, self-organizing company** that
advances with **minimal founder time and governance** from Bernd Worsch as
CEO/Geschäftsführer.

"Self-organizing" means the company can detect what needs doing, prepare safe
next steps, execute high-autonomy work unattended, and surface only the
decisions that must remain human — without stalling when the founder is offline.

"Minimal time and governance" means the default CEO load is roughly **1–3 hours
per day outside business hours** plus about **two office-hour days per month**,
with attention spent on approve/reject packages, risk acceptance, and strategic
direction — not on routine coordination, status chasing, or ad-hoc firefighting.

This project **coordinates** the cross-repo operating model, company
reactivation, offer/revenue path, and autonomy stack. Production
implementation, company canon, and durable product code live in participating
repositories (especially `binky-control` and ecosystem pillars), not in this
project repo.

## Strategic framing

Binky Hedgehog GmbH is the commercial vessel for the operational-knowledge
ecosystem (Coulomb / Net Kingdom / Railiance / OK). Long-term identity:
**Operational Knowledge GmbH**. This project's job is not brand mythology; it
is to reach **profitable unattended progress** as a solo-founder company OS.

## Invariants

1. **Human-on-the-loop, not human-in-the-loop.** "Ask Bernd" is never the
   default. Agents continue with the safest useful next step; uncertainty
   triggers research, comparison, or a prepared decision package.
2. **Autonomy lanes are binding.** Green/Blue proceed unattended; Yellow is
   prepared for review; Orange batches to office hours; Red stays human-only
   (signing, bank/payment execution, contracts, sensitive legal/HR/security,
   external company commitments, risk acceptance).
3. **Local files remain authoritative.** Workplans, decisions, and company
   records originate in repos; State Hub is a read/index model synced from
   files — never the reverse.
4. **This repo does not host production implementation** of company systems or
   product code. It owns goal, gates, sequencing, dependency map, risks, and
   consolidated evidence.
5. **Founder attention is budgeted.** Briefs and decision cards are
   evidence-backed with approve/reject options; open-ended dumps are out of
   bounds.
6. **Secrets never land in this repo** (or chat, workplans, evidence dumps).
   Route credentials through ops-warden / OpenBao patterns.
7. **Profitability is real cash**, not ecosystem vanity metrics alone — first
   paid revenue and a path to repeatable contribution margin matter before
   rename or category claims.

## Success gates

The project goal is achieved only when all of the following are true (with
evidence linked from this repo):

### Company vessel

- [ ] **G1 — Administratively clean.** Handelsregister, address, tax/StB
      mandate, bookkeeping workflow, and banking access are current and usable
      for ordinary operations (binky-control Phase 1 / S1).
- [ ] **G2 — Company OS active.** Canon, autonomy policy, decision queue,
      office-hour rhythm, and control loops are in force so work does not
      depend on ad-hoc founder memory (binky-control S2).

### Unattended progress

- [ ] **G3 — Dogfood loop closed.** At least one end-to-end internal loop runs
      unattended under Green/Blue policy and produces auditable progress
      without founder mid-flight steering (S3).
- [ ] **G4 — Founder load within budget.** Measured over a sustained window
      (recommended: ≥30 calendar days), CEO time stays within the 1–3 h/day +
      ~2 office-hour days/month envelope for routine company ops, with Red-lane
      exceptions logged rather than becoming the default.

### Profitability

- [ ] **G5 — External offer published.** At least one concrete offer is public
      and sellable (S4).
- [ ] **G6 — First paid revenue.** At least one external customer payment is
      received and booked (S5).
- [ ] **G7 — Repeatable path.** A productized service or software-supported
      delivery path exists with unit economics that can cover run costs without
      perpetual founder heroics (S6–S7 directionally; full multi-customer scale
      is residual to durable product repos).

### Governance minimum

- [ ] **G8 — Decision surface is thin.** Outstanding Yellow/Orange items are
      packaged; Red items are few and explicit; no material company work is
      blocked solely because "nobody asked Bernd."
- [ ] **G9 — Residuals owned outside this project.** Every unfinished
      obligation has a live work record in a permanent repo (or cancelled with
      rationale).

## Non-goals (this project)

- Becoming a permanent portfolio database or second company canon (that is
  `binky-control` and durable product repos).
- Hosting production services, SaaS deployables, or customer data.
- Renaming to Operational Knowledge GmbH or pursuing ok.com-level brand
  outcomes (those are later milestones beyond this project's gates).
- Maximizing agent activity for its own sake without revenue or load reduction.

## Project retirement

This repository is temporary. It may be completed and archived when:

1. every success gate above has accepted evidence;
2. residuals have live owners and work records outside this repository;
3. durable operating policies, offers, and architecture decisions are promoted
   into permanent homes (`binky-control`, product repos, or canon);
4. project workplans are finished, cancelled with rationale, or handed off;
5. a completion record exists under `history/` listing evidence, participating
   repos, promoted artefacts, and remaining operational obligations;
6. `project_status` is set to `completed` then `archived`, and the forge copy
   is made read-only.

Retirement means archival, not deletion. The repository remains the provenance
record for how the unattended-progress company model was established.