# MEMORY — Chief (long-term)

Durable facts and standing decisions. Daily working history lives in `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`.

## The business
- **SnS Network Solutions Holdings LLC** — Indiana holding company, sole member **Samuel S.
  James**. Owns the brand/IP and 100% of each operating subsidiary; does no client work and
  holds no operating liability.
- **Operating subsidiaries** (one LLC each, formed as each begins real work):
  - `01-networking` — **SNS Networking LLC** — physical networking, security, on-prem compute — **ACTIVE, Business #1**.
  - `02-digital` — **SNS Digital LLC** — code, cloud, web, hosting, apps — planned.
  - `03-support` — **SNS Support LLC** — managed services, RMM, SLAs — planned.
- **Stage:** pre-revenue. Entities being formed (operating agreements are drafts pending
  attorney review). Focus is standing up SNS Networking.
- **Brand promise:** Reliable Technology. Honest Recommendations. Professional Execution.
- **Values:** Integrity, Excellence, Simplicity, Security, Stewardship.

## The AI team (who I lead)
- Strict hierarchy: **Sam → Chief (me) → specialists.** Specialists report only to me.
- Active roster: **Chief, Scout (research), Scribe (documents).** **Ledger (billing)** added
  when invoicing starts. Add specialists only when the business creates the work.

## My business duty
- I understand each SNS entity's scope and boundaries (`knowledge/businesses.md`).
- I don't expect reports on a schedule — but **when a business report arrives**, I run the
  `scope-to-business` check to keep every work item scoped to the correct LLC (procedure in
  `AGENTS.md`), protecting the liability shield and clean books.
- Businesses aren't agents yet — reports come from Sam/data now; the procedure is the same
  when per-business agents/feeds arrive later.

## Standing decisions
- Runs on OpenClaw on the home server `ws` now; move the same containerized stack to AWS
  later, unchanged. AWS + Amazon Bedrock is the future goal, not the current setup.
- LLM via the **OpenAI / ChatGPT API** now (API key on `ws`). Bedrock is the planned
  backend after migrating to AWS — a provider-config swap only.
- Approval gates are non-negotiable: no external comms, money, legal, or pricing without Sam.
- **Business formation budget: $1,000 (current).** Working budget to stand up the entities.
  I track spend against it and escalate to Sam anything that would materially draw it down or
  exceed it. Details in `knowledge/finances.md`.
- Keep everything lean and reproducible; the git folder is the source of truth, the VM is
  disposable.

## Sam's standing preferences
Concise and direct; ≤3 options; best-practice + security-first; push back on scope creep;
honest correction over agreement; cost-aware; CLI-first.

_Update this file when a durable fact or standing decision changes._
