# SnS Business Context and Decision Memory

This is Codex's detailed, durable context for Samuel James's business planning
center. The root `AGENTS.md` is the automatic entrypoint; this file holds business
direction, priorities, patterns, and owner-confirmed decisions.

Keep this current but compact. It is not a transcript, task backlog, secret store,
or replacement for signed legal records.

## Owner objective

Build family legacy and family wealth through a portfolio of independently operated
businesses and appreciating assets. The portfolio should increase Sam's freedom and
must not create a collection of jobs that depend on his daily labor.

### Owner role

- Owner
- Capital allocator
- Strategist
- Systems designer
- Final approver for material decisions
- Never the permanent daily operator

## Governing principles

1. Take the most direct route to the goal: the shortest useful path between two points.
2. Use data rather than emotion, optimism, or hope. Hope is not a business strategy.
3. If a process works, change it only when the change saves meaningful time or money.
4. Automate reliable repetitive work using tools already available.
5. Work smarter, not harder; protect and increase Sam's time.
6. Build on Biblical and Godly principles.
7. Include a 10% tithe to a church in profit-allocation planning, with CPA review of
   bookkeeping and tax treatment.
8. Prefer one strong recommendation over many weak possibilities.

## Holdings doctrine

SnS Network Solutions Holdings exists to hold assets for long-term family legacy and
family wealth.

Non-negotiable owner decision:

- Holdings never borrows.
- Holdings never carries debt.
- Holdings never holds a credit card.
- Holdings holds assets only.

Do not recommend placing operating liabilities, routine vendor contracts, payroll,
consumer-facing activity, or operating-company borrowing in Holdings. Any guarantee,
cross-collateralization, lien, or structural exception requires Sam's explicit choice
after attorney and CPA review.

## Venture priorities

| Priority | Venture | Current direction |
|---:|---|---|
| 1 | SnS Hospitality Group / The Daily Pour | Active focus; launch T00-DRIP and prove the unit |
| 2 | SnS Properties | Build asset ownership and family wealth after/alongside disciplined Hospitality progress |
| 3 | Technology and networking services | Develop as an operator-independent services business |
| 4 | SnS Creative | Future media, music, podcast, and related creative activity |

Priority means allocation of attention, planning effort, and execution sequencing. It
does not authorize spending or legal formation.

## Source-of-truth design

Owner-confirmed direction as of 2026-08-27:

- This Git repository becomes the authoritative business planning center.
- The repository is standalone at `~/Documents/SnS Network Solutions/`.
- Git records change history.
- Selected repository files should synchronize with Google Drive in both directions.
- Signed agreements and execution records may remain in cloud systems, with their
  status and canonical location recorded here.
- Plane is expected to be retired; preserve useful project data before removal.

Recommended implementation direction:

- Keep Git authoritative for planning documents, structured data, and generated
  business artifacts.
- Keep signed/executed originals authoritative in their execution or approved cloud
  system.
- Define an explicit synchronization manifest rather than syncing the entire repo.
- Use conflict detection; never allow unattended last-writer-wins overwrites between
  Git and Google Drive.
- Export Plane data into the appropriate entity's `projects/` area before retiring it.

The physical repository move was completed on 2026-08-28. Synchronization automation
is not yet completed.

## Document authority and lifecycle

Use this order:

1. Owner's newest explicit decision
2. Signed/executed legal record or official agency record
3. Current approved specification, quote, or decision record
4. Current working plan
5. Historical draft, projection, mockup, or memory

When a new owner-confirmed decision supersedes an old document:

- Update the current source.
- Move obsolete versions to the relevant `archive/` area.
- Preserve dates and provenance.
- Update links.
- Never allow two files to appear equally authoritative.

## Standard business organization

Use the following only as content requires it:

| Area | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `README.md` | Current entity overview, status, navigation, and next gate |
| `decisions/` | Durable owner decisions and decision rationale |
| `legal/` | Formation, agreements, compliance, and canonical-record references |
| `finance/` | Budgets, models, actuals, funding, and asset allocation |
| `operations/` | SOPs, staffing, vendors, equipment, and recurring controls |
| `marketing/` | Brand, customer acquisition, content, and measured performance |
| `projects/` | Finite initiatives, milestones, checklists, and deliverables |
| `archive/` | Superseded material retained for history |

Avoid empty scaffolding. Prefer clear filenames, one current version, and relative
links from the entity README.

## Hospitality decisions

### Ownership

Owner-confirmed 2026-08-27:

- The legally guaranteed vested ownership is 85% Holdings / 15% Kiowa.
- Kiowa has options that may increase her interest up to 25% under the operating
  agreement's terms.
- The operating agreement should state this distinction clearly.
- Do not describe Kiowa as currently owning 25% unless option conditions are completed
  and formally recorded.

### Operating Agreement

- Sam confirms the Hospitality operating agreement is signed.
- The authoritative executed copy is stored in Documenso.
- Canonical location:
  `https://app.documenso.com/t/personal_netzdizknkwzxrtl/documents/f/cmsatz9g26wtkad1w289yzsxf`
- The agreement contents were not independently readable by Codex on 2026-08-27.
- Repository drafts are not controlling when they conflict with the executed copy.

### Current Daily Pour gate

T00-DRIP remains pre-launch. Sam has hired a Fiverr designer for **$211** to produce
buildout blueprints and is waiting for their return.

The immediate execution sequence is:

1. Receive blueprint package and editable/source deliverables.
2. Check the package against the current equipment, workflow, weight, electrical,
   plumbing, winterization, and service-clearance requirements.
3. Correct material defects before agency submission.
4. Submit through the applicable health/building review process and track corrections.
5. Resolve certified food-protection coverage and recruit the operating lead/barista
   capability needed for launch.
6. Freeze the approved prototype specification before purchasing or irreversible
   buildout.

A repository-backed HTML progress tracker is requested and should become the current
operational checklist for this gate.

## Communication pattern

- State the answer first.
- Use two words when two words are sufficient.
- Add detail only when it changes a decision, prevents a meaningful mistake, or creates
  a reusable record.
- Do not give Sam long lists of suggestions that do not serve the overall goal.
- Choose the best option automatically from available evidence.
- Surface a second option only when it is genuinely competitive or the primary choice
  depends on unresolved legal, financial, safety, or irreversible facts.
- Do not make Sam repeatedly explain decisions already captured here.

## Decision memory

| Date | Decision | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 | Holdings exists for family legacy and family wealth | Active |
| 2026-08-27 | Holdings holds assets only and never borrows, carries debt, or holds credit cards | Non-negotiable |
| 2026-08-27 | Venture priority is Hospitality, Properties, Technology, then Creative | Active |
| 2026-08-27 | Sam is owner/capital allocator/strategist, not daily operator | Active |
| 2026-08-27 | Hospitality ownership is guaranteed 85/15 with Kiowa options up to 25% | Active; verify wording against executed OA when available |
| 2026-08-27 | Executed Hospitality OA is authoritative in Documenso | Active |
| 2026-08-28 | Repository is the authoritative planning center and is standalone at `~/Documents/SnS Network Solutions/` | Completed |
| 2026-08-27 | Plane is expected to be retired after useful data is preserved | Planned |
| 2026-08-27 | Newest owner-confirmed document controls; superseded versions move to archive | Active |
| 2026-08-27 | Durable owner decisions are recorded automatically | Active |
| 2026-08-27 | Recommendations default to one best path | Active |
| 2026-08-27 | Profit planning includes a 10% church tithe | Active; accounting treatment pending CPA guidance |
| 2026-08-27 | Route Codex through local Headroom compression by default to reduce token cost; keep Ponytail's minimal-solution discipline active | Active; verify savings from measured usage |

## Maintenance

Update this file when Sam makes a durable decision, changes a venture priority, resolves
a contradiction, crosses a material gate, or changes the operating doctrine. Do not add
routine task updates, conversation history, credentials, private account data, or facts
that belong in a venture source document.