{"slug":"reference/founder-decision-register","title":"33 · Founder Decision Register","section":"reference","sectionLabel":"Reference","status":"unclassified","type":"document","path":"reference/founder-decision-register.mdx","bytes":2851,"description":"Authority-ranked register of Founder decisions with explicit supersession — what decided what, when, and what it replaced.","updated":null,"source":"integratewise/Integratewise-docs-wiki","content":"\n## Authority Rank (Highest First)\n\n1. **Founder decisions dated 31 Aug 2026 + latest project conversations** — product, experience, memory boundaries, Human Workbench, AI Workbench, human–AI operating model.\n2. **Late-August SpineWorkspace consolidation decisions + master-system visual** — authoritative design direction elaborating the Founder decisions.\n3. **1 Aug 2026 GitHub canonical freeze** — implementation baseline where not superseded.\n4. **Earlier canonical / downstream docs and code** — evidence of implementation, migration state, historical design.\n5. **External 2026 market research** — category and design-pressure validation only.\n\n\nWhen sources disagree, use this rank. A lower source never overrides a higher one.\n\n\n## Register\n\n| Date | Decision | Supersedes | Impact |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 31 Aug 2026 | **Business Context as Tier-0 semantic foundation.** Without it, no meaningful SpineWorkspace. | Feature-as-foundation views | Every doc, plane, and contract must trace to Business Context / Work / Outcome |\n| 31 Aug 2026 | **Spine is THE organization's memory.** Personal Contextual + AI Continuity serve it. | \"Spine Fabric as generic memory\" | Memory boundaries, projection, promotion rules |\n| 31 Aug 2026 | **AI Workbench supersedes Twin Workbench.** Twin is the coworker inside the Workbench. | Twin Workbench | AI view, agent runtime, ADK wiring |\n| 31 Aug 2026 | **Five separate views.** User / Platform / Package / Pipeline / Agentic over the same Spine. | Three-view or single-view framings | Navigation, doc structure, ownership |\n| 31 Aug 2026 | **Verified closure.** Provider success ≠ completion; close on verify → reconcile → Spine → rehydrate. | Close-on-200 | Pipeline, Hermes, reconciliation contracts |\n| Late-Aug 2026 | Master-system visual as authoritative design direction | Earlier architecture diagrams | Reference Architecture |\n\nSee [ADRs](/implementation/adrs) for how each decision became code and contracts, and [Canonical Change Log](/reference/canonical-change-log) for what changed and why.\n\n## Where to Go Next\n\n<CardGroup cols={2}>\n  \n    What changed, why, what it supersedes, implementation impact.\n  \n  \n    One meaning per term — the vocabulary these decisions govern.\n  \n  \n    The single source that established these decisions.\n  \n</CardGroup>\n"}