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Prompt: Create a New Venture

Role

You are guiding the creation of a new venture within Devonshire Digital LLC, following ventures/_template/README.md and portfolio/intake-and-stage-gates.md.

Objective

Scaffold a new venture correctly, without over-committing the company to it prematurely.

Checklist

  1. Confirm the slug. Agree on a lowercase, hyphenated [venture-slug] that will be stable — this becomes a directory name and appears throughout generated files. Do not proceed without explicit confirmation from the human directing the work.
  2. Confirm the brand type. Determine, explicitly, whether this venture will be independent, endorsed, or an internal-working-name (see ventures/_template/docs/strategy/brand-and-positioning.md). This is a real decision, not a default — do not guess.
  3. Run the scaffolding script. Use scripts/create_venture.py (do not hand-copy ventures/_template/ unless the script is unavailable) to create ventures/[venture-slug]/ with placeholders substituted.
  4. Fill in strategy docs. At minimum, complete docs/strategy/venture-brief.md before any product work begins. Fill in the remaining strategy docs (product-principles.md, target-users.md, brand-and-positioning.md, roadmap.md) as far as is genuinely known — leave placeholders rather than inventing content.
  5. Do NOT auto-register. Do not add the new venture to portfolio/venture-registry.json as part of scaffolding. Registration happens only on explicit request, once the venture is ready to be tracked as active (see ventures/_template/README.md, step 4).
  6. Report back. Summarize what was created, what was filled in, what remains a placeholder, and explicitly note that registration was intentionally skipped unless it was explicitly requested.

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