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Digital Products (Devonside Labs)

Digital Products is the internal working name and repository slug for a Devonshire Digital LLC venture developing structured digital productivity tools. Its public-facing, customer-facing brand name is "Devonside Labs," per ADR-0009 and DD-DIGPROD-ADR-0001 (both approved). "Digital Products" is not customer-facing and must not be presented to customers — use "Devonside Labs" in any public-facing content. Visual identity (the "B3" mark and its square badge are approved; wordmark lockup and color palette are not yet decided) and positioning are tracked in docs/strategy/brand-and-positioning.md.

What this venture is

Digital Products builds tools that solve defined customer problems by guiding the user through a process, separating data entry from calculations and outputs, and shipping with documentation and test coverage. The initial format is advanced Excel workbooks/templates. Other formats (Google Sheets, Notion, Monday.com, downloadable PDFs, automation packages, AI prompt packs, web apps, SaaS products) are possible future directions, evaluated per product rather than assumed — see docs/architecture/future-platform-strategy.md.

This venture is early-stage. No product has yet cleared discovery. See docs/strategy/roadmap.md and the devonside-labs repository's docs/ai/product-backlog.md.

Where things live

  • docs/strategy/ — venture brief, product philosophy, target customer hypotheses, brand and positioning, portfolio strategy, roadmap.
  • docs/ai/ — AI context summary, context-loading order, guardrails, role routing specific to this venture.
  • docs/standards/ — Digital-Products-specific standards for workbook architecture, navigation/UX, visual design, data modeling, validation, calculations, dashboards/reporting, configuration, compatibility, protection/security, accessibility, documentation/packaging, marketplace listings, financial product guardrails, and AI companion content.
  • docs/architecture/ — product architecture pattern, component architecture, product artifact lifecycle, future platform strategy.
  • docs/decisions/ — venture-specific architecture decision records (ADRs).
  • portfolio/ — this venture's own prioritization model and research backlog (distinct from, and subordinate to, the company-level portfolio/ at the repository root). The product backlog itself, and every individual product's specification and registry record, live in this venture's implementation repository (devonside-labs), not here — see ADR-0017.
  • components/ — retired 2026-07-27 (see ADR-0017 above); kept only as a historical, status: deprecated record of what was proposed and never built.
  • prompts/ — venture-specific AI prompt assets used in building or operating Digital Products.
  • work/ — active and archived work plans for venture-specific tasks. See work/README.md.
  • AGENTS.md — the AI operating contract for anyone (human or AI) working in this venture. Read this before doing substantive work here.
  • venture.json — machine-readable venture metadata.

Relationship to the company

This venture operates under the company-level governance, standards, and architecture defined at the repository root (see the root docs/ directories). Nothing in this venture may weaken a company-level requirement. Conventions defined here — the visual design system, the commercialization model, the standards catalog — are specific to Digital Products and do not automatically apply to other ventures (e.g. Shelfery) or to future ventures.

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