Digital Products (Working Name)¶
Digital Products is the internal working name for a Devonshire Digital LLC venture developing structured digital productivity tools. The public-facing brand name has not been finalized — every reference to "Digital Products" in this repository is a placeholder for an eventual public brand, not the brand itself. See docs/strategy/brand-and-positioning.md for the current status of naming.
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 portfolio/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 product backlog, prioritization
model, and research backlog (distinct from, and subordinate to, the company-level
portfolio/at the repository root). - products/ — individual product specifications, one directory per
product, built from
products/_template/. Owned and maintained as part of this venture but the template and per-product content are authored by the team working directly in that path. - components/ — the reusable component catalog (specified building blocks such as dashboard patterns, validation patterns, calculation patterns) shared across products in this venture.
- 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.