design status
Updated 23 Oct · Where each surface stands
Once you've said yes to the shops in the "Bookstores to watch" blocks (New York City, Los Angeles, Paris and London guides), we'd read each one's events page once a week, every Monday, and pick out the events that fit Art Matters: art-book and photobook signings, launches with artists and designers, writers in conversation, film and food tie-ins. We'd leave out celebrity memoirs and book-club nights. The good ones would show on Home Base as "This week, IRL" for you to keep or drop, and the ones you keep would go into Friday's Substack under the city, with the shop, the date and the link. Where a shop only posts on Instagram (Ofr., Donlon, Mast), we'd note that and check by hand. Nothing reaches readers without your yes.
In 30 seconds: the deep work is built: the desks, the records and the nightly research. What stands between it and readers is design, and eight calls only you can make. Each row below has our suggestion filled in. Tap Yes, go with ours and it reaches us as a note (it shows in Your notes on Home Base), or tap Something else to say what you want.
Order. Rows 1 to 3 come first because everything a reader sees about a brand depends on them. Row 4 waits on row 1's tile. Row 5 stands alone and can be decided any time. Rows 6 to 8 follow the briefs list further down this page.
Row 2. The card lives on the Fashion Week page (open Ruadh). The Brand Desk's Proof tab today shows the six disclosure questions as a plain list (10 Oct). Our suggestion puts the card beside certifications and research for every brand the questions apply to. Nothing is built until you say.
Row 1. The full reasoning and the ten parts of the card are in the consumer brand card brief (23 Oct). The photo at full width on a phone is about 520px tall, which pushes the name off the first screen. Corners: the August brief and Art Out East are square; Design Rules and the card family use about 5px. Values: as of 20 Sep only 32 of 2,612 brands carried a source.
Row 3. From the Directory plan (24 Oct). Nothing is deleted in the cleanup; every change is logged and can be undone. Decision 5 here and decision 5 in row 1 are the same 20 Sep question, so one answer settles both.
Row 4. The library brief is the 24 Jul draft (not locked). All 12 earlier brands were taken down on 27 Sep for full vetting, so the library shows nothing until you put brands live.
Row 5. The draft is RECIPE-PARTS-DRAFT-2026-10-14 in CA_BUILD › Active. Its compact rows and the Map folded into Parts went live on 14 Oct, on your go (RECIPE-PARTS-LIVE-2026-10-14). The line's own brand link was kept in the opened row until you decide on one link field.
Row 6. The 13 Oct media card design pass is a draft; the live reader uses a side drawer and the beta a tabbed pop-up.
Row 7. The 19 Aug search and filtering brief covers this; its approval isn't recorded.
Row 8. The share and distribution brief and playbook are from 8 Jul. The widgets in use: place, Art Out East, stay, brand, media and recipe.
What a tap does. Yes, go with ours sends one note to us with the row and our suggestion. Something else opens the note box for your own words. Nothing on the tools changes until we act on the note. If you're not signed in on this device, the tools' sign-in box opens once.
In 30 seconds: saving still works. All 125 captures in the last two weeks saved, none were lost, and “already in” now adds to the record instead of erroring. What broke is everything after the save: captures stopped being sorted on 25 Oct, the Trawl Log pile has not been worked since 21 Oct, and since 6 Oct most captures go in with no words on them. That is why things end up dropped in chat instead.
| What | State | When, and which change | The fix | Effort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sorting each capture (place, brand, recipe…) | Working, checked 26 Oct. It never stopped: it runs every night and sorts 30. On 25 Oct it spent its 30 on old March captures, so the newest waited a day. Last night it sorted every capture since 25 Oct. 133 old March and April captures are left, about 30 a night. Was: every capture since 25 Oct, midday, is unsorted. | 25 Oct. Same days the background jobs started failing: 25 failed runs on 22 Oct, 64 on 25 Oct, 126 today, across 17 jobs, mostly “couldn’t start in time”. | Lighten or space the heavy background jobs (the same two slow refreshes as in the Home Base audit), then restart the sorter and run it over the captures it missed. | Medium |
| The Trawl Log pile | Not being worked. 1,063 captures sent to “Trawl Log” are waiting; the oldest is from 18 Mar; the last one moved on 21 Oct. 84 arrived this month. | Not one change. Nothing moves them on its own, so anything sent to Trawl Log stays there. | Move the clear ones on their own (sorted, with a link) and bring the rest to you as one-tap rows, a few a day. | Medium to large |
| Words on a capture (vertical, sub-category, tags, “+ add”) | Fixed 26 Oct (once Trawl is published). Words you pick from the shared list now go on the capture’s tags too, and the caption from the link is kept instead of being wiped by an empty “Why”. Of the 49 with no words, 30 now have words from what they are (21 Wellbeing, 5 Media, 2 Beauty, 1 Home, 1 Style); 19 are only a name or a bare link, so nothing to go on. Was: only 11 of 125 used the list; 49 had no words. | 6 Oct, the switch to the shared word list. The old rows are still there underneath; a per-device “use the old lists” switch exists. | Bring the free tags box back alongside the shared list, and make the shared list open with your usual picks showing. | Small |
| Place tagging on capture | Fixed 26 Oct. Cause: Instagram captures were saving with no caption (see Words), so there was nothing to read. Also, short names like OR and ME matched the words “or” and “me”; they now only count in capitals. October re-run: 9 captures got their places (Santa Cruz, Lapland, Puglia, LA, two in New York, London, Tokyo, Georgian Bay), 8 wrong ones taken off. “Olive” (a town in Ulster County) still catches olive oil and names. Was: 0 to 3 a week since early October. | From the week of 5 Oct. Lines up with the 6 Oct word list change; not yet confirmed as the cause. | Check what it reads now that the Note is folded into Why; re-run it over October’s captures. | Small |
| Link from the capture to its home record | Fixed 26 Oct: 8 of 10. Linked the 4 recipes, 2 editorial, the Media item (OTO from Tokyo was already on the Media Desk) and the brand post (linked to all six fibre brands). Left for you: the research one (houseofizzie, marked “added by mistake”) and the Build one (Stefan Vignogna’s kitchen details, which reads like Design, not Build). Was: 10 captures in two weeks with no link. | Mostly 21–22 Oct, the days many captures came in from chat rather than through Trawl. | Link the 8; send the 2 on. Have chat filing use the same save as Trawl so the link is always made. | Small |
| “+ Capture with marks” button | Works, but it always files to Design reference, whatever the capture is, and sits on top of the page. | 21 Oct, added as a trial. | Keep it only on Design reference, or label it “to Design reference”. | Small |
| Capture (the quick list page) | Not used since 1 Jun. It keeps its own list, and when it sends something on it makes no Trawl Log copy and doesn’t check for “already in”. | Not changed; left behind as Trawl grew. | Retire it and point it at Trawl. | Small |
| Still working | Saving (no failed saves, nothing rescued in 14 days) · “already in” adds to the record (7 Oct) · Instagram and link capture with title and source (59 Instagram captures) · photo upload · every destination: recipes, brands, editorial, resources, media, places, trips · the Trawl Log page itself (one-tap suggestions added 26 Oct). Share sheet, bookmarklet and offline saving were never part of Trawl in any saved copy, so nothing there was lost. | |||
Each row on Home Base: where it lands, whether you can tell what it is, whether one tap does it, and whether it leaves Home Base afterwards. Clear hides a row from Home Base only; the record behind it is never removed.
| Row | Lands | Understandable | One tap | Clears | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brands · “Add with via stockists?” and “Load the full range?” | Each brand name opens its Brand Desk card; Work through opens them one by one | Yes | Yes: one tap per brand (first tap on a device asks for the 6-digit code once) | Yes, the brand drops off | Works |
| Brands · done rows (e.g. Clare V. queued) | Brand Desk card | Yes | Now: Clear, with Undo | Now yes; folded into “Done today (n)” | Fixed |
| Recipes · lines that need your choice | Two lines shown on Home Base, all in Recipe Desk | Yes: the line, the question, what each option does | Yes (code once per device) | Yes, the line drops off | Fixed (was “Sign in to see them”) |
| Food · recipes with a To check (new) | Each recipe in Recipe Desk | Yes | Answer or Resolved on the card | Row leaves when the count reaches 0, or Clear | New · Recipe Desk is slow to open (about 15 s) |
| Food · ingredients without checked nutrition or price (new) | Ingredient library | No longer on your list (26 Oct). One line in Updates & scans: "Research running · X left", gone when nothing is left | Nothing for you to do | None | Changed 26 Oct · kitchen tools no longer counted |
| Media Diet · titles waiting for your rating (new) | Media Desk, Media Diet tab; three names open their cards | Yes | Rate on the card | Clear, or it drops when all are rated | New · the tab shows all 130, with no “not rated” filter |
| Media Diet · To checks and the “Must read” draft mix (new) | The card; the Media Diet tab | Yes | Resolved on the card; Put live in Media Desk | Clear | New |
| Reference · Media: In or Out | Each title now shows cover, one line, Site and Instagram links | Yes | Yes: In or Out (code once per device) | Yes | Fixed: only the 68 ready ones are asked; 160 sent to research, 14 people sent to review |
| Reference · done row (Confirm now routes…) | Trawl Log | Yes | Clear | Yes | Fixed |
| Build · places to check (Other guides, Millbrook, Hudson, Upstate) | Guide Curator for that guide | Yes | No single tap: each place has its own To check | Now: Clear | Fixed (had no button at all) · Guide Curator takes 8 s+ to open |
| To do · Places waiting in the Trawl Log | Trawl Log, places only | Yes | Link & close, Confirm: place, or Not this | Count drops as each goes | Fixed: the list showed 177, Home Base said 159; now both count the Trawl Log only |
| To do · Trawl captures not sorted, Cabagges blocks, Waiting to come in, Maine board, To market, Not a brand?, Rec League | The right tool, on that set | Yes | One tap per item in each | Row drops when the list is empty | Works |
| Updates & scans (new): morning update, briefing, media scans, sales scans, sale events | Editorial, Notion, Good Shit On Sale, Pipeline Health | Yes, each with its last run | Nothing to tap; a stopped job says so and links to Pipeline Health | Not a to-do | New · Sales email scan is stopped since 24 Oct |
| System status · last 24 hours | Pipeline Health | Yes | Was “Sent to Dispatch” (untrue); now “Needs a restart — on Pipeline Health” | Not a to-do | Fixed |
| Affiliate links | Brand Desk, links lists | Yes | Links to check: Right or Wrong product per link | Yes | Fixed: the read failed when the page opened ~50 reads at once |
| Affiliate admin | Closed by default: “24 to do · 22 done” | Yes | One tick each | Ticked rows move to Done | Fixed |
| Gift list | Count, three names, then “all 19 →” | Yes | Opens each card | Not a to-do | Fixed |
| Chat backup line (new, top of page) | Pipeline Health, fix 4 | Yes | Not a to-do; never clearable | Not a to-do | New · red: no copy on record since 27 Sep |
| Where | The hole | The fix |
|---|---|---|
| The database, every few minutes | Two background refreshes (the dashboard, and the Brand Desk cache) take 11–12 seconds each and run every few minutes. While they run, pages that open many reads at once (Home Base, Brand Desk) get “ran out of time” answers and show blanks or “busy”. | Run them less often or make them lighter. Home Base now spaces its reads and retries, so it fills in a few seconds later instead of blanking. |
| Sales Curator | Opens on a “curator key” box, a dead end for you. | Use the same sign-in as the other desks. Home Base now links to Good Shit On Sale, which works. |
| Sales email scan | Stopped since 24 Oct; it had filed 64 sales in two weeks. | Restart it (Pipeline Health). |
| Media research | Switched off since 4 Oct, so the 160 media titles sent to research wait. | Restart it (Pipeline Health); the cloud copy needs its one key. |
| Media Desk | A person filed as media can be found (Home Base link) but not moved to People in one tap; the Media Diet tab has no “not rated” filter. | Add “Move to People” on the card, and a Not rated filter on the Media Diet tab. |
| Design reference (released to another session) | Media list needed filters (Ready to decide · Waiting for research · People filed as media) and a one-line description per row. Written into the page source on 26 Oct, not shipped by this session; and no way to edit a card (being built now). | Ship with the card Edit work; until then the Media tab shows every title, with no filter. |
| Recipe Desk | Opening a recipe from a link takes about 15 seconds; it reads “Loading the library…” first. | Load the one recipe first, the library after. |
| Guide Curator | Opening any guide shows “Loading…” for 8 seconds or more. | Same: load the guide asked for first. |
| Brand Desk | The links lists sometimes open on “The database is busy… trying again”. | It retries on its own; a lighter first read would stop it. |
| Ingredient library | No filter or link for “without checked nutrition” or “without a price”. | Add both, so the Food rows can open on just those. |
| Brand calls on Home Base | The call title (e.g. “Add with via stockists?”) opens a Notion page that needs a Notion sign-in in Safari. | Point the title to the work-through in Brand Desk instead. |
| Sign-in on Safari | Every save (Yes, In/Out, recipe choice) needs you signed in on that device; the first tap asks for a 6-digit code. | Home Base now says so up front with a Sign in now button. Sign in once per device. |
In 30 seconds: a Relationship tab on each Brand Desk card with two timelines side by side. We talked about them fills itself from the stories, gift lists, Rec League and sale posts we already record. We talked to them holds emails, calls, applications, affiliate status, samples and events, each with who on the team did it. A status line sits on top, and one desk-wide list shows who is waiting on a reply and who is due a follow-up. Everything is a link back to where it already lives, never a copy.
The honest part: today the brand, affiliate and partnership records can be read by anyone who opens a page's source, and the notes we call private are kept off public pages only because no page chooses to show them. So the relationship notes need their own closed home first, readable only by people on a team list who sign in as themselves. That is decision 1. Nothing has been built and no record was changed to write this.
What happened. Annmarie Skin Care wrote three times (11, 14 and 21 Sep) to the affiliate address, offering a box and their own affiliate programme. The 12 Sep morning briefing showed the first email once. Nothing kept it on a list, and the two follow-ups never showed. The sale-email check only picks up sale emails, and the affiliate address is the one address in your inbox with no account tag, so nothing marked these as brand mail. As more brands come to us directly, not only through ShopMy, this will keep happening.
How it would land, going forward (written, not built):
Waiting today: Annmarie's three, plus 16 other brands: 3 direct asks through impact and 13 ShopMy gifting offers that were never opened.
What already exists and gets reused (read from the live records this morning, 25 Oct):
The security reality, plainly. Private-client picks and the client list are properly locked: a page can't see them unless it carries the curator key, and we check that after every change. Photo, PDF and tools uploads need your sign-in since 21 Oct. But the brand records, the affiliate list, partnerships and the picks can be read, and most can be changed, by anyone who opens a page's source. The "private" note on a pick (30 of them), a brand's notes and its affiliate note are kept off public pages, embeds and feeds only because no public page asks for them. That's habit, not a lock. So, today: yes, relationship data can be kept off public pages, but only if it lives in a new closed home, not in those records.
What's needed before other people get access: (1) their own sign-in, with the email code the tools already use; (2) a team list saying who is on it and in what role, because today the records recognise only you by email, and a few let any signed-in account read everything; (3) who sees what: the closed home checks "on the team list", never just "signed in"; (4) how access ends: remove them from the list and it ends at once; (5) the shared curator key stays yours and is never handed to a team member, because it can't tell people apart. There are 2 sign-in accounts today, both yours. Whether a stranger could create an account on their own I couldn't confirm from here; the plan doesn't rely on it either way.
The risks:
What each step involves. 1 · Lock first (small, about one session): the closed home, the team list with you on it, and the standing check that a public page gets nothing back. 2 · About them (medium, one to two sessions): the timeline reads picks, edits, Rec League, gift guide flags and sale posts, links only, newest first. 3 · To them (medium, one to two): sale emails and affiliate changes arrive by themselves; a one-tap add for email, call, sample, event or application, stamped with who. 4 · Status and desk view (small, one): the status line, the next date, the Waiting on a reply and Follow-up due filters on the Brand Desk list, and the Home Base morning line. 5 · Before anyone joins (medium, one to two): each person's own sign-in, roles, and moving the open brand, affiliate and partnership records to "anyone can read what's published, only the team can change" so a teammate's access doesn't open anything else.
Where this came from. The live records (read only), the Brand Desk and Home Base pages, Outreach flow, the security notes from 20 Jul, 7 Oct, 8 Oct and 21 Oct in CA_BUILD › Active, and your Gmail label list. The four memory notes named in the ask (security state, security lane after 16 Sep, default-closed rule, private client access) aren't in the folders this session can reach, so their content was taken from the security notes and checked against the live records instead. Nothing was built, and no record or setting was changed.
Four areas, six surfaces each: what is settled, what is moving, and where a brief is still missing.
Updated 25 Oct · since the plan: the Brand Desk card now has seven tabs: a read-only Sales tab (from GSOS) sits between Where it goes and History. It also gained a Note to us box, name and website edits in place, and a work-through list that moves card to card. Behind the briefs, the four research jobs (brands, places, resource links, community) now save through new save functions. Each save fills only empty fields, keeps what is already there, and ignores your verdict, rating and voice fields even if sent. Pages are read on the server; finding things is back on Claude's web search. Proven 25 Oct. Nothing a reader sees changed, and both sets of five decisions (the consumer card brief and the Directory) are still open.
Updated 24 Oct · new plan: the Directory, with Brand Desk showing brands only and one desk with a tab for every other role. Written, not built; five decisions for you.
Updated 23 Oct · next step for Brands: the consumer brand card brief is written and waiting on your five decisions. Your backend card (Option A) went live on the Brand Desk today. Nothing for readers has been built from the brief yet.
Each square shows the live link and the brief behind it, if there is one. The outlined square in each row is the one lagging most. Read-only: nothing was changed to make this page. Anything I could not confirm is marked unconfirmed.
| Library | Group view | Search | Individual card | Widgets | Social | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrandsFood, style, home, home keeping, pets, movement |
Most lagging
In progress
The library page is built, but its sign-off has been open since 3 Aug. It shows no brands today: none are published (checked this morning). All 12 were taken down on 27 Sep for full vetting. Two older library pages are still up. LiveBrand Library BriefBrand library design brief, 24 Jul (a draft, not locked) |
No brief
Readers can only filter the library by vertical. There is no group or edit page yet. Brands are grouped into stories, gift lists and beta picks, but only on the Brand Desk. MockBrand edits, 2 Oct (design only) |
Brief exists, not built
There's a search box on the library page, by what a brand makes. It isn't shared with the other areas. The Brand Desk search (tags, keywords, products, 20–21 Oct) is yours only. LiveLibrary search box BriefSearch & filtering brief, 19 Aug (approval not recorded) |
In progress
Your Brand Desk card is settled (card family, approved 13 Oct), but readers never see it. It moved to the Option A layout on 23 Oct (brand card plan). The reader's brand page opens as a side panel with no approved design, and its photos are 4:3 and 16:11, not 3:4. There are 10 different brand cards in use. The consumer card brief was written 23 Oct, below; nothing has been built from it. LiveBrand page (reader) BriefConsumer brand card brief, 23 Oct (on this page) EarlierBrand library brief, 24 Jul · Brand page brief, 10 Aug · Brand tile finishing pass, 20 Aug · Brand card versions, 13 OctEfficiency note on the Desk card, 23 Oct (for the brief; nothing redesigned):
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In progress
There are two brand widgets in two different designs. The older one is built on the Art Out East feature card. The newer one is a temporary beta embed, "design pending". Only YUZUCO has a cleared photo. Neither appears on canava.co. LiveBrand widget LiveTemporary brand embed BriefNone of their own |
No brief
A mock from 29 Jul: story units, a four-slide carousel and share cards, with temp photos and sample copy. It isn't connected to the brand record and hasn't been approved. MockBrand Social Kit |
| Media DietGuide the audience, build community |
In progress
Live, but its design is a placeholder (approved as a placeholder 1 Oct). You turned down two August directions. Approval of the Art Guide reframe isn't recorded. 37 titles are live, and 1 has a cleared image (checked this morning). LiveMedia Diet reader MockMedia Diet system, 1 Oct BriefDesign direction & library direction, 8 Aug (both turned down) · Art Guide reframe, 8 Aug |
In progress
Mixes work: you can make them on the Desk, and they show as tabs on the reader. There's no designed mix page of its own yet. LiveMixes on the reader BriefMedia Diet kit spec, 21 Jul (proposed) |
Most lagging
No brief
Readers have no search anywhere in Media Diet; only the Desk has one. A guide people can't search can't connect like-minded people, and that's its purpose. The only cover is the cross-area search work from 19 Aug, which was an assessment. BriefNone for Media Diet |
In progress
The Desk card is settled (card family, 13 Oct). The reader card has two competing patterns: a side drawer on the live reader, and a tabbed pop-up on the beta. The 3:4 photos from the 13 Oct pass landed. The rest of that pass is still a draft. LiveDrawer (live reader) BetaTabbed pop-up BriefMedia card design pass, 13 Oct (draft) |
In progress
There are two embed systems, and neither has a design. The widget uses 4:5 and 4:3 frames, not 3:4. It reads the full title list rather than only the cleared ones, so check that it can't show an image that isn't cleared (unconfirmed). LiveMedia widget LiveTemporary media embed BriefNone |
No brief
The only social piece is a placeholder Instagram portrait card inside the widget. There's no carousel and no share card. BriefNone |
| Travel / JourneyThe furthest along; the model for the rest |
Most lagging
No brief
Readers have no page that gathers the guides. There's no brief, no mock and no page. A travel overview map and a stays guide reader are both noted as not built. BriefNone |
In progress
The map engine is settled. The guide as a page for readers has only been designed once, for Art Out East. Cover image and intro on every guide, and a front page for Out East, are still to do. LiveArt Out East on canava.co LiveReader map BriefMap redesign brief, 7 Jul · Art Out East design handoff, 18 Jul |
Settled inside a guide
Search, Near me and the compass all work inside a guide; the 19 Aug brief rates it the best search in the system. Search across guides isn't built: canava.co's site search can't see the guides. LiveSearch in the guide map BriefSearch & filtering brief, 19 Aug (covers search across guides) |
Settled
The map's place card has its 3:4 photo with swipe (9 Oct), directions by name, and the PRO TIP. Your curator card (the 9 Sep version) is settled too. The stay card is built from the feature card, with square corners, so it doesn't match the place card. LivePlace card (open any pin) LiveGuide Curator card BriefClaude Design map embed handoff, 7 Jul |
In progress · built, not refined
The Art Out East widgets work, and so does the place widget, which has five layouts. The place widget's agreed trim isn't in the live version. The 8 Oct update was never confirmed live. LiveWidget catalog LivePlace widget BriefPlace widget scoped pass, 27 Jul. No refinement brief. |
Brief exists, not built
Sharing a place works: link previews and the Share button. Guide and trip share cards, and Share as image for Stories, are briefed but not built. You're working on this now. BriefShare & distribution brief and playbook, 8 Jul |
| Food / RecipesCard and flow far along; listing behind |
No brief
There's no CANAVA recipe index, only the standard Squarespace food listing. The recipe card links its course and diet labels to an index page that doesn't exist, so those links go nowhere. LiveSquarespace food listing BriefNone (the 19 Aug implementation map lists it as missing) |
Brief exists, not built
The path (Food › Course › Main group › Anchor ingredient) was approved on 14 Oct and works on the Desk. Readers have no page that groups recipes. Most of the 37 suggested paths are still suggestions. LiveRecipe Desk (yours) BriefRecipe taxonomy & search proposal, 14 Oct (approved) |
Brief exists, not built
Readers use canava.co's site search, through a third-party plugin. There's no recipe filter for readers. The search words behind the Desk are built. Livecanava.co search BriefSearch & filtering brief, 19 Aug |
Settled
The approved recipe card (19 Aug) is the full reader embedded on canava.co. You checked all 18 live pages. An older copy and a test version are still up. LiveRecipe card BriefApproved recipe card, 19 Aug · Recipe design brief and embed spec, 19 Aug · Recipe flow design pass, 12 Oct |
In progress · built, never reviewed
The card, teaser and tile layouts work. The look hasn't changed since about 13 Oct, and its design has never been reviewed. Since 15 Oct the Desk offers it only as "Small card instead". LiveRecipe widget BriefNone of its own (the lock sheet's step 12 names it) |
Most lagging
No brief
There's no brief, mock or build. The Desk has one line saying a social post is "one more view of this same record". The smoothie posts from 16 Sep are drafts, not a design. BriefNone |
Strong: the Brand Desk card (card family, 13 Oct) and the entity record behind it.
Lagging: everything a reader would see. The library has no approval and no published brands. There are 10 brand cards, two widget designs, no group page, and social exists only as a mock.
Most lagging: the Library. It's the backbone, and today it's empty and unsigned.
Next step (23 Oct): your five decisions on the consumer brand card brief. The card, tile and embed all come from it, and the library uses the same tile.
Strong: the Desk card, mixes that work, and a live reader.
Lagging: the reader's design is a placeholder. The record has two ways to open (drawer vs pop-up), the two embeds have no design, and readers have no search or social.
Most lagging: Search, the surface its community purpose depends on.
Strong: the map, the place card, search inside a guide, sharing a place, the Art Out East widgets and the area chain.
Lagging: the guide as a finished page (designed once, for Art Out East), widget refinement, and guide and trip social.
Most lagging: the Library, a front door that gathers the guides.
Strong: the approved recipe card, live on 18 pages, and the approved course path on the Desk.
Lagging: nothing that lists or groups recipes for readers, the widget's design has never been reviewed, and there's no social.
Most lagging: Social, with nothing at all. A close second is the Library, because the card's labels already point at an index page that doesn't exist.
The most lagging surface overall: the Brands Library. Brands is the backbone of everything outside editorial. Its library has been waiting on sign-off since August and shows nothing today. The brand card, group view, widgets and social all depend on it.
Travel is the furthest along, and it's what the other verticals will draw on as they fold out to publish. Here is each pattern: whether it's ready to reuse, where it lives, and what it could serve.
| Pattern | Ready to reuse? | Where it lives | Could serve |
|---|---|---|---|
| The area chainGuides nested inside guides: town, county, region. | Settled. Locked 1 Jul, and the Upstate zones were locked 9 Aug. It already works for any vertical, with no destination built in. The guide dashboard breadcrumb uses it. The new town › county › state chain on curator cards (22 Oct) comes from a different source. | Guide Dashboard | Brand groups (Food › Pantry › Oils), Media Diet mixes inside mixes, and recipe collections by region or season. The shell note already names a shopping guide and a media guide as future users. |
| Art Out East widgetsFeature card, teaser tile, text tile, title band. | Settled. Shipped 25 Jul, and not tied to any guide. Your own images and copy go in through the Widget Editor. They need a refinement pass, not a redesign. | Widget catalog · Feature card · Teaser tile · Widget Editor | The base for a single widget family. The brand widget already uses the feature card. The recipe and media widgets are separate designs that could fold in. |
| Place cardsThe map card, the curator card, the place widget. | Curator card settled (the 9 Sep version is the source of the card family). Map card and place widget still being adjusted (9 Oct, 8 Oct). | Guide Curator · Map card · Place widget | A single reader card for brand and media, with the 3:4 photo, the facts and the PRO TIP. The card PNG export is already set aside for the brand library. |
| The guide mapThe map with its search band, Near me, place filter row and named lists. | The engine is settled, but it's still changing daily (8 reader updates on 20 Oct). It's mostly generic, but a few guide names are still built in, including Art Out East as the default. | Reader map · Guide Map (yours) · Art Out East on canava.co | Brand stockists and where to buy, and recipe journeys (farms, markets, makers). Not Media Diet: you turned down a map-shaped Media Diet on 8 Aug. |
| Journey mapsThe residency board and the research ladder. | Not ready as is. The board is wired to the Maine trip alone. Its card-opening bug was reported three times. The research ladder (Journey Drafts) works for any guide, but it has never been used to move a guide to ready. | Journey Board (read-only) · Journey Drafts | The idea carries over: a board of a plan by place and date. For recipes that could mean a season or a trip's cooking. For brands, a buying trip. The board itself would need to be made general first. |
| Client portal tilesThe Compass: a private page made of modules for one client. | Still moving (12 updates on 20 Oct, the journey layout on 20–21 Oct). It already mixes travel, recipes (the recipe hero, 13 Oct) and products. It's private: each client opens it with their own link. | Private Clients (each portal opens from there) | A member or client edit across all four areas: a trip, its recipes, its brands, what to read. The private-client framework (19 Jul) and member access plan (20 Jul) are still drafts. |
A design brief, 23 Oct 2026. Design only: nothing here has been built, and no tool or record was changed to write it. The Brand Desk card you rebuilt is your backend; this is the card a reader sees.
Done: a lot of design work for readers. The library brief (24 Jul) set the tile and six tabs, and the brand page brief (10 Aug) set the order, the answer coming first and the honest money. There are eleven mocks (29–30 Jul), a finishing-pass prompt for Claude Design (20 Aug), and a working tile-and-panel page that isn't on canava.co.
Not what they look like: the two 20 Sep papers aren't about the reader card's design. They cover whether the 136 fashion week houses join brands (A merge / B link / C keep apart) and the flags on your own card, and your ruling isn't recorded.
Not done: no reader card design has been approved, there was no brief written since the 3:4 card family, and no brand card or embed is on canava.co. The reader card note further up this page was a recommendation until this brief.
The reader first. Curious and scanning, usually on a phone. They arrive from a story, a guide, a gift list, an embed or a shared link, and want to know fast whether to trust this brand and where to get it.
The friend you hand one brand to. The card has to stand on its own, with no library around it.
Later, members and private clients, who save and shortlist. Leave room for Save, as the map card does with Save to trip, but don't design the account side yet.
Not you. Your working, flags and private notes stay on the Desk card.
| Public on the card | Backend only, on the Desk | On the record, not public today: yours to call |
|---|---|---|
| Your verdict (once approved) and your published words. Outside ratings and certifications with source and date. Where it's made, materials, values. Products marked Known for and New, with price. Where to buy, with links and the disclosure. Founders and owners. The stories, edits, guides and gift lists it's in. Alternatives. Sources and the date read. | Your private notes. Flags and what's owed. A proposed rating until you approve it. The "not looked at" list. Commission rates and affiliate status. Pipeline, keywords, design favourites, review notes. Outreach records, until you rule. | Investors and funding rounds, the debate, impact numbers, loved products, where it's sold, social handles. These are on the brand record but not in what the public pages can read (checked this morning). Each one needs a yes before it shows. |
Full card. All ten parts above. In the library and group pages it opens over the list: a side sheet on desktop, a bottom sheet on a phone, the same mechanism as the map card. It also has its own link, so a story or a share opens it directly and it can later stand as a page of its own.
Tile, for the library, a group or edit, and search results. The 3:4 photo, then name, verdict and one line. Nothing else: no chips and no buttons. The same tile in every grid.
Embed or widget, for canava.co pages, in three cuts from the same card: the tile; the compact card (photo beside the record, which is the temporary beta embed's layout grown up); and the full card as a frame that sizes itself, as the recipe card does. This replaces the two brand widgets and the extra brand cards once you've approved it.
Phone first: design at 390 wide, then widen. Pill rows stay on one line on desktop.
The shared skeleton for all four areas: photo, then the record beside it, then our take, then sections that hide when empty, then where to find it, then a quiet footer. Brands, media titles and places all fill it. The recipe card stays its own approved object and borrows the tile.
A design plan, 24 Oct 2026. Written, not built. Nothing was moved, re-labelled or deleted to write it. Counts were read from the live records this morning.
You said yes to moving the clear ones, and they're moved. The test was re-run on today's 5,359 cards, so the new ones were included: 680 came out clear. 675 moved; 5 were held back for you.
Where they went. 593 to Resources: 81 certifiers, 207 investors, 260 owners and groups, 39 nonprofits and 6 platforms. 72 to places on their guides: 62 places and 10 museums and venues filed as nonprofits, each already on its guide, so nothing new was added there (two, Aperture Foundation and Ursa Major, still have no pin on the map, as before). 10 to the Media Desk: 5 were already titles there and are now linked; 5 show in a "From the brand cards" line at the top of the Desk. None went to People: no person came out clear.
Kept both. 24 are also real product brands, so they keep their brand side and stay on the Brand Desk too: for example Rachel Comey, Ursa Major, Canyon Coffee, Sey Coffee, Seed Savers Exchange, Camper, Kvadrat, Momofuku, St. Agni and Whole Foods Market (its own label). No card lost the brand role. 58 gained a role word their own links prove (certifier, investor or owner).
Held back for you (5): Kitava, Roon and Suno carry the brand role and may or may not sell their own products; The Salad Project has no place on a guide yet; L'Impatience's place isn't on a guide yet. They're at the top of the review list.
How a move works. The card stays one record and keeps its links, products, notes and your calls. It still opens from its old Brand Desk link. Each desk shows it by where it lives now, and links back to the one card: Resources has a "From the brand cards" tab, the Media Desk and People have a "From the brand cards" line, and places are the guide places they were already linked to. Nothing was copied or deleted, and the cards' last-changed dates weren't touched.
Review in batches. The likely (550) and to-check (365) cards, the 5 held back, and anything you flag with the new "Not a brand" tap on the Brand Desk are in one list: Not a brand? · review in the Trawl Log, 25 at a time, with one tap for place, person, resource, media or keep as brand, and an Undo on each. Home Base To do has a "Not a brand? · review" row with the live count, the oldest date and the link. New cards that look like non-brands join the list each night; they're never moved without you.
Undo. Every move is logged with before and after. Any one can be put back from the review list, and the whole 25 Oct batch can be put back in one step if you ask.
Still to do. The Brand Desk list still shows the moved cards until its own session hides them (it's busy with the "Not a brand" tap tonight, so I left it alone). The older "Not a brand?" view on the Brand Desk still counts them too; the review list above is the working one.
The one table stays. You were right on 22 Sep: one home means every future tool can draw on it. What changes is how it's shown. The Brand Desk shows brands only, with products, research and catalogues untouched. One new desk shows everything else, with a tab for each role. A card with two roles is one record that appears in both tabs. The Brands tab opens the Brand Desk card.
What the records say today: there are 4,988 cards. 941 carry the brand role, and 2,767 carry no role at all; that's the biggest surprise (decision 2). 238 carry more than one role. The "Not a brand?" list flags 1,567: 659 clear, 550 likely and 358 to check. None of the 4,988 is published.
| Tab · who's in it (today) | The card shows | Research set | Public? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AllEvery card · 4,988 | Name, its roles, which tabs it sits in, how many links it has, and any To check items. | None of its own. | Never. |
| Brandsbrand role · 941 (plus decision 2) | Opens the Brand Desk card as it is today: Option A, products, Proof, People and ownership, Where it goes, Sales (read-only, from 24 Oct), History. | The full load-up and the product scan, unchanged. | Only through Put live on the Brand Desk (0 live today). |
| Houseshouse · 345 | The fashion week grid: the eleven questions, each fact with its source, date and state; the season appearances; on or off schedule. | The eleven-question disclosure set. | Never from here. If a house is also a brand, it goes live through the Brand Desk. |
| Owners and groupsowner 218 · group 36 | What it owns, what it's part of, its ownership type, people, and the brands under it with their verdicts. | Map the money, ownership half: parent, holdings, sources. | Never. Its name shows on brand cards as "who owns it". |
| Investors and fundersinvestor 170 · funder 48 | Investor type in your words (venture capital, corporate venture, private equity, angel, family office, hedge fund, institutional, founder's firm), its portfolio (780 investment links today), funds and their size, focus, partners, your verdict on the firm, and its Lab brief. | Map the money (from 3 Oct, Forerunner first). Funders: who they give to and on what terms. | Never. |
| Retailers and storesretailer 321 · store 133 · distributor 12 | What it stocks (linked brands), whether it has its own label, its locations (a store has a pin), how it sells, and which network pays. | Where it sells and what it stocks. A catalogue only for its own label. | Never from here. A store reaches readers as a place on a guide. |
| Platformsnew role · 46 flagged | The eleven sections from the Vette brief: model, consumer flow, economics, legal and money seats, data, paid placement, vetting, technology, people, comparisons, corrections. An empty section is a To check, never blank. | The platform set (Vette, Spring as the comparison). | Never. |
| Nonprofitsnew role · 121 flagged | Mission in its own words, its programmes, its funding (who funds it and whom it funds), people, and the brands it partners with or benefits. | Mission, programmes, funding, each with a source. | Never. |
| Certifierscertifier 59 · membership body 22 | What it certifies, its reading and weight (one reading feeds every brand that cites it), and the brands citing it. | The certifier reading queue that already exists. | Never as a card. Its reading shows on brand cards. |
| Makers and manufacturersmanufacturer 81 · mill 4 · grower 3 · factory 1 | Who it makes for (named-supplier links), where, what materials, and how open it is (established, opaque). | Supply-chain facts with sources. | Never. |
| Medianew role · 129 flagged | Who owns it, plus a link to its Media Desk title when it has one. | None here. The Media Desk researches titles. | Never from here. The Media Desk publishes. |
| Places to route164 places and venues · 6 events | Name, town, and the guide it would go to (the list names one for each, across 34 guides), with a "Send to the guide" button that waits for your OK. | None here. The guide side geocodes and checks it. | Only once it's on a guide and published there. |
| To sortno role, or flagged "check" | The reason it was flagged, its products if it has any, and one-tap role choices. | None until it has a role. | Never. |
Changes: the list, the counts and the search show cards with the brand role, plus the no-role cards (until decision 2 is settled). A card with other roles gets one line, "Also in the Directory: investor, owner", with a link. The "Not a brand?" button becomes "To sort" in the Directory. A new brand gets the brand role when it's made.
Stays the same: the Option A card and its tabs (seven since the Sales tab, 24 Oct). Products, Known for and New, the product scan, catalogues, Pull link. Research this brand and the 1am run for your asks. Verdicts and Put live. Every link to a card, so the team's bookmarks keep working (a non-brand card opened by its link still opens, with its Directory tab named).
For the team: nothing they do today moves or disappears. The only thing they'll notice is a smaller list.
Two to three weeks of sessions in all. That's an estimate, not a measure.
Gathered 23 Oct 2026 from the build notes, briefs, tool histories and the tool files, without opening any page in a browser. Brand and media counts were read from the live records this morning. Nothing was edited or moved to make this page; the one change is a tile pointing here from the design home.
Briefs without a link are working documents on your computer, in the CANAVA_COWORK folder, named as shown. Most are under CA_BUILD › Active (some in its Design Brief Package). The July and August brand briefs are in the Reports folder at the top of CANAVA_COWORK.
Unconfirmed: whether canava.co embeds any brand or Media Diet piece, whether guides other than Art Out East and the Kingston area are on canava.co, your brand card ruling from 20 Sep, and whether the 19 Aug search brief was approved.
Status line standard added 23 Oct; see the Workflow Map.