Updated 25 Oct · Sales tab, Note to us, work-through and research at up to 8 cards noted
Design mock · v2 · nothing here saves · unlisted
The brand card: options
Updated 23 Oct · in 30 secondsYou picked Option A, and it's live on the Brand Desk as your backend card. This is your working card, not the card readers see; that card's brief is on Design Status.
Live today: a large lead photo with the brand beside it. Four status tiles: Added · Research · Products · Live. Five actions: + Add product · Research this brand (shows Refresh research once it's been researched) · Ask for a product scan · Put live (or Take it down) · Preview. A status strip under the top bar shows Added · Research · Live, with Put live and Preview. Six tabs stay at the top while you scroll: Your calls · Products · Proof · People and ownership · Where it goes · History. Live, 25 Oct: a seventh tab, Sales, sits between Where it goes and History (read-only, from GSOS, 24 Oct). Every card also has a Note to us box, the name and website edit in place with a Saved tick, and a work-through list from Home Base moves you card to card without leaving the Desk. The Directory plan (24 Oct, written, not built) would have this desk show brands only.
The options and drawings below are kept as the design record. The notes marked "Live, 23 Oct" say where today's card differs from them.
Every part stays. What changes: one header with the five things she does (Add · Ask for research · Ask for a product scan · Take live · View status); the one-offs added over time get plain names, overlaps are merged, and everything sits in one order: identity → status and actions → products → proof → people and ownership → where it goes → history. Panels sit side by side, not full width, and the tabs at the top read as tabs and stay put while she scrolls. The Endery's real data, read 23 Oct.
0 · Where a brand comes from and where it goes
Who does each step: hers (only she does it), automatic (runs on its own), ours (a session or the nightly job does it, she checks).
Live, 23 Oct · the nightly research queue and the product scanResearch runs once a night at 1am and takes at most 5 cards, in this order (25 Oct: the brand research job now takes up to 8 cards a run, same order; it saves facts only through the new save function, which fills empty fields and never touches your verdict, rating or voice):
Your asks first, newest tap first. "Research this brand" or "Refresh research" gets the full load-up (founders and owners, outside ratings, made and sourced, repair and resale, where it sells, search words, up to 6 photos, up to 50 products). Product scans you've asked for wait in this same first group. Your asks never expire.
Then brands that score on your signals, highest first: your F*ck Yes or Yes But, favourited products, products used in recipes, cast in edits, live sales, touched by you this week.
Cleanup sweeps and the wider backlog stay parked. They don't run unless you ask.
The product scan path: you tap "Ask for a product scan", the button reads "Scan queued · date", and the night's run refreshes products only: Known for and New, up to 50, nothing removed, discontinued ones noted. Then the card is marked scanned. Tap the button again to take the ask back. A scan doesn't trigger any other research. Where you see it: the Research tile and strip on the card, and a Home Base line for each card you queued for research. A product scan doesn't have its own Home Base line yet (proposed above, not built). Last night (1am, 23 Oct): 5 cards taken. 1 filled (Crapeyewear) and 4 skipped because they're on hold (Jamie Haller, COS, Tubby Todd, Blundstone). Queue this evening: 99 cards. 1 is your ask from today and 98 scored on your signals. No product scans are waiting.
0b · The brand card and the people side: outreach, tracking, Mesh, email
How a brand connects to the people and conversations around it. Plan only: Mesh and her email weren't opened.
1 · Every piece, named and placed
What's on today's card, its new plain name, and its job. merged marks pieces that become one.
New name
What it does
Today it's…
Header · identity
Name, photo, verdict
Who the brand is and her call on it (New and Preowned), set right there.
Hero + "Your calls" section merged
Tags and keywords
What it is and what people search for. Shown under the name.
Tags and keywords section
Header · status and actions
Status
Added · Research · Products · Live, at a glance.
Status strip, "Where it is", research line under it merged
Actions
+ Add product · Ask for research · Ask for a product scan (new) · Put live · Preview.
Top-bar button, Put live in the strip, + Add product in Products
Open questions
One tray of things waiting on her or research: what research couldn't confirm, what she flagged to look into (with her why), suggestions held, words waiting.
To check, Investigate, held suggestions, "Words waiting" merged
Tab 1 · Products
Products
Its products with Known for / New, favourites, links and Pull link, filters, Find products.
Products section, Pull link, Links to pull (header) stays as the list across brands
Tab 2 · Proof
Outside ratings
What others say: Commons sources (B Corp, Good On You…), certifications it holds, and any other outside validation, each with its date and link.
Who makes it, what it's made of, where, named suppliers: each marked Established or Opaque.
Disclosure, supply chain facts merged
Care and afterlife
Repair, resale, take-back and how it sells (own shop, stockists).
Selling, "How it sells", resale fact merged
Our read
CANAVA's own values read and the research reasoning behind the verdict.
Values ratings, Read
Tab 3 · People and ownership
People
Founders, makers, collaborators.
People section
Ownership and money
Who owns and funds it, parent company, investors.
Ownership section
Tab 4 · Where it goes
Where it goes
Every place it's used or headed: edits and mixes, stories, gift lists, sales (GSOS, muted), embeds.
Where it goes next, Cast into a story, Gift list flag, sale chip, Sales muted, Copy embed merged
Tab 5 · History
History
What changed, who did it, and research runs, newest first.
History section
1b · Team-ready: keeping it hers when others help
Proposals only, nothing built. Today every tool writes as one desk account; once others work on her side, each person signs in and gets a role.
Who
Can
Can't
Geren (owner)
Everything: verdicts (New and Preowned), Put live and Take down, her voice fields (her read, tagline, the story lines), favourites, final approval of anyone's suggestion.
nothing locked
Editor
Add brands and products, fix facts, add photos (as placeholders), ask for research or a scan, flag questions, suggest a verdict or a voice line (held for her).
Set a verdict, put live, clear a photo for public use, change her voice fields.
Researcher / session
Fill empty facts with sources, add products and Commons rows, add To check questions.
Work outreach and partnership records, link a contact to a brand, log a touch and its status, see tracking numbers (clicks, sales, earnings) per brand.
See her Mesh or her email; change commission settings; make links in her ShopMy account.
Editor / Researcher
See a brand's contacts (names and roles) and its outreach status on the card.
See message contents, private notes, or Mesh.
Geren only
Mesh (her contacts, LinkedIn), her email and inbox, ShopMy account and payouts, private client lists, deciding which contact goes onto a brand card.
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Locked to her alone
Verdicts · Put live / Take down · clearing a photo for public use · her voice fields · favourites · Pull link · deleting or archiving a brand. Each is checked in the database, not just hidden on the page, so no tool or person can get round it.
History and undo
Every change is already logged (who, what, before and after) and shows in History. Proposed: each line gets an Undo that puts the old value back (logged too); suggestions from others wait in Open questions until she accepts; a daily line on Home Base lists what others changed.
2 · Three layouts, same header and tabs
Every option has the same header (identity, four status tiles, five actions, open questions) and the same sticky tab bar: solid navy for the open tab, a clear tab shape, counts on each, in the new order.
Option A · Tabs, two-column panels
Why: one tab at a time, and inside each tab the related panels sit side by side in two columns, so a tab fits on one screen and nothing is a long scroll.
The EnderyF*ck YesYes ButNot YetHard No
Style · knitwear, made in Lima · theendery.com · style
Open questions0 to confirm0 flagged by you0 suggestions+ Flag something to look into
Products50Proof9 factsPeople and ownershipWhere it goesHistorytabs stay at the top while you scroll
Outside ratings 10 sources apply to style · checked dates on each
Fair TradeSays Peruvian Fair Trade since 2018 (its FAQ) · not checked yet
Good On Younot checked yet
B Corpnot checked yet
OEKO-TEX · GOTSnot checked yet
+6 more1% for the Planet, Cradle to Cradle, Regenerative Organic, Bluesign, Ethical Consumer, Fair Trade
Made and sourced from its own pages, 22 Oct
Who makes itESTABLISHED50+ knitwear workshops and family businesses in Lima
Made ofESTABLISHEDnew yarns and select deadstock fibres from Peruvian mills
Made inESTABLISHEDLima, Peru, every piece
Named supplierESTABLISHEDHarkened · OPAQUEindividual mills
Care and afterlife
Repair · resaleOPAQUEno repair, resale or take-back found
Where it sellsOwn shop theendery.com · wholesale stockists
Our read
VerdictF*ck Yes, yours
Valuesnot read yet · research tonight
Products tab is a six-across grid with its filters on one line; People and ownership is two panels side by side; Where it goes is three small panels (edits and stories · gift lists · sales and embeds).
Option B · Tabs as jumps over a grouped dashboard
Why: all groups visible at once as a compact grid of panels (three across), each folded to its headline; the tabs jump to a group and light up as she scrolls, so she sees the whole brand without a long column.
Products50ProofPeople and ownershipWhere it goesHistorytap a tab to jump · it lights up as you scroll
Products 16 Known for · 34 New · 0 favourites · 50 need a link
All 50Known for 16New 34FavouritesNeeds linkPull link
Known for
Albers Sweater Tee
$168
Known for
Bauhaus Sweater Tee
$168
Known for
Vera Fairisle Sweater
$258
Known for
Calder Sweater Tee
$168
Known for
Wiggle Stripe Tee
$168
Known for
Sonia Sweater Tee
$178
Show all 50 ▾
Proof 9 facts
Outside ratings10 apply · none checked
Made and sourcedLima workshops · 4 established
Care and afterlifeOPAQUEno repair or resale
People and ownership
Peopleno founder named yet
Ownershipgrew out of Harkened · OPAQUEfounder
Where it goes
Edits, storiesnone yet · Cast into a story
Gift listsnot on one
Sales, embedsno sale · Copy embed
Open questions
nothing open · + Flag something to look into
History newest first
23 Octresearch asked by you
22 Oct50 products added (catalogue)
Each panel opens in place to its full detail; the rest of the dashboard stays where it is.
Option C · Status rail, tabs, two columns
Why: status, actions and open questions stay pinned in a left rail on a laptop, while the tabs and two-column panels fill the rest; on a phone the rail folds into Option A's header.
Products50ProofPeople and ownershipWhere it goesHistory
Edits and stories
Mixesnot in a mix · Add to a mix
Storiesnone · Cast into a story
Gift lists
Flagnot on a gift list · Add to a gift list
Sales
GSOSno sale on · + Add a sale
Mutednot muted
Embeds and pages
Brand pagePreview ↗ · not live
EmbedCopy embed (beta)
Needs the card a little wider on a laptop (about 1000px); the rail stays put as she scrolls.
Recommendation
Option A: tabs with two-column panels. It keeps the tabs she likes (now clearly tabs), puts the five actions and status above everything, and each tab fits a screen because related panels sit side by side. B is best if she wants to see the whole brand at once; C suits laptop work but means two layouts to keep up.
To build after she picks: the header (verdict inline, four status tiles, five actions, Open questions tray); the new "Ask for a product scan" (a scan mark on the brand, a line in the nightly job, a Home Base line); the merges in the table above; sticky tabs in the new order; Change and Archive into ⋯.
Live, 23 Oct: you picked Option A, and it's built on the Brand Desk with the header, four status tiles, five actions, "Ask for a product scan" (its queue mark and its turn in the nightly job) and sticky tabs. Where the live card differs from this plan: there's a sixth tab, Your calls, first. Open questions sits inside Your calls rather than as a tray in the header. The product scan has no Home Base line yet. I couldn't confirm that Change and Archive moved into ⋯.