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Fleet map — current state

The one-page map of how the SLW / Rivent fleet fits together. Update this in the same commit as any decision that changes it. Last verified 2026-08-04.

The portfolio model — Understand / Act / Say

The rooms (user-facing apps)

Room Job Notes
Ford Research engine room — ingestion, breakdowns, dossiers, sector pages Doors: ford@rivent.dev · upload · machine drop
Terminal The daily flow — news, newsletters, digests Sole news collector; publishes durable residue to Ford
Podcast1 Podcast intelligence Standalone processing; publishes briefs/facts/mentions to Ford
DealFlow The companies & VCs book Registry badges live
LP Flow The LPs & investors book Registry badges live
Quill The writing workbench — our voice, our documents, receipts ex-Hub
Slide Library Our own reusable deck slides Separate from Ford's key-slide exhibits
TaskFlow Shawn's personal workflow app Donor of the engine core; never the center

The internal tools (not rooms)

Tool Job
Webster Entity spine — links every app's people/firm records to one entity; links, never merges
Dewey Document substrate — one ingest, one embedding space, one search API (Ford · Quill · Slide Library)

How intelligence flows

flowchart TD
  subgraph sources [What comes in]
    EM[Email · ford at rivent.dev]
    UP[Upload in Ford]
    MD[Machine drop API]
    TW[Terminal - relevance-gated residue]
    PC[Podcast - briefs, facts, mentions]
  end
  FORD[Ford - archive, classify, extract — artifacts + datapoints + signals]
  EM --> FORD
  UP --> FORD
  MD --> FORD
  TW --> FORD
  PC --> FORD
  WEB{{Webster - entity spine — links, never merges}}
  FORD --> WEB
  DF[DealFlow - companies and VCs]
  LP[LP Flow - LPs and investors]
  WEB --- DF
  WEB --- LP
  DEWEY[(Dewey - document substrate)]
  FORD -.reads.-> DEWEY
  QUILL[Quill - writing workbench] -.reads.-> DEWEY
  SL[Slide Library] -.reads.-> DEWEY

Full annotated version: the intelligence-flow initiative and its one-page diagram.

Fleet rules (the ones that bind every app)

  1. Every fact carries its source + as-of date — enforced at the database level in Ford.
  2. Derived flags (staleness, deltas, evidence level) are computed by code, never asserted by a model.
  3. Entities resolve against Webster — link, never duplicate.
  4. Propose-then-approve for anything that writes into a CRM book; confidence + amber dot instead of gates for filings.
  5. Every artifact carries a visibility level (public-research · internal · confidential-portco · confidential-diligence); confidential material is excluded from Quill outputs and general search by construction.
  6. Code ships branch → PR → green CI in every app repo; DB/schema and deploy config route to Shawn via CODEOWNERS.

Repos

Fleet product repos: rivent-dev/ — dev-portal · Terminal · Podcast1 · dealflow-app · LPCRM3 (LP Flow) · slide-library · slw-idea-atlas (Ford app) · slw-workspace-hub (Quill). Engine & tools: SKO70SV/ — slw-ford · slw-webster · slw-dewey. Personal: TF-Flow (TaskFlow).

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