Vision & Strategy
Why CMMD exists. What we believe. Strategic frame.
Why CMMD exists, what we believe, what we’re optimizing for. The durable artifacts that survive every roadmap revision.
The pages in this section
Section titled “The pages in this section”| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| The 30-Second Rule | The single product principle that overrides everything |
| Product Principles (pending) | The 5–7 beliefs that shape every decision |
Sidekick Product Principles (pending — see .claude/rules/sidekick-product-principles.md) | The AI-specific design philosophy |
| North Star Metrics (pending — see Adoption Pulse dashboard) | The handful of numbers we actually optimize for |
Mission & Manifesto (pending — see docs/mission.md) | Founder narrative, the “why now” |
The one-line vision
Section titled “The one-line vision”CMMD is an operating system for attention — one focused place for life and work, with a sidekick that’s yours, that connects, clarifies, and acts.
What we believe
Section titled “What we believe”- One screen beats fifteen. Tool sprawl is the productivity tax of the 2020s.
- AI must be yours. Generic copilots are commodity. Personalised memory + actions are not — see App — Sidekick.
- Attention > features. The product wins by giving time back, not by having more buttons.
- Calm interfaces. No notification spam, no productivity guilt, no “9 unread.”
- Privacy is product. Workspace data is sacred. Models on private data must be local-capable — see Privacy & Data Handling and ADR-0005 Apex.
- EOS-aware, not EOS-prescribed. Support 90.io-style operating cadence without forcing it — see App — Strategy & Goals.
- Built like we mean it. Type-safe, tested, measurable, observable — see Engineering Principles.
Strategic frame
Section titled “Strategic frame”| Layer | Where we play |
|---|---|
| For who | Founders, operators, small teams (3–15) running real businesses — see GTM → Positioning |
| Against | Tool fragmentation — Notion + Slack + Linear + Calendar + CRM + Accounting |
| Wedge | Sidekick that’s yours, in every app, with full context — see Sidekick Routing Pipeline |
| Moat | Personalised memory + actions, learned over time, hard to migrate away |
| Don’t play | Pure consumer, single-feature apps, enterprise platform commitments |
Related
Section titled “Related”- The 30-Second Rule — the principle that overrides everything
- Roadmap — how the vision becomes shipped work
- App Catalog — every app, judged against the vision
- GTM → Positioning — how the vision shows up externally