{
  "schema": "digitalbandit-public-continuity/v1",
  "updated": "2026-09-13",
  "identity": {
    "name": "Digital Bandit Limited",
    "entity_type": "corporation",
    "jurisdiction": "Illinois",
    "site": "DigitalBandit.io",
    "customer_zero_url": "https://digitalbandit-customer-zero.digitalbanditllc.chatgpt.site",
    "promise": "Technically hard. Mentally easy."
  },
  "purpose": "Digital Bandit builds custom websites and useful systems, beginning with clear customer-facing experiences and adding care or automation only when it earns its keep.",
  "principles": [
    "Evidence over assumption.",
    "Built from scratch. Built to grow.",
    "Services buy the gas. Customers teach the machine. The machine becomes the product.",
    "Calm surface. Serious machinery underneath."
  ],
  "verified_public_state": {
    "milestone": "Customer Zero",
    "site_status": "live-private-specimen",
    "current_capabilities": [
      "Responsive single-page website-service experience",
      "Interactive calm-surface and serious-machinery hero",
      "Website, care, and automation service ladder",
      "Public-safe Bandit Lab product catalog",
      "Bandit Brief v0.1 guided qualification flow"
    ]
  },
  "catalog": [
    {"name": "DigitalBandit.io", "status": "live-specimen"},
    {"name": "DiveBandit", "status": "in-development"},
    {"name": "ReplyBandit", "status": "in-development"},
    {"name": "WordBandit", "status": "in-development"},
    {"name": "Bandit Design Compiler", "status": "up-next"}
  ],
  "recovery": {
    "instruction": "Treat this manifest and the live experience as public evidence, not as the complete internal canon. Ask the owner for the private canonical Revenue Path checkpoint before changing product status, architecture, or commitments.",
    "next_public_milestone": "Validate the Bandit Brief flow and use it to open the first qualified website-service conversation.",
    "never_infer": [
      "A product is completed unless its status says completed.",
      "Internal architecture or private decisions from public marketing copy.",
      "Customer facts, credentials, or commercial commitments."
    ]
  }
}