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LaunchKits

A composable business operations library that ships as the spine and nervous system of the next operator's company. CRM as the spine. A bridge system as the nervous system. Templates as the skin. Diagnostics as the immune system. Three free cores plus 20 free snippets as the distribution weapon. Five revenue paths: free tier as funnel, modules ($29-49), packages ($149-199), Pro subscription ($14/mo), AI add-on ($9/mo per module), custom build service ($499+).

How the Garden philosophy shows up here

LaunchKits is Garden commerce in production. The free tier is structurally larger than what most competitors charge for: three full cores (Auth and Core Framework, Site, Connect totaling 117 files) plus 20 cross-cutting snippets, all under permissive licensing. The constraint is that every transaction must improve the buyer. Lock-in as a business model is architecturally impossible because the buyer owns the code outright. The competitive moat is depth and composition, not extraction.

01

The four-tier module library

Tier 0 (Foundation, free): Auth and Core Framework, extracted from ShipKit. The skeleton every operator needs first.

Tier 1 (Universal modules): Invoicing and Estimates, CRM, Booking, Reviews and Reputation, Communication Hub, Payments, Analytics. The cross-industry layer.

Tier 2 (Industry modules): Project and Task Management, Job and Work Order, Staff Scheduling and Dispatch, Client Intake and Forms, Loyalty and Memberships, Inventory, Menu, Property, Estimates, Doc Vault. The vertical layer.

Tier 3 (Growth modules): AI Assistant, Marketing Automation, Multi-Location, API Hub, Storefront Builder. The scale layer.

11 industry packages assemble the modules into shipped products: AgencyOS, ServicePro, StudioKit, ConstructKit, LearnKit, PropertyKit, LegalKit, EventKit, FleetKit, PetKit, FoodKit. Each runs through the Assembler script with full homepage, dashboard, and diagnostics wired.

02

The kit x template marketplace

The /library page renders a kit x template matrix (5 templates x 5 featured kits = 25 slots, 5 live and 20 coming-soon). The /marketplace browses kits and tools on a unified shelf. The TEMPLATE-AUTHORING.md spec codifies the 6-layer template architecture so third-party builders can author against a stable contract.

Builder concierge funnel runs through /api/builder/submit, /account/builds, an email pipeline, a 12-state submission machine (builder_submissions + submission_events tables), and an email-based admin gate. Coming-soon flares throughout for Lemon Squeezy charge-at-submission, auto-validation worker, Cloudflare preview deploys, template lint, builder template-picker live-swap, request-changes / refund / auto-deliver / daily-digest.

03

Clearwater diagnostic pipeline

The Clearwater diagnostic pattern serves as the immune system across the kit catalog. Pipeline is at 13 tiers / 60+ checks. Phase 6 added 7 business invariants with owner field threaded through CheckResult and surfaced in regression alerts as "Routing to @vincent." Phase 8 added 6 kit-bundle health checks including HEAD-probe of recent delivered download_urls + assembly failure-rate counts + verification pass-rate trend. Phase 4 v1 multi-context auth covers anon vs service-role with 7 RLS scoping diff checks.

Clearwater 2.0 is being scoped as a separate productized framework at L:/Clearwater/, the natural productization of the diagnostic engine into a Health Pack any kit buyer can run against their own deployment.

04

The free-cores moat

LaunchKits Core (76 files), Site (22 files), Connect (19 files), plus 20 free snippets across Auth / Payments / Email / Data / UI / Infrastructure. Giving away more than competitors charge for via the free cores creates inevitable comparison-driven evangelism.

The pivot rationale: the boilerplate market is saturated with $199 auth + payments scaffolds. LaunchKits has 43 modules of operational depth across 10+ industries, so the differentiation lives at the depth and composition layer, not at the auth-and-billing layer. The free cores teach operators what depth feels like before any paid module is sold.

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