Summary

A long, substantive evening/overnight session producing the core INHERIT/TT strategic document stack. Key strategic decisions made:

  1. InheritKit as Tier 2 commercial SDK (AGPL+dual commercial licence). Absorbs the dropped Henry product’s workflow orchestration logic. Rich builds this directly after Phase 0 schema hygiene.

  2. Three-partner advisory model (succession + tax + faith, each with capability flags at individual level). Replaces the earlier two-tier tech + faith model.

  3. Three-track partner badging — INHERIT Contributor (open-standard recognition), InheritKit Certified [Specialty] (commercial validation), TT Partner (contractual). Same professionals hold multiple badges per context.

  4. InheritKit-first principle — when in doubt between Tier 0 (Apache schema) and Tier 2 (AGPL InheritKit), default to InheritKit. Apache is irrevocable for published versions; AGPL → Apache is trivial.

  5. Henry and Command Centre both dropped as products. Henry’s logic absorbed into InheritKit + UX into MFI/InheritWills. Command Centre preserved as internal operational concept only.

  6. MFI differentiator is “takes into account” — integrated estate plan across succession + tax + faith, not three separate plans. Faith modules in Phase 1.

  7. E&W succession partner switched — MLP Law (via Jane Hunter Robinson) instead of IDR Law.

  8. InheritKit name locked, inheritkit.com purchased. Dedicated github.com/inheritkit/ org planned.

  9. Full scoping exercise before InheritKit spec confirmation — Rich overruled the partial-first suggestion. ~11 months of scoping across 50+ jurisdictions before build starts. MFI launch target: late 2028.

Commits delivered

24+ commits on main. Final commit ecb13a2 — InheritKit v1.10 + scoping framework v1.0.

Spec state at handoff

SpecVersionPath
Roadmapv3.7docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-16-inherit-tt-roadmap-ideas-design.md
InheritKit Designv1.10docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-16-inheritkit-design.md
InheritKit Scoping Frameworkv1.0docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-17-inheritkit-scoping-framework.md
E&W Schema Auditv1.2docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-16-ew-schema-audit.md
Governance Charterv2.2standard/inherit-governance-charter.md
Partner Modelv2.3tt-products/orgs/partner-model.md
Partnership Targetsv1.1tt-products/orgs/partnership-targets.md
TT Brand Architecturev2.4tt-brand-architecture.md
Viotti Commercial Proposalv1.1standard/orgs/sourcemeta/viotti-commercial-proposal.md

Self-correction moments worth remembering

  1. Apache 2.0 lock-in overstatement — wrote “binding going forward” / “cannot be made unilaterally” in charter v2.1; Rich flagged; corrected in v2.2 with accurate “time-bounded contractual” framing. Triggered audit pass across other specs.

  2. Lane 5 scope expansion omission — commit message claimed a Lane 5 update that didn’t actually happen; caught on self-review; fixed in follow-on commit.

  3. Partner model partial commit — second commit on MLP Law change covered only 4 of 9 files because Edit calls failed on files not previously Read; caught and completed in follow-on.

Hand-off to fresh session

Rich wants to pilot the first scoping record under the scoping framework, applied to E&W succession. The pilot is the natural next step after landing the framework tonight. Fresh context recommended to avoid noise from this long session.

See docs/superpowers/scoping/pilot-handoff-prompt.md for the paste-in prompt.

Rich’s emphasis at session end

  • Interoperability is his passion — badges 3 (FAIR), 4 (conformance suite), 6 (public register) are his priority from the quick-wins list
  • He wants InheritKit prioritised above badges
  • He wants full jurisdictional scoping before confirming InheritKit spec
  • He explicitly reinforced the InheritKit-first bias: “we must ensure we continue to put things into inheritkit over the standard, when in doubt — it is far easier to move them into the inherit standard at a later date, than move out of inherit standard”