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How we work · one system

Four places.
One simple logic.

Everything you make lives in one of four places — each named for what you do there. Learn this once and you'll always know where things go, and so will everyone else.

Build Store Show  ·  make it → save it → everyone sees it

The four places

🔨
Your laptop

Build

Where you make things with your Claude. Your workbench — messy is fine, it's yours.

# e.g.
ads-dashboard/
ticket-templates/
~/AI-work/Ongoing/
📦
GitHub

Store

Where finished work is saved with full history. Say "publish" and your Claude puts it here.

# the shared repo
the-brands-den/
  workspace
🪟
The cloud

Show

Where the whole team sees each other's dashboards — behind our Google login, always live.

# you're here now
dashboards.
brands-den.com
📓
Optional · personal

Journal

Your own notes & ideas, just for you. Handy, not required. Jim uses Obsidian for this.

# if you want one
~/AI-brain/
  Daily/

Is my work safe? (great question, Fabian 🙌)

🛡️ Yes — safer than on your laptop alone.

Publishing doesn't replace your work with one fragile cloud copy. It makes three copies, and nothing is ever truly deleted.

So: keep working locally like you do — that's copy #1 for free. One honest note: version history only protects what you've already published, so if you're deep in unsaved local work, publish now and then. Otherwise you're covered on every side.

Signing in — who sees what

One address, two levels. Everything sits behind our login, so nothing is visible to anyone who hasn't signed in — even if they have the link.

👥
Everyone on the team

Team dashboards

Inventory, POs, ads, ranks — the everyday dashboards. One step to get in:

# sign in
1 · enter your @brands-den.com email
2 · get a code by email → paste it
✓ you're in
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Jim only · in progress

/restricted

Finance, OPEX & private numbers — Jim's space while it's still being set up. Same email login plus a second code from an authenticator app (once a day), so the sensitive figures stay locked down.

# extra lock
email code  +  authenticator code

Keep your laptop clean too

Same logic works on your own laptop. Instead of files scattered everywhere, one tidy home so that after a crash — or just on a Monday — you open Finder and instantly see what you're working on.

Three buckets, that's it: what you're working on now, stuff you look things up in, and done/old out of sight.

⏳ Jim's setting his up now — a ready-made prompt for you is coming soon, so your Claude does the whole tidy-up for you.
~/
├── AI-work/
│  ├── Ongoing/  ← now
│  ├── Resources/ ← look up
│  └── Archive/  ← done
└── Desktop, Downloads …
The whole workflow, in one line:

Tell your Claude what to build → look at it in your browser → say "publish" → it's live for the team in ~2 minutes.

New here? Start at dashboards.brands-den.com/sop · Questions? Ask your Claude first, then Slack.