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Thames Valley Gifts

Thames Valley Gifts is a registered Ontario business name of ChurchWiseAI LTD (Business Names Act, BIN 1001760694, registered 2026-09-28) — a regional multi-maker consignment gift hub with an AI front desk, planned as a new standalone brand host inside churchwiseai-web (/tvg/* → thamesvalleygifts.ca). It is not a church product and is not sold to churches.

Start here:

  • Architecture: research_notes/Thames Valley Gifts build/architecture_decision.md — the full design (Option D, "C done carefully"), data model, proof-then-pay sequence, HST rule, route map, AI front desk contract, risk register, and phased delivery plan.
  • Brand & legal registration: ai-company-os/brands/engraving/BRAND.md ("Hub name and legal registration" section) — BIN, purpose, domain status, Google Business Profile constraints.
  • Market/back-office research: research_notes/Thames Valley Gifts traffic and vendors/platform_operations.md (platform costs, GST/HST on consignment, Ontario PPSA/consumer-protection, shipping, insurance, CASL) and vendor_recruitment.md (Ontario collective terms, commission norms, maker complaints, recruitment sequence).
  • Policies: knowledge/data/policies.yaml → tvg: section (returns/final sale, shipping, pickup, tax, photo retention, email/CASL, legal identity line).
  • Acceptance specs (Phase 0, in progress): knowledge/acceptance/tvg-storefront.md, tvg-proof-to-pay.md, tvg-ops-and-payouts.md, tvg-ai-front-desk.md.
  • Feature registry: FEATURE_REGISTRY.md → "Thames Valley Gifts" section.
  • Founding maker agreement draft: maker-agreement-draft.md in this folder — plain-language Ontario true-consignment template. DRAFT, not legal advice; a lawyer must read it once before the first signature.

Per rules 14/17, no churchwiseai-web code is built until Phase 0 (specs, registry row, policies, and the founder decisions in the architecture memo §5) is closed.

Design source of truth (approved 2026-09-28)​

C:\dev\research_notes\Thames Valley Gifts build\main-street-v2.html ("Main Street v2", artifact https://claude.ai/artifact/Enp54sugiYWncJvQ198jDe). Two registers in one system: Shop (bright, product-first) and Keepsake (quiet, for memorial/baptism/ordination/wedding). Signature devices: storefront-row navigation with awning on the active department, town maker stamp on every product. Type: Libre Franklin (display), Source Sans 3 (body); EB Garamond and Pinyon Script only as customer-selectable lettering. Status labels are hangtags. Tokens are defined on :root in that file (light + dark); implementers copy them, they do not redesign.