Map an application estate
HuffmanStacks LLC | Field notes | 2026-11-01

Find useful connections across a growing tool collection without creating duplicate records.

Describe the job of each tool
For each asset, record the audience, inputs, outputs, owner, and actual availability. Distinguish a design, a toolkit, a private workspace, and a released service.

Choose the authoritative record
Identify where client, document, task, and decision records belong. Other tools should reference that record through a defined interface.

Draw a bounded handoff
Describe the specific information crossing between two tools, its direction, permissions, and failure behavior. A related-project link is not an integration.

Start with one useful path
Implement and verify one complete handoff before adding a broad set of connections. Keep an export or recovery route for important information.

IN PRACTICE
LodeStar can remain the owner of an engagement record while a document tool works on a referenced artifact; another client database is unnecessary.

WORKING CHECKLIST
[ ] Describe the job of each tool: record the decision and its evidence.
[ ] Choose the authoritative record: record the decision and its evidence.
[ ] Draw a bounded handoff: record the decision and its evidence.
[ ] Start with one useful path: record the decision and its evidence.

General engineering guidance, not a certification or service agreement.
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