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+# Andon — Weak Point Visualisation
+
+A digital twin of the company's physical Lean/TPS project **Board**. Team members
+pull the **Andon** on a board section to file a **Defect** about the board itself;
+a dashboard aggregates those defects into a red-dot map that reveals the board's
+**Weak Points**, so the standard can be radically improved as it rolls out
+company-wide (Dantotsu).
+
+Two apps, one codebase, behind Google SSO (`@theodo.com`):
+
+- **`andon.apoena.dev`** — the reporting view: click an ASCII board section, pick
+  your project, describe the problem.
+- **`dashboard.andon.apoena.dev`** — the same board as a red-dot defect map, a
+  reverse-chronological feed, and verbatims in a modal.
+
+## Status
+
+**Design phase.** No code yet — the documentation below captures the agreed
+language, decisions, and goal-driven design. Build order is driven by the
+House of Quality: **F1 board definition → F2/F3 filing → F4/F5 weak-point map**.
+
+## Documentation
+
+| Document | What it holds |
+|----------|---------------|
+| [CONTEXT.md](./CONTEXT.md) | Ubiquitous language — the glossary (Board, Block, Section, Defect, Weak Point, Andon, Verbatim, Project, Reporter) that code, tests, and docs use verbatim. |
+| [DESIGN.md](./DESIGN.md) | Goal-driven design (QFD): Goals → Functions → How → Components, the importance/conflict matrices, the critical performance budget, and the trade-off ledger. |
+| [docs/house-of-quality.md](./docs/house-of-quality.md) | TikZ "House of Quality" — a visual rendering of the DESIGN.md matrices for review/slides. |
+| [docs/adr/0001](./docs/adr/0001-defects-are-about-the-board-not-project-work.md) | Why a Defect is feedback about the **Board artifact**, not the reporter's project work. |
+| [docs/adr/0002](./docs/adr/0002-attribution-is-transparent-not-blameless.md) | Why attribution is **transparent** rather than blameless. |
+
+## Stack
+
+Nuxt 3 (full-stack Vue) · SQLite + Drizzle on a persistent volume · Google
+OAuth (`hd=theodo.com` + server-side domain recheck) · Web Push (PWA) ·
+Docker Compose on Coolify.
+
+## Deployment notes
+
+- **SQLite needs a persistent Coolify volume** — without it, redeploys wipe all data.
+- **Don't trust the OAuth `hd` claim alone** — verify the email domain server-side.