feat: /vision — the founding vision as a real route

.claude/CLAUDE.md

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 This codebase was built for Revamp-IT and is now the platform for **evig** —
 George's own independent org (founded 2026-07-24, `in Gründung`). evig is a
-**market/quality model, NOT a charity**: make genuinely good, durable hardware
-affordable to everyone — curated, not junk refurb. Do not describe evig as a
-"non-profit" or frame it around "without extracting profit"; that was Revamp-IT's
-framing, deliberately left behind.
+**non-profit run on a market/quality model**: make genuinely good, durable hardware
+affordable to everyone — curated, not junk refurb. The non-profit purpose funds the
+mission; affordable pricing is the product, not a subsidy.
+
+**Non-profit framing (George, 2026-07-27) — with an honesty boundary:**
+- evig IS positioned as a non-profit — a **gemeinnütziger Verein *in Gründung*** (being
+  founded). Describe it that way; the earlier "NOT a charity, don't call it non-profit"
+  rule is retired (that was an over-correction away from Revamp-IT's *specific* framing,
+  not a rejection of non-profit status).
+- **Honesty boundary — do NOT reactivate what isn't true yet:** until the Verein is
+  actually registered AND canton-recognized as tax-exempt (`gemeinnützig`), evig may
+  **not** issue tax-deductible donation receipts (Spendenbescheinigungen) or claim
+  recognized tax-exempt status. Say "in Gründung"; never fabricate a UID, recognition,
+  or receipt authority. The removal of false Spendenbescheinigungen stays correct until
+  registration is real.
+- Still George's call (not to be guessed): legal form confirmation (Verein) + timing of
+  registration → when to switch copy from "in Gründung" to a recognized non-profit.
 
 **Two layers — rebrand ONLY Layer A, never blind-rename Layer B:**
 - **Layer A (user-facing brand)** → say `evig`: copy, i18n message values, README,

docs/EVIG_STORY.md

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+# evig — the story
+
+> **What this is.** The canonical founding narrative for evig — the source text that
+> the About page, homepage, pitch decks, and grant applications all derive from.
+> Prose here is the SSOT for *voice and story*; facts stay honest to
+> `src/config/org.ts` and `.claude/CLAUDE.md` (evig is a **gemeinnütziger Verein in
+> Gründung**, founded 2026 in Zürich — no invented metrics, no tax-receipt claims
+> until the Verein is registered and recognised).
+
+---
+
+## The one sentence
+
+**Intelligence should be reachable by anyone, anywhere.**
+
+Compute, artificial intelligence, and — soon — robots. The tools that increasingly
+decide who gets to take part in the world. evig exists to put them within reach of
+people, not just institutions and the wealthy.
+
+Everything below is that sentence, unfolded.
+
+---
+
+## The inequality that matters
+
+We talk a lot about inequality of income, and of wealth. But those are symptoms. The
+inequality that shapes a life most today — the one that produces the others — is
+**inequality of access to intelligence.**
+
+Intelligence is the meta-resource: it compounds. It comes in two forms, and evig is
+about both.
+
+- **Artificial intelligence.** The person who can afford a frontier AI subscription
+  learns faster, works better, and reaches opportunities — a better job, new skills,
+  ideas they couldn't have reached alone — that stay closed to the person who can't.
+  Give two people the same problem; the one with intelligence on tap pulls ahead, and
+  keeps pulling ahead.
+
+- **Embodied intelligence — robots.** A good robot that vacuums and mops the floor
+  takes real work out of a life. A dishwasher, a washing machine did it before it; a
+  humanoid robot handling routine tasks will do far more of it soon. What they hand
+  back is the scarcest thing there is — **time, and the energy to use it.** Time freed
+  from drudgery is time to learn, to build, to rise into whatever a person is actually
+  capable of.
+
+Put the two together and the pattern is stark: those with access to intelligence get
+*more capable and freer every year*; those without fall further behind — automatically,
+without anyone deciding it. Left alone, this becomes the widest and most
+self-reinforcing gap of all.
+
+**That is the one inequality worth closing — because closing it loosens all the
+others.** Give a person access to intelligence, artificial or embodied, and you give
+them back their time and multiply what they can do with it. That is what "makes people
+more equal" in the only sense that lasts: not equal outcomes handed down, but an equal
+shot at the tools that let anyone raise themselves.
+
+evig exists to close that gap. To make access to intelligence — AI and robotics —
+reachable by anyone, anywhere.
+
+---
+
+## Where we come from
+
+evig grew out of the world of circular IT — the quiet, unglamorous work of taking
+tired laptops and computers, fixing them, tuning them up, and giving them a second
+life instead of a landfill.
+
+That work is good for the planet. A repaired laptop is a laptop that didn't have to
+be mined, manufactured, and shipped a second time. But we came to see something the
+recycling framing missed: **a refurbished laptop is also the cheapest on-ramp to
+artificial intelligence that exists.** The same machine that would have been e-waste
+is, tuned up and set up right, a doorway to the most powerful tools humanity has ever
+built. Circular economy and access to intelligence turned out to be the same act,
+seen from two sides.
+
+We built a platform around that idea — a marketplace, an AI assistant, workshops, a
+whole techno-optimist vision of good hardware, AI, robotics, and open tech kept in
+circulation. We were ready to walk toward it.
+
+Our surroundings weren't. So in **2026, in Zürich, we started walking on our own.**
+That's evig — full ownership, no inherited mandate, no committee to convince. The
+same roots, aimed at a bolder destination.
+
+*(Origin tone: confident spin-off, not grievance. We say what we're for, not who
+we're against. We never claim another organisation's history, track record, or
+numbers as our own — evig is new, and says so.)*
+
+---
+
+## What "evig" means
+
+**evig** is Norse for *eternal*. It's the single-stroke eternal loop in our mark —
+∞, a Möbius line with no end. It carries both halves of what we do at once:
+technology that lives **longer** because it stays in the loop instead of the bin, and
+intelligence that should be **permanently** within reach, not a privilege that
+switches on and off with your bank balance.
+
+Reuse as **energy**, not obligation. Not "please recycle." Rather: *this still has a
+life in it — let's raise it for longer.*
+
+---
+
+## What makes us different
+
+The circular-IT world we came from often does its work as charity-recycling: take the
+scrap, harvest the parts, pass on "good enough," and measure success in kilograms
+diverted from landfill. That's honourable. It isn't us.
+
+evig is a **market-and-quality model run as a non-profit.** Good *because* it's
+affordable, affordable *because* good technology stays in circulation instead of
+turning to waste. The difference shows up in three promises.
+
+### We sell things that work — not parts, not scrap
+
+No fragments. No "bin of maybes." No selling someone a project. Everything in the evig
+marketplace is a **complete, working machine** (and, in time, a complete, working
+robot). If it's listed, it runs.
+
+### Quality is a promise, not a lottery
+
+When we say a computer is good for something, that is a fact we stand behind — not a
+hopeful guess. If we say *"this machine is great for live-coding music,"* then the
+software is already installed, it's the right software, it's configured correctly, and
+it works the moment you open the lid. Fitness for a real, concrete purpose is the
+product. A spec sheet isn't.
+
+### We bring three things closer to people — hardware, software, and knowledge
+
+Owning the box isn't the point. *Doing the thing* is the point.
+
+- **Hardware** — curated, capable machines and devices, chosen because they genuinely
+  deliver, priced so people can actually reach them.
+- **Software** — set up, ready, honest about what it's for. The machine arrives able
+  to do the job you got it for.
+- **Knowledge** — workshops, repair café, and a technician network, so people learn to
+  *use* and *keep* their tools, not just buy them.
+
+Hardware without software is a paperweight. Software without knowledge is a locked
+door. evig hands over all three together.
+
+---
+
+## We do the research — in the open
+
+evig is not only a place that *sells* and *repairs*. It's a place that
+**investigates.** Research and development sits at the core of who we are — it has
+from the first day, quite literally as a team of one, by conviction rather than by
+headcount.
+
+Here's why it isn't a side project. You cannot honestly make intelligence *reachable*
+if you don't understand it deeply — and the frontier moves every week. New models,
+new hardware, new robots, new ways to run capable AI on modest and second-life
+machines. Every promise evig makes rests on someone actually doing that work: testing,
+benchmarking, building, breaking, and learning what's real versus what's hype. **R&D
+is the engine under the curation.** It's what turns "great for live-coding music" from
+a marketing line into a fact we've earned the right to state.
+
+And we publish it. Research notes and blog posts on the questions that matter to us —
+affordable AI, running intelligence on humble hardware, open robotics, repair,
+sovereignty over your own tools. Published in the open, because **knowledge in
+circulation is the same idea as hardware in circulation.** What we learn shouldn't die
+in a drawer any more than a working laptop should die in a bin.
+
+That openness does two things at once:
+
+- **It makes evig interesting.** An organisation with a point of view worth following
+  — not a storefront, a voice. People come for the thinking and stay for the tools.
+- **It brings talent on board.** The best people want to join a place that thinks in
+  public and shares what it discovers. Our research *is* our recruiting — proof of how
+  we reason, laid out for anyone to read, fork, and build on.
+
+So the "knowledge" evig brings closer to people has two directions: knowledge we
+**transmit** (workshops, repair café, the technician network) and knowledge we
+**create** (research, published openly). We don't just pass tools along — we push on
+the edge of what those tools can do, and we show our work.
+
+---
+
+## How people afford it
+
+Access shouldn't depend only on what's already in your wallet. So alongside buying
+outright, evig is building ways for people to **raise** their way to intelligence:
+
+- **Subscription crowdfunding and pooled financing** — communities, classes, and
+  groups raising funds together so a person or a project can reach the tools they need.
+- **Shared-subscription pools** — splitting the cost of the AI and software
+  subscriptions themselves, so the running cost of intelligence is shared, not
+  shouldered alone.
+- **Direct support** — donate a device, fund a specific tool, sponsor a workshop seat.
+  No middleman, no markup.
+
+This is where the tagline lives: **raise for longer.** Raise the funds. Raise the
+machine's life. Raise the ceiling on who gets to take part — and keep it raised.
+
+---
+
+## Where this is going: computers *and* robots
+
+Today the evig marketplace is computers. That's the wedge, not the whole.
+
+The same conviction — *good tools, proven for real use, within reach* — points
+straight at robotics. Robots are becoming the next general-purpose tool, the way the
+personal computer once did. And the same logic will apply: a capable robot is only
+useful if it works out of the box, is honest about what it can do, and comes with the
+knowledge to actually put it to work.
+
+**Humanoid robots aren't sold second-hand yet — they're barely sold new.** That
+window won't stay closed for long. When it opens, evig intends to be the first store
+that does it right: robots that are complete, tested, purpose-proven, and backed by
+the workshops and know-how to use them — new *and*, in time, given a second life the
+same way we give laptops one now.
+
+This is exactly what the research is *for*. Being early and being right are not the
+same thing — and the only way to be both is to already be doing the work: studying the
+platforms, testing what actually holds up, and publishing what we find. Our R&D today
+is how we earn the right to be first, and trustworthy, tomorrow.
+
+Computers and robots. Hardware, software, and knowledge. Bought outright or raised for
+together. That's the whole shape of it: **intelligence, reachable by anyone,
+anywhere — and kept reachable, for longer.**
+
+---
+
+## Voice notes (for anyone writing evig copy)
+
+- **Confident, forward-leaning, warm.** Techno-optimist without hype. We're building
+  the future of access, not apologising for the past of waste.
+- **Honest by default.** No numbers we haven't earned. No "since 2003." "In Gründung"
+  is stated plainly, not hidden. We don't issue tax-deductible receipts or claim
+  recognised charitable status until the Verein is actually registered and recognised.
+- **Differentiate by what we *are*,** never by naming and knocking another
+  organisation. "Complete machines, not parts" makes the point; insults don't.
+- **"Intelligence" is the through-line word** — AI, robotics, and the compute to run
+  them. Every page should be traceable back to *intelligence within reach*.
+- **Reuse = energy, not guilt.** Circular economy is how we make it affordable, not a
+  moral lecture we deliver.
+- **R&D is a pillar, not a footnote.** evig thinks in public. Frame research as *why
+  our promises are trustworthy* and *how we attract talent* — never as vanity. When
+  we cite a finding, it must be a finding we actually published, not a claim we wish
+  we'd made.