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15 changes: 8 additions & 7 deletions CLAUDE.md
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| `evig computers` | `/marketplace` — curated, tested hardware | live |
| `evig repairs` | `/it-hilfe` — repair instead of replace | live |
| `evig ai` | `/ai` — intelligence within reach | live |
| `evig architecture` | `/architecture` — build so the ruin still reads | research |
| `evig health` | `/health` — healthspan + preserving a person | research |

`evig architecture` and `evig health` were removed on 2026-08-25. They were
George's personal research, not evig's work, and carrying them here diluted the
one thing evig is for. They now live as projects on orangecat.ch ("Building for
the Ruin", "Healthspan and Preservation"). Do not reintroduce them.

Rules:
- **`EVIG_DIVISIONS` is the only list.** The homepage hero rail, the homepage
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- **`status: 'research'` is a claim-limiter, not a teaser.** It means nothing
is sold and nothing is promised, and the page must say so: every division
page carries a required `boundary` block ("what this is NOT") *before* its
CTA. `evig health` states plainly that it is not medicine and issues no
health promises; `evig architecture` states that it is not an architecture
practice and gives no structural advice. Do not soften or drop these — they
are what keeps an ambitious claim honest (see the honesty boundary in
`.claude/CLAUDE.md`).
CTA. `evig ai` states plainly that it is not a research lab, sells no magic,
and locks nobody in. Do not soften or drop these — they are what keeps an
ambitious claim honest (see the honesty boundary in `.claude/CLAUDE.md`).

## Non-negotiable standards (the default for every change — don't wait to be told)

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## How evig funds this platform

evig is not VC-backed and not a charity — it runs a market/quality model where affordable pricing is the product, not a subsidy. The economic model is deliberately mixed so no single source carries the whole organization:
evig is a non-profit association in formation, run on a market/quality model where affordable pricing is the product, not a subsidy. The economic model is deliberately mixed so no single source carries the whole organization:

1. **Storefront revenue** — curated, decent hardware sold at affordable prices. Margin funds operations.
2. **Service revenue** — paid workshops, repair services, IT-Hilfe billable to companies that can pay (kept affordable for individuals).
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## 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.
The circular-IT world we came from often passes on merely "good enough": take the
scrap, harvest the parts, hand it along, and measure success in kilograms diverted
from landfill. We do it differently.

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
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## The divisions — one idea at rising scale

evig says itself in divisions. They are not business units bolted together; they
are the same sentence spoken at five sizes. **Keep something useful for longer.**
are the same sentence spoken at three sizes. **Keep something useful for longer.**

- **evig computers** — the machine, curated so it lasts instead of landfilling.
- **evig repairs** — the machine someone already owns, kept alive.
- **evig ai** — the intelligence that machine can reach.
- **evig architecture** — the largest device a person owns.
- **evig health** — the person in front of all of it.

Two of them are live surfaces under different names already (the marketplace, the
technician network). Two are openly marked *research* and sell nothing.

**evig architecture — build so the ruin still reads.** The hardest test of a
building starts when nobody maintains it. A thing of stone becomes a ruin and stays
worth looking at; a thing of plasterboard, adhesive and foil becomes waste the
moment the cladding falls off, long before it collapses. The difference isn't age —
it's whether what carries the load is also what you see. That is the laptop question
asked at building size: is it what it says it is, and can it be opened, repaired and
passed on? A house is only the largest device a person owns.

**evig health — the longest-lived thing we want to keep is a person.** A repaired
laptop is a laptop that didn't have to be built twice. One level up, the question is
the same: what extends the time a person stays healthy, awake and themselves, and how
much of that survives when the time ends? Three strands: healthspan (open knowledge,
tested, nothing sold alongside it), memory (the context of a life belonging to the
person — encrypted, portable, usable by an AI working *for* them, not *on* them), and
continuity (what someone knew outlasting them, with consent given in life).

**The honesty rule that makes these sayable.** An ambitious claim earns its place
only next to the limit beside it — so each division page states what it is *not*
before it asks for anything. evig health is not medicine, has no product, and
promises no immortality and no copy of a person. evig architecture is not a practice,
takes no commissions, and gives no structural advice. Written that way these are
convictions in public; written without the limits they'd be vapour, and the rest of
the site would be worth less for it.
technician network); the third has a page of its own.

**Two divisions were removed on 2026-08-25.** *evig architecture* and *evig health*
were genuine research, but they were George's research, not evig's work. Carrying
them on this site cost the one thing a young organisation cannot spare: a reader
being able to say in a sentence what evig does. They now live as personal projects
on orangecat.ch. Focus is a claim too — and dropping two good ideas is how you make
the remaining ones legible.

**The honesty rule that makes an ambitious division sayable.** A claim earns its
place only next to the limit beside it — so each division page states what it is
*not* before it asks for anything. evig ai is not a research lab, sells no magic,
and locks nobody in. Written that way these are convictions in public; written
without the limits they'd be vapour, and the rest of the site would be worth less
for it.

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