Retail
Compliance checks across franchise stores
A franchise runs a weekly checklist in each of forty stores. The manager completes it on a phone with photos, head office sees which stores are failing which checks, and a failed item creates a task with a deadline and an owner.
Automatically generated draft
Written by machine against our own engineering playbook. The company is invented; the decisions are the ones we would make on a real build. A reviewed blueprint goes further — nine sections, agreed line by line, and it is what the build is tested against.
Section 01 · What has to work
Store managers must submit weekly photo-verified checklists on mobile, and head office must instantly see store-level failures auto-assigning tasks with deadlines.
Section 03 · Screens
Every screen, and what it is for.
- ›Checklist Dashboard — Manager selects store and week to view status, tap to open. Must be instant.
- ›Item Detail — Manager marks pass/fail and uploads camera photo, must be instant.
- ›HQ Overview — Region director views live store compliance matrix and overdue tasks. Must be instant.
- ›Task Resolution — Owner updates assigned task status and uploads proof photo. Must be instant.
Anything not on this list is not in version one. That is what keeps a fixed price fixed.
Section 04 · The data model
What it stores, and who can read a row.
stores
id uuid, name text, region text, created_at timestamptz
Access · Authenticated staff can read all stores.
checklists
id uuid, store_id uuid, week_start date, submitted_at timestamptz, status enum(draft, submitted, reviewed)
Access · Store managers read own store, head office reads all.
checklist_items
id uuid, checklist_id uuid, question_text text, passed boolean, photo_url text, notes text
Access · Store managers read own checklist, head office reads all.
tasks
id uuid, store_id uuid, checklist_item_id uuid, owner_id uuid, deadline timestamptz, status enum(open, in_progress, resolved, overdue), resolution_photo_url text
Access · Assigned owner and head office can read.
Those access rules belong in the database, not in the screens. Someone who edits the address bar still cannot read a row that is not theirs — and the test that proves it blocks delivery if it fails.
Section 05 · States
draft → submitted → reviewed | failed(task_created) → task_open → task_resolved
Most scope arguments three weeks into a build are really arguments about a state nobody named at the start.
Section 06 · Where this breaks
What bites products like this one.
Store basements lack cellular connectivity while managers attempt checklist photo uploads.
Queue submissions in local device storage and background-sync when connection returns.
Large mobile camera photos exhaust bandwidth and storage limits.
Compress images client-side to maximum 1200px width before uploading object storage.
Section 08 · Deliberately left out
What version one does not do.
- ×Automated SMS reminders for overdue tasks — adds third-party SMS costs; email push notifications are sufficient for v1.
- ×Historical trend analytics dashboards — requires complex data warehousing; simple tabular aggregates suffice for launch.
This is the section that protects the date, and the only place in the document where somebody says no. It is also why clients trust the rest of it.
Still open
What we would ask before quoting.
- How are store manager and owner accounts provisioned and mapped to their specific store locations?
- What specific resolution details must an owner provide before a task can be marked as resolved?
Half of this already exists
Fieldline
The field half of this is a solved problem: routes assigned, work captured with no signal and synced later, and an alert when nobody shows up.
It is one of our pre-built products: the code is handed over to you, adapted to your own wording and rules, and the rest of the specification above is built on top of it rather than from scratch.
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