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+# VISION.md — What "done" looks like
+
+## What is harb
+
+A DeFi protocol with a price-floor-backed token (KRK), governed by an AI-evolved optimizer that manages liquidity positions on Uniswap V3. Three user funnels: passive holders (buy and hold a floor-backed asset), stakers (leveraged directional exposure via Harberger tax as sentiment oracle), and competitors (snatch underpriced stakes for profit). The optimizer evolves through Push3 evolution and red-team adversarial testing.
+
+## North star
+
+Get live, learn from the market. The primary goal is having a real protocol with real users generating real data — not perfecting things in isolation. Everything else follows from that.
+
+This project is AI-operated. Development, review, deployment, community support, analytics — all run by agents with minimal human escalation. The human sets direction and makes judgment calls. The machines handle execution, quality, and day-to-day operations. A high-quality project with a solid roadmap and growing community, delivered by an autonomous factory.
+
+## Phase 1 — Quality gate & release pipeline
+
+Before anything goes live, build confidence that the product works:
+
+- **E2E quality gate**: automated tests covering every button, every page, desktop + mobile + all major browsers
+- **Conversion funnel verification**: landing → Uniswap swap → staking app flow is smooth and measurable
+- **Release pipeline**: fast, repeatable releases for frontend/backend updates. Contracts are immutable except the optimizer (upgradeable via UUPS).
+- **Reusable for every release** — the quality gate runs on every deploy, not just launch
+
+## Phase 2 — Coordinated launch
+
+Not a soft launch. A planned, date-specific event:
+
+- **Pre-launch**: create a pitch deck / PDF explaining the protocol to influencers — what KRK is, how to buy, how to stake, what the floor means
+- **Influencer outreach**: coordinate with crypto influencers to amplify on the same date. They buy supply, stake, and market to their audience simultaneously.
+- **Launch day**: deploy LiquidityManager, register token, create Uniswap pool. Coordinated influencer push creates initial volume → price action → organic discovery.
+- **Goal**: broad base of holders from day one, not a slow trickle
+
+## Phase 3 — Operations
+
+Post-launch, the project needs sustained operations:
+
+- **Analytics**: measure churn on landing page and staking page, track conversion funnel, user feedback loops
+- **Fast iteration**: regular releases to fix issues, ship improvements based on user feedback
+- **Influencer waves**: organize repeat coordinated pushes — influencers combine forces to create new bull cycles in the protocol
+- **Community**: Discord (or similar) with:
+  - AI support bots trained on the protocol (help users swap, stake, understand the floor)
+  - Sentiment monitoring + regular community health reports
+  - Direct feedback channel to dev team
+- **Optimizer governance**: release new evolved optimizers, eventually create a staker voting system for decentralized community-selected optimizer upgrades
+- **txnBot**: automated on-chain operations — recenter triggers, protocol health monitoring, transaction execution
+
+## What we're NOT building
+
+- No governance token (KRK is the token, staking IS governance exposure)
+- No cross-chain (Base only for now)
+- No yield farming / liquidity mining incentives
+- No centralized exchange listings (Uniswap is the market)
+- No mobile app (responsive web only)
+
+## What "launched" means (minimum)
+
+1. Quality gate passes on landing + staking app (desktop + mobile)
+2. Pitch deck exists and is reviewed
+3. At least 3 influencers committed to launch day
+4. LiquidityManager deployed on Base mainnet
+5. KRK token registered, Uniswap pool created and funded
+6. Analytics in place (basic funnel tracking)
+7. Community channel open with at least one support bot