Open questions

Outstanding decisions after the September 2026 research. Suggested answers are in Proposal 001; they are not automatically accepted decisions.

The immediate uncertainty is whether a reachable merchant will repeatedly pay for the proposed job. Engineering work should reduce that uncertainty alongside proving the connector.

Decision	Current recommendation or gap	Evidence needed next
Initial workflow	Supplier price updates; catalog-content preparation is the fallback	Observe actual recent work and compare existing import tools
Target merchant and geography	Small operating team, recurring files; geography not selected	Recruit accessible shops and document eligibility
Platform/version	OpenCart first; one release family	Pilot version/extension inventory and a successful connector spike
Founder acceptance	This is a proposal	Explicit acceptance or changes to Proposal 001
Interface	Chat, review tables, Today and history	Merchant task observation with a prototype
Authority	Per-job approval before writes; later bounded delegation	Tests of the proposed contract and merchant comprehension
Data handling	Minimize data; define retention and provider handling before onboarding	Deployment/provider decision and pilot requirements
Price and channel	Paid workflow experiment; agencies plus extension discovery	Paid continuation and measured support/acquisition effort
Agentfy reuse	Source-level candidates identified, integration unverified	Tool execution, tenant isolation, background recovery and approval-contract spike
Name	Store Deputy remains an internal working name	Resolve the existing name question before external launch

The roadmap defines proposed gates. There are no completed interviews, customers or measured business outcomes to report yet.