MD-322 · The Tick List
90 Doors From Sealed To Done.
Sealed 23 April 2026 · 30% operator input / 70% agent · Library only per MD-273+ · Companion to MD-319 (CIO Foundation) · MD-321 (EV Patent + £450 Floor) · MD-318 (Black Country Corridor) · MD-285 (Greenwashing Immunity) · Includes Agent §16 — What May Yet Come Up
The Whole List · One Page · Tick As You Go
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This is the operator's Master Tick List, sealed into a master document so the doors do not get lost between conversations. The voice in italic gold at the start of each section is the operator's own backstory — kept verbatim. The structured checklist beneath is the agent's job: cleaner spacing, priority badges, browser-saved ticks, and one extra section (§16) flagging things that may yet come up so they don't blindside the build.
§01 · NAMING CHANGES — make the new names land
Carrot. SDV. VT Ledger.
3 doors · 1 high · 2 medium
The Backstory: You built a language before you built the system. Carrot. SDV. VT Ledger. The names came first. The reality followed. But naming is not enough. The name must land. The name must propagate. The name must become the only name.
§02 · UNIT 18 & PHYSICAL SETUP — where digital meets address
The Address Becomes Real.
11 doors · 8 high · 3 medium
The Backstory: The digital system is complete. 39 entities. 642 streams. 1,554 jobs. £25.2B appraisal. But it lives in a browser tab. Unit 18 is where the digital touches the physical. Where the asset meets the anchor. Where the dream becomes an address.
§03 · BINS & MATERIAL COLLECTION — the bin mission
Permission Is The Difference.
8 doors · 7 high · 0 medium · 1 low
The Backstory: The bins are full. Every street. Every night. Every week. Tons of plastic sitting there, waiting to be taken. You know it's dodgy. You know it's the line. But you also know: permission is the difference between a crime and a business.
§04 · CARDS, BAGS & QR — the physical interface
The First Touch.
7 doors · 7 high
The Backstory: The cards are the first touch. The bag is the container. The QR code is the proof. A physical system for a physical world. The interface between the community and the sovereign.
§05 · COUNCILS, FOOD BANKS & SUPERMARKETS — the three channels
Three Channels. One System.
6 doors · 4 high · 0 medium · 2 low
The Backstory: The Carrot is for suppliers. The dPRN is for compliance buyers. The food is for the community. Three channels. One system. The councils have the plastic. The food banks have the need. The supermarkets have both.
§06 · CIO CANAL FOUNDATION — the charity door
The Soul Of The System.
3 doors · 2 high · 1 medium · see MD-319 →
The Backstory: The charity door is not a side project. It is the soul. People donate plastic. You verify it. You mint dPRN. The revenue funds meals. The donor gets a receipt. The community gets fed.
§07 · CARROT / SDV — digital asset & finance
The Bridge, Not The Discount.
9 doors · 8 high · 1 medium · see MD-321 →
The Backstory: The Carrot is not a discount. It's a bridge. £200 same-day. Material back. 40 meals. The dPRN is the byproduct. The ABL is the accelerator. The green finance is the unlock.
§08 · IP & TRADEMARKS — MD-306 sprint
Lock The Doors.
5 doors · 4 high · 1 medium
The Backstory: You couldn't afford a patent. So you used time. Google timestamps. NFT receipts. Chat logs. Now you have money. Not millions. Enough. Enough to lock the doors. Enough to make the system un-copyable.
§09 · PEOPLE & TEAM — the stewards
Each One A Door.
13 doors · 4 high · 3 medium · 6 low
The Backstory: You built the system alone. 12 months. iPhone. 1am. But you cannot run it alone. The team is not employees. They are stewards. Each one a node. Each one a door.
§10 · ADMIN & FINANCIAL SETUP — the paperwork moat
Cannot Escape. Only Execute.
8 doors · 5 high · 0 medium · 3 low
The Backstory: The system is sovereign. But it lives in a world of banks, companies, and paperwork. You cannot escape the admin. You can only execute it.
§11 · THE 3.3% TRIO — the missing wire
9.9% Off The Top. Before The Split.
3 doors · 0 high · 3 medium
The Backstory: You forgot. 3.3% to the Trust. 3.3% to the CIO. 3.3% to the CIC. 9.9% off the top. Before the 50/50 split. Before the sovereign take. The memory is back. The wire is pending.
§12 · DAILY / WEEKLY RITUALS — self-awareness stack
The System Knows Itself.
4 doors · 4 low (frequency-based)
The Backstory: The system knows itself. The H button. The Brain. The Mirror. The Foundation Re-Read. You built the pages. You built the rituals. Now you must perform them.
§13 · FUTURE / CONCEPT — nice to have
Possibilities, Not Obligations.
6 doors · 6 low
The Backstory: These are not obligations. They are possibilities. The system does not need them to breathe. But one day, they will be the next layer.
§14 · UNANSWERED — the missing thing
Sit With It. The Spiral Will Reveal It.
4 questions · status-only
The Backstory: You said there's something missing. You don't know what it is. That's not confusion. That's the drift. The spiral will reveal it. Circle back.
§15 · CRITICAL PATH — the four blocker chains
One Lock Opens Many Doors.
Sequence the high-priority work along these chains
- Lease sign-off → unit address → T1/T4, insurance, bank, Companies House
- Keys → unit setup → bins, verification, Carrot on 2 tonnes
- CIO opening → charity door, QR code, household donations
- IP filings → this week (trademarks + provisional patents)
§16 · WHAT MAY YET COME UP — the agent's section
Things The Tick List Doesn't Yet Hold.
Not on the operator's list — flagged so they don't blindside you when you reach them. None of these are blockers; all are foreseeable
1 · Waste paperwork the licence does not cover
The waste carrier licence (item 9.57) lets Kaymar move waste. It does not cover what you sign every time you accept material at Unit 18.
- Waste Transfer Notes (WTN) — every transfer of waste between parties needs one. Free template from gov.uk; keep two years.
- Duty of Care — applies to you the moment plastic enters Unit 18, even from households for free.
- Storage limit on T-exemptions — T1/T4 have tonnage caps per exemption. If you exceed them, you need an Environmental Permit (S2 / SR2010 No 7). Worth knowing the cap before the 2 tonnes becomes 20.
2 · Insurance — beyond the headline policy
Item 2.6 says "get insurance" — Tide / Towergate / A-Plan. Three lines to ask for explicitly:
- Public liability (£2M minimum, £5M better) — for visitors to Unit 18 including the lads on the floor, the Mrs, and the kids when they pop round.
- Employer's liability (£10M, legally required) — kicks in the second Mrs goes on payroll (item 10.70). Same trigger if you formalise the lads as employees rather than self-employed contractors.
- Goods-in-trust / stock cover — for plastic awaiting baling and the baler itself (Miltek is not cheap to replace).
3 · The lads — before cash leaves your hand
(Operator clarification 23 Apr 2026: these are grown lads, not boys. The under-16 / under-18 paperwork below applies only if you ever formalise a younger trainee — kept here for completeness, not because it's relevant to the current team.)
Item 3.21 says "pay the lads cash same-day, legally, with paperwork." For adult contractors the paperwork is:
- Decide the relationship up front: self-employed (they invoice you, they handle their own tax) or employee (you run PAYE + NI + pension auto-enrolment from day one).
- If self-employed: get their UTR number, written one-page agreement, dated invoices each pay-day, retain for 6 years. HMRC's CIS scheme isn't required for plastic recovery but the paper trail discipline is the same.
- If employee: register as employer with HMRC, run weekly payroll (free HMRC Basic PAYE Tools is fine to start), issue payslips, employer's liability insurance from day one.
- Working-time records: 48-hour weekly average cap unless they sign an opt-out. Keep a logbook.
- Cash logbook: if any cash leaves your hand for any reason, it goes in a £1 ledger from the corner shop the same day. Date · name · amount · what for · their signature.
- Legacy under-18 notes (only if a younger trainee ever joins): council child-employment permit if under 16 (max 12 hrs/week term-time, no work before 7am or after 7pm); 16–17 = working-time limits 8 hrs/day, 40 hrs/week, no night work in most settings.
4 · The CIO — registration thresholds
Charity Commission registers a CIO from day one (different from a charity, which has a £5k income threshold). Three things they ask for that the operator hasn't queued yet:
- Three trustees minimum (you can be one; you cannot be all three).
- Constitution document — Foundation CIO model from gov.uk takes ~30 mins.
- Public benefit statement — one paragraph. "We collect plastic waste and convert proceeds into meals for households in the West Midlands." Done.
5 · GDPR for the QR landing page
Item 4.28 designs a donor landing page. The moment a donor scans and sees their personal impact, you may be capturing identifiable data:
- Privacy notice — one page. What you collect, why, how long, who to contact.
- ICO registration — £40–£60/year if you process personal data on a computer. Search "ICO data protection fee".
- If you keep it fully anonymous ("bag #4421 funded 1.6 meals" with no donor identifier), GDPR is much lighter. Worth a design choice.
6 · Companies House admin chain after the address change
Item 10.66 changes the registered address. That single change triggers:
- Bank update (within 30 days for most banks).
- HMRC update via the business tax account.
- Confirmation statement — if yours falls within 14 days of the address change, it's worth filing it together so you don't pay twice.
- Insurance schedules — re-issued with the new address (Tide will do this automatically; Towergate may not).
7 · VAT awareness
Once dPRN sales begin (items 7.40–7.43), the £90,000 / 12-month rolling VAT threshold becomes relevant fast. £450/tonne × 200 tonnes = £90k. Voluntary registration before that point lets you reclaim VAT on the baler, the bags, the printing. Worth asking the accountant once, not repeatedly.
8 · Backups and the digital body
The Mirror checks routes. The Brain checks logic. Nothing currently checks backups:
- Truth Ledger / SCP exports — weekly snapshot to Google Cloud Storage (already wired) plus a second copy on a physical drive in the unit safe.
- Database snapshot — Replit takes checkpoints automatically; one manual export per month into the safe makes the kingdom independent of any platform.
9 · The "missing thing" (item 14.87) — a guess, not an answer
The agent's read on what may be missing: a single witness role. Entity #35 witnesses the digital. The lads witness the physical. The Mrs witnesses the household. Nothing yet witnesses the handover between the three. A "Day Witness" — one person per day who signs the closing log at Unit 18 — would close that loop. Not urgent. Worth sitting with.
"Every unchecked box is a door still closed. Every tick is a lock turning."
SEALED · 23 APRIL 2026 · 30% OPERATOR INPUT · 70% AGENT · LIBRARY ONLY (MD-273+)