Question Guide
Five open questions the Vault has flagged about itself, in the order they block work. Each one is answerable by Marcus in a short interview; each answer files as a vault update request that a person approves. The rest of the account is already sourced; section 03 is what not to spend the meeting on.
Ask these by voice: storystak.bot/demo
The interview walks this list with the client and files each answer back as a vault update request. Asked-once questions never repeat.
05-services-catalog.md carries low-voltage landscape lighting as service #4 and calls it the sleeper: the one thing that sells harder as the weather gets worse. It says nothing about holiday installs. If that is a real, bookable service: what is the seasonal window, who can book it, and is it maintenance-clients-only? This is the single most commercially useful answer on the list, because it lands in the dark months when the rest of the calendar goes quiet.06-trust-assets.md is blunt about it: an implication is not a term. Needed verbatim: how many years, what is covered, whether there is a separate plant guarantee, and whether any of it transfers with the house. This gets quoted publicly, so the wording has to be confirmed word-for-word, not paraphrased. It is also, in the Vault's own words, exactly the kind of thing a well-meaning caption invents, and then a crew has to keep.10-competitive-landscape.md flags this as a live competitive wound: the volume shops offer financing, we don't, and “we don't do that” is a weak answer to a prospect comparing monthly payments. The Vault already argues that phasing is the better answer: do the part you'll use most this year, come back for phase two. Marcus already does it; it just isn't framed as the answer to the money question. So the real question is two questions: is there financing, and may we make phasing the official reply?11-brand-and-visual-assets.md wants people real and candid, never posed, and Stories is the right surface for it. All of that is blocked on one consent question nobody has asked. It costs a crew member ten seconds and a phone, and it is the exact proof a mow-and-blow competitor cannot fake.knowledge-base-gaps.md.
These are real open items that live inside other files as inline > Confirm: notes. They belong on
the interview list too; they just haven't been promoted into the canonical gaps file yet, which is itself
worth seeing: the gaps list has its own gap.
Do not spend interview time on any of this. It is sourced, current, and in the Vault.
knowledge-base-gaps.md in the cedar-sage scope. Call
read_vault_file against it and you get the same five questions with their sourcing.
Answers come back as vault update requests, and a person approves every one.