From 17563697c192acb5304cc7fea1bf62a59ea0a62c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 2ro <17595647+2ro@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:27:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Foundation: retire whitepaper & operating-principles docs, drop adoption-gap framing and product mentions - Remove 'The Adoption Gap' whitepaper entirely (PDF, web section, TOC card, nav) - Remove the 'How We Work' Operating Principles doc entirely - Strip all adoption-gap language from mission, overview, manifesto, and the Civilian Zero Trust about sections - Remove manifesto sections: 'The law is our only boundary' and 'escape the dark age' - Remove all product mentions (Goblin, Bidwars) from the overview - Renumber Contents; rebuild affected PDF/UA-1 PDFs Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 --- foundation/index.html | 108 +- foundation/pdf/01-mission.pdf | Bin 40924 -> 40866 bytes foundation/pdf/02-vision.pdf | Bin 32610 -> 32610 bytes foundation/pdf/03-core-values.pdf | Bin 37271 -> 37271 bytes foundation/pdf/04-whitepaper.pdf | 2455 ----------------- foundation/pdf/05-manifesto.pdf | Bin 37480 -> 33892 bytes foundation/pdf/06-principles.pdf | Bin 46340 -> 0 bytes foundation/pdf/07-overview.pdf | Bin 48242 -> 44309 bytes ...ton-labs-civilian-zero-trust-phase-one.pdf | Bin 350706 -> 350684 bytes ...ton-labs-civilian-zero-trust-phase-two.pdf | Bin 382861 -> 382847 bytes ...ouston-labs-civilian-zero-trust-primer.pdf | Bin 792894 -> 792716 bytes 11 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2560 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 foundation/pdf/04-whitepaper.pdf delete mode 100644 foundation/pdf/06-principles.pdf diff --git a/foundation/index.html b/foundation/index.html index 1a20623..b0b89af 100644 --- a/foundation/index.html +++ b/foundation/index.html @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Home Resources Contents - Whitepaper Email us @@ -75,24 +74,12 @@
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Whitepaper

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The Adoption Gap, our thesis.

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Manifesto

What we believe, said plainly.

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Operating Principles

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How we work.

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Company Overview

The short version.

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We research what's next, and we build it so anyone can use it.

Houston Labs is a technological research and development company. We exist to further humanity: to take the most capable technology of our time and turn it into tools that are beautiful, effortless, and genuinely useful for individuals and small organizations, not only for those who already hold the advantage.

Why we exist

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We began by trying to close one gap, between brands and the people who carry their stories, and found a far larger one beneath it. The world is not short on powerful technology. It is short on technology that ordinary people and small teams can actually adopt. That gap, left alone, quietly decides who gets to compete in the next era and who gets left behind.

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We began by trying to close one gap, between brands and the people who carry their stories, and that work pulled us toward something larger: building at the frontier where advanced technology meets human creativity. The world is not short on powerful technology. It is short on technology built to be beautiful, effortless, and genuinely within reach of ordinary people and small teams.

We refuse to let that be an accident. Our work is to do the hard research, build the prototype, and ship the product, so the power of emerging technology reaches the many, not the few.

What drives us