Business Needs — Objectuve
Operational, legal, brand, and market requirements that sit outside the product roadmap but are essential for launch and growth.
Legal & Compliance
These are blockers for public launch and first paying users.
- [ ] Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
Priority: Blocker Tool: Termly
Generate ToS and Privacy Policy via Termly. Must cover:
- Data collection and usage (goal data, mood logs, AI coaching interactions)
- Third-party services (Clerk auth, Clerk Billing, GCP infrastructure, AI providers)
- PBC obligations and data privacy commitments (no ads, no data selling)
- GDPR and CCPA compliance provisions
- User data export and deletion rights
Placement: Link from app footer (Settings → Legal), marketing site footer, and app store listings.
Acceptance criteria:
- [ ] ToS and Privacy Policy generated and reviewed
- [ ] Linked from ionic_frontend Settings page
- [ ] Linked from marketing_landing footer
- [ ] Referenced in app store metadata
- [ ] Business Address
Priority: Blocker Tool: Stable
Register a business address via Stable for legal filings, app store requirements, and public-facing contact information. Required for:
- App Store and Play Store developer accounts
- PBC registration and annual reports
- ToS and Privacy Policy contact address
- Domain WHOIS (if not using privacy protection)
Acceptance criteria:
- [ ] Business address registered and active
- [ ] Updated in app store developer profiles
- [ ] Referenced in ToS and Privacy Policy
Brand & Identity
- [ ] Logo Update
Priority: High Status: Not started
Modern refresh of the original 2018 Objectuve logo. The updated logo should:
- Reflect the current brand identity (see
docs/brand/brand.md) - Work across all contexts: app icon, marketing site, app stores, social media, favicon
- Support both dark and light backgrounds
- Maintain brand recognition from the original while feeling current
Deliverables:
- [ ] SVG and PNG assets (multiple sizes: 16px favicon through 1024px app store)
- [ ] App icon variants (iOS rounded, Android adaptive)
- [ ] Updated in
ionic_frontend/(favicon, app icons, splash screens) - [ ] Updated in
marketing_landing/(header, OG images) - [ ] Updated in Capacitor native project assets
- [x] "What is and Why is Objectuve" — Origin Story
Priority: High Status: Complete (2026-05-15)
Marketing site content telling the Objectuve story. Source: docs/product/origin-story.md
Content delivered:
- The origin: why Objectuve was created (2016-2018)
- First launch and lessons learned (2019-2020, ~1K users, ~5K goals)
- The hiatus and what changed (2020-2024)
- The rebuild and relaunch (2024-2026)
- Celebrating ~10 years of the vision
- The ups and downs — honest, not polished
- Where we're headed (link to PBC mission)
Tone: Authentic, reflective, coach-who's-also-a-friend. Personal narrative, not corporate.
Delivery status:
- [x] Written and committed to branch
- [x] Linked from marketing site navigation (Codi: 89.3) — footer Company column on index, about, and contact pages (our-story-public page and its footer links removed in PR #1080)
- ~~[x] OG meta tags for social sharing (Codi: 89.3) — live at https://www.objectuve.com/our-story-public~~ (page removed in PR #1080; content consolidated into
/about)
~~Live URL: https://www.objectuve.com/our-story-public~~ (URL defunct as of PR #1080)
Operations & Finance
- [ ] Vendor & Cost Analysis
Priority: Medium Status: In progress — vendor inventory created at docs/operations/vendors.md. Cost projections not yet modeled.
Create and maintain a current vendor list with associated costs, and project infrastructure spend against proposed growth curves.
Scope:
- Inventory all current vendors (Clerk, GCP services, Sentry, Mailtrap, etc.) with monthly costs
- Model infrastructure costs per MAU at current and projected scale
- Project costs against 6-month, 1-year, and 3-year user targets from
docs/product/north-star.md - Identify optimization opportunities and cost thresholds that trigger architecture changes
Deliverable: docs/product/vendor-costs.md with current spend breakdown and growth projections.
Acceptance criteria:
- [ ] Complete vendor list with monthly costs
- [ ] Infrastructure cost per MAU calculated
- [ ] Projected costs at 2K, 15K, 100K, and 500K MAU
- [ ] Optimization recommendations documented
Market Intelligence
- [x] Competitive Analysis
Priority: High Status: Complete (2026-04-04)
Comprehensive competitive analysis of 18 competitors across 4 categories, plus behavioral science study on streak/gamification effectiveness.
Deliverable: docs/product/competitive/ -- 8 documents covering:
- Index -- Landscape overview, positioning map, summary table
- Goal Trackers -- Strides, Way of Life, Goalify, Goals on Track
- Habit Trackers -- Habitica, Streaks, Done, Productive, HabitNow, Atoms
- Gamified Productivity -- Duolingo, Forest, SuperBetter, Finch
- Social Accountability -- Stickk, Beeminder, Coach.me, Supporti
- Feature Matrix -- 12-dimension cross-competitor comparison
- Streak Science -- Behavioral science + actionable recommendations
- Positioning -- Strategic differentiation, threat assessment, messaging
Acceptance criteria:
- [x] 18 competitors analyzed across 4 categories
- [x] 12-dimension feature comparison matrix complete
- [x] Behavioral science study with academic citations
- [x] Strategic positioning recommendations documented
- [x] Actionable gamification improvement recommendations included
Last updated: 2026-06-04