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Running the company side of EmbeddedEra LLC: accounting, taxes, social media, listings. Registration numbers, EIN and addresses are in Company facts below. Site work lives in embeddedera-site; the store in ebay-store.

Company facts

One place for the numbers every form asks for. An EIN is not a secret (it goes on every W-9); SSNs and bank account numbers never go in the notebook — they live in Vaultwarden.
Legal name EmbeddedEra LLC
Type North Carolina limited liability company, two members (Angel Diaz Oquendo and Yara Rosado Rivera, 50/50). Taxed as a partnership (Form 1065 + K-1s)
NC Secretary of State ID (SOSID) 2827835 — also what forms call the "business registration number"
EIN (federal tax ID) 99-2537132
NC sales & use tax Registered 2026-10-02. Account ID 601765155 (put it on every Certificate of Exemption, Form E-595E), Certificate of Registration licence no. 004309137, business class 5180, Johnston County. Filing frequency (monthly / quarterly) set by the NC-BR answers: check on ncdor.gov. A return is due every period, even at $0.00. The certificate must be posted at the place of business. NCDOR prints the name as "EMBEDDEDER" (truncated): check that it is only a print truncation.
Formed April 2024
Principal office 1001 Ridge Drive, Clayton NC 27520-9664 (Johnston County)
Registered agent ZenBusiness, 1001 Wade Ave, Raleigh (Wake County); this is not our address
Phone (910) 627-9425
Annual report NC LLC annual report, about $200 a year (see bookkeeping)

Trade names and accounts under the LLC

Name What Where
EmbeddedEra design and manufacturing; the website, the eBay store embeddedera-site, ebay-store
Oddly Fitting Goods Etsy print-on-demand shop, opened 2026-09-27 as an Incorporated business with the SOSID and EIN above etsy-shop

Status

  • 2026-09-11: Google Business Profile created (verification pending), Bing Places imported from it, cal.com booking link live (https://cal.com/embeddedera/20-minute-call), Web3Forms intake on the site.

Open

  • Darius Thomas / ELQARIS proposal: ON HOLD: Angel sends the 'buy off-the-shelf' draft first; reshape proposal only if Darius names a real differentiator. He asked for it by Mon 2026-11-23. Needs a mutual NDA template (none on the NAS) and a services agreement. Call filed CM-2026-004 (NAS communications/2026/2026-11-09 ORVELION Technologies - intro call - notes.md). Decide before sending: app in-house (said on the call) or partner; TPMS reverse-engineering idea needs a terms/FCC check.
  • Nashoba / Chris Young (NICS): intro call held 2026-11-09, filed CM-2026-005 (NAS communications/2026/2026-11-09 Nashoba Technologies - intro call - notes.md). Next: (1) Angel picks NDA redline asks (§5 consent for fabs/cloud AI, §6(d), §3(a)), then sign; (2) Chris sends files once his previous designer hands them over (he may convert to KiCad); (3) Angel sends the reference-customer page promised on the call; (4) written proposal: $750 fixed review credited to the next phase (said on the call), then capped development. Decide whether to keep offering the co-ownership/royalty model Angel floated [40:02].
  • HANDOFF 2026-11-06 (chat over budget): leads + calls Mon Nov 9. State:
  • Mon Nov 9 calls: 10:00 Brett Martin (RGB matrix/animatronic, thread 1a19da967a3cc769); 12:00 Darius Thomas (ORVELION, ELQARIS trailer monitor, idea stage, ~$15k, wants HW + phone app; reply draft in his form thread, NOT sent unless Angel did; open: do we build apps or partner); 15:00 Christopher Young (Nashoba NICS, Altium takeover, ESP32-C5/INA260/TMP102/MCP2515, 3-5 protos, 4-6 wk, self-funded). Next action: prep talking points for each (Chris: $750 fixed review 100% up front, credited to M1, milestones M1-M5, ask input power, why MCP2515 when C5 has TWAI, Altium vs KiCad deliverable, pin map).
  • Pricing decided in chat (not yet a dated owner rule): internal rate $95/h (floor $85, raise to $110-125 after 2-3 paid projects); fixed price per milestone; review 100% up front; milestones 50/50, next only after paid; hardware 100% up front + 10-15%; files/IP on final payment; changes billed hourly. Chris estimate total ~$5-8k + hardware.
  • DFX1 (Mike): MNDA AG-2026-004 executed (Claude e-signed on Angel's explicit instruction); reply with PDF = Gmail draft, Angel to send if not yet. Waiting for his design files -> store per SOP-030 -> fixed review quote (64-page, ~800 parts: well above $750).
  • Booking: Angel set Mon 11-13, Tue/Thu 13-16 ET, 2/day, notice 24 h (verified live). Option 3 (extra form questions) not started; option 4 (approval step) deferred.
  • Checks passed: DFX1 redline and final word-diffed vs source; doc-check on redline; live slots API matches settings.
  • Kaylee Gleason / Million Made Legacies LLC (EE-20261111-1828-TQMO + 1831-ERNI, millionmadelegacies@gmail.com, Gmail thread 1a1ccf0e66f3b489): one-off prototype, custom enclosure + solar-powered low-voltage electronics; wants capability talk + mutual NDA first. Reply draft (yes/yes/yes, asks for her NDA, booking link) in Gmail, NOT sent: Angel sends. Next: review her NDA per SOP-046 (we have no mutual NDA template).
  • Zeki Keles / Vulize (GPSDO, ZED-F9T + STM32 hat, Gmail thread 1a1b6a28f6f8154a, no NDA): intro call held 2026-11-10, filed CM-2026-006 (NAS communications/2026/2026-11-10 Vulize - intro call - notes.md). They have a PDF schematic, mostly through-hole; Angel offered assembly (needs Gerbers, BOM, position files) or KiCad schematic + hat layout. No price given. Next: follow-up email asking design-by-us vs assembly-only and for the files.
  • Brett Martin (BU22 LED robot, EE-20261102-1408-D3PO, Gmail thread 1a19da967a3cc769): intro call held 2026-11-09 (CM-2026-003; notes on NAS communications/2026/2026-11-09 Brett Martin - intro call - notes.md). Waiting for Brett's email listing what to test. Then: settle time-and-materials (offered on the call) vs fixed milestones before quoting; no price given yet; target about $100 per display.
  • DFX1 Forensics (Mike Gemmell, Gmail thread 1a1b0bed01ee1d88): MNDA AG-2026-004 EXECUTED 2026-11-06 (NAS legal/agreements/2026-11-06 DFX1 Forensics - MNDA - executed.pdf); reply with the PDF is a Gmail draft for Angel to send. Next: when design files arrive, store per SOP-030, then send a fixed review quote (100% up front, $95/h internal rate; 64-page, ~800-part board, so well above the $750 small-board review). Rules: cloud/AI ok (3(d), no training); fabs need per-order email OK; no publicity (6(d)); Work Product is DFX1's on payment in full.
  • Shower Drying Technologies: moved to shower-drying-technologies 2026-11-01 (project opened). Older status below kept for history. James Harris, Shower Drying Technologies (EE-20261020-1406-MTXY, vendors@showerdryingtechnologies.com, Gmail thread 1a15a7e84f7b87fd): reply sent 2026-10-20. HANDOFF 2026-10-22: NDA reviewed and size check done (both in Log 2026-10-22). SIGNED as-is 2026-10-23 (AG-2026-003, filed on NAS; customer folder customers/Shower Drying Technologies/ on the NAS, README first); reply draft with signed PDF waits for Angel to send. Open: confirm entity at sosnc.gov. 2026-10-22 Jay sent their NDA (one-way, 7 pp, signed by him 10/22) and wants an afternoon intro call. NDA reviewed (see Log); waiting on Angel: sign as-is or send a one-clause AI-tools redline, and pick call times. PDF not yet on the NAS (connector can't download attachments). Earlier plan: follow SOP-046 (read whole agreement, check AI/fab/subcontractor limits, redline unsigned, clean final, register row); if call, ask the held-back questions (AC motor type and power, wireless type and range, first-year volume, US-only, prototype or date, cert lab chosen, and whether we build production units, since the lab would audit our shop). Read hardware/ul-etl-certification first. No reply by 2026-10-27: draft a short nudge for Angel to send. Before any services agreement: insurance (E&O and product liability) is still an open gap, and the vault shows no mains-AC or UL-listed product, so claim none.
  • Blossman CLOSED 2026-10-30 (Barry declined). MNDA 3.3 wind-down: (1) Angel sends the UNSENT thank-you draft in Gmail (threaded on Barry's 10-30 decline; says we destroy all copies + notes and send a signed certificate unless he wants them returned). (2) If Barry doesn't ask for a return, Angel deletes NAS EmbeddedEra/customers/Blossman Gas/received/, work/ and notes/ (review notes are derived from their info), plus any copies elsewhere (Mac ~/Downloads, Dropbox request folder). (3) Angel (Co-Owner) signs a short destruction certificate and emails it to Barry. (4) Register AG-2026-001 status → Closed, certificate filed in legal/agreements/.
  • Scope an ICM map for /mnt/storage/EmbeddedEra/ only (not media, immich, precious); separate from the Blossman decision. SOP-030 still points design files at precious/EmbeddedEra; reconcile with customers/.
  • Friending, Inc. MNDA (AG-2026-002, Gabor Kadas, Gmail thread 1a137dfabd94855c): Gabor's revised NDA (10/27) accepted as written; clean final e-signed by Angel 2026-10-27, NAS legal/agreements/2026-10-14 Friending - MNDA - signed-by-us.pdf, register = Signed by us, not yet returned. Reply draft with the PDF waits for Angel to send. An older unsent draft in the same thread ("One last tidy-up", redline v2) is obsolete: discard it. Next: when Gabor returns it signed, file as executed, set Executed, delete the draft-redline docx; then send him the tool list for written approval (para 3). Until then no AI tools, fab houses or contractors touch his spec.
  • Register AG-2026-001 (Blossman): the NAS copy still says "Signed by us, not yet returned"; the newer copy is on the Mac in ~/Downloads/NAS-staging. Merge it, do not overwrite. When merged, set the status to Closed (project ended 2026-10-30).
  • Learn new microcontroller families through small hobby projects, so they can be listed honestly (owner, 2026-10-15). Today the site lists 6 families (STM32, ESP32, Nordic nRF52, Microchip PIC/AVR/SAM, TI MSP430/CC, Arduino-compatible) from one master list in the website's src/site.ts (MCU_FAMILIES). Candidates: Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350, NXP (LPC/i.MX RT/Kinetis), Renesas RA, Silicon Labs EFR32, WCH CH32. Pick one at a time: buy a cheap dev board, build one useful thing (a fixture helper, a Cricket-style gadget, a demo for a note), and write it up as an engineering note. Add the family to MCU_FAMILIES only once something real works and is documented; the note and photos become proof on the firmware service page.

See ~/Notes/tasks.md — this section is now generated from the task register.

Gaps, round 2 — "what am I not thinking of" (2026-09-11)

Ranked by risk. ✱ = can bite before anything else is noticed.

  1. ✱ Product compliance. Anything with a radio (BLE, nRF, sub-GHz — the controller product) needs FCC authorization (Part 15; modular approval if the radio module carries its own FCC ID, which is the cheap path). Mains-powered → UL/ETL or a listed supply. EU sales → CE + RoHS declaration
  2. WEEE. Batteries shipped → UN38.3 and carrier hazmat rules (already noted for eBay). Labels must carry the marks. Audit the 3 products against this; record the modular FCC IDs on the parts.
  3. ✱ Insurance. General liability, product liability (hardware sold to the public), and errors-and-omissions for design services. Quotes from Hiscox / Next / Thimble-type carriers; home-business rider on the homeowner policy is not enough.
  4. ✱ Contracts. A master services agreement / terms for design work (IP assignment on payment, limitation of liability, acceptance, payment terms); a mutual NDA; contractor agreement with IP assignment for any helper (without it, the helper owns what they create); terms of sale + warranty + return policy for the products.
  5. Trademark and handles. USPTO search on "EmbeddedEra"; register if clear (~$350). Buy embeddedera.net/.io/.co defensively. Social handles are inconsistent (embedded_era on Instagram vs EmbeddedEra elsewhere) — pick one for anything new.

Money

  1. ✱ NC resale certificate (Form E-595E) so parts bought for products are bought tax-free; pairs with the sales-tax registration already flagged.
  2. Getting paid. Decide the rails: Stripe invoices (card + ACH, auto-reconciles), plus ACH/wire details for POs; deposit policy; net terms only for repeat customers. Wire the chosen rail into the invoice PDF's remit-to block.
  3. Internal rate card (never published): hourly, NRE minimum, per-unit assembly, rush, minimum order. Every quote derives from it; without it every quote is improvised.
  4. Time tracking. Hours per project feed costing and hourly quotes. Free: Kimai (self-hosted, API) or a 5-line vault log per day. Without it the rate card is a guess.

Operations

  1. Shipping. Business accounts (USPS Business/Pirate Ship free, UPS) for discounted labels; packaging spec (ESD bags, MSL bags for boards); hazmat for batteries; international needs HS codes and a commercial invoice — the doc template can produce it.
  2. Supplier accounts as a business (Digi-Key, Mouser, LCSC, JLCPCB/PCBWay) with the resale certificate on file and net terms when offered.
  3. Component lifecycle monitoring on our own BOMs — the obsolescence service applied inward: a weekly check of every MPN in the ERP against lifecycle status (Nexar/Octopart free tier or distributor APIs, via part-lookup), ntfy on EOL/NRND. Ties to InvenTree alternates.
  4. Product documentation: datasheet/quick-start/user manual per product, firmware changelog, a support page — the docs section of the site. Warranty end = ship date + term, from ERP data.
  5. Firmware release process: semantic versions, tagged builds, signed/checksummed images, the flasher pinned to a release, version recorded per serial (already planned).
  6. Support path: support@ alias → label → the same draft routine; RMA via return orders.

IT security

  1. Email hardening: DMARC from p=none → quarantine → reject once reports look clean; DNSSEC on at Cloudflare; registrar lock at Squarespace; MFA on Google, Cloudflare, GitHub, Resend, Vaultwarden (check each). hello@ is public — expect phishing; SPF/DKIM already good.
  2. Offboarding checklist for a helper: ERP user off, Cloudflare Access email removed, Workspace account suspended, Bitwarden shares revoked, physical keys.

Management

  1. Weekly numbers — one page, automated from the systems: leads in, quotes out, win rate, revenue, inventory value, test yield, on-time ship, cash. The vault report routine can build it once the ERP has data.
  2. Bus factor: if Angel is out for a month, who can ship, refund, answer? The vault is the manual; the missing piece is a named person with access. Registered agent covers the legal mail.

Accounting and taxes — the gap the MRP does not cover (2026-09-11)

InvenTree holds parts, stock, builds, orders; it does no bookkeeping. What it hands over by export: sales by customer, purchases by supplier, COGS per unit (BOM roll-up), inventory value at year end. Everything below needs a ledger and a tax filer. Verify each item with a CPA — none of this is professional advice.

Obligations for an NC LLC that sells physical products

Corrected 2026-09-24: this is a TWO-member LLC, so the federal items below are wrong

Angel confirmed EmbeddedEra LLC is owned 50/50 by Angel Diaz Oquendo and Yara Rosado Rivera. This section was written for a single-member LLC and its federal obligations reflect that. The IRS treats a single-member LLC as a disregarded entity (Schedule C plus self-employment tax on one personal 1040) but a two-member LLC as a partnership — Form 1065 and a K-1 to each member. Items 2 and 3 below are therefore the wrong set. Do not act on them; settle the entity classification in the CPA hour first. The NC items (sales and use tax, annual report) are unaffected. See ../claude-memory note embeddedera-ownership and the NCDOR registration thread.

  1. NC sales & use tax — register with NCDOR, collect on NC sales, file monthly/quarterly. NOT in any plan until now; sharpest penalties if missed. Out-of-state sales become taxable in another state only above that state's economic-nexus threshold (typically ~$100k/yr there).
  2. Federal income + self-employment tax: Schedule C + SE on the personal 1040; quarterly estimates (Form 1040-ES).
  3. NC state income tax: quarterly estimates (NC-40).
  4. NC LLC annual report, every April (~$200).
  5. 1099-NEC to any non-employee paid ≥ $600/yr; collect W-9s.
  6. Inventory for tax: small businesses may treat inventory as non-incidental materials and supplies; either way a year-end inventory value must exist — the MRP produces it.

Ledger options (rule 2 says free first; this is the one place paid may win)

  • GnuCash — free, true double-entry, invoices and sales-tax tables, CPA-standard; desktop, no API (the box can hand it CSV).
  • Firefly III — free, self-hosted, API; personal-finance shaped: no AR/invoicing, no sales tax.
  • Wave — free core, business-shaped (invoicing, sales tax); bank sync possibly paid — verify.
  • Paid small-business accounting (~$20–30/mo) + a CPA once a year: the pragmatic path if the free tools cost more in mistakes than they save.

Decision path

  1. One hour with a CPA before the first invoice goes through the new system: sales-tax registration, inventory method, entity questions (S-corp election ever?), which ledger they want to receive.
  2. Their answer picks the ledger; Claude automates the exports from InvenTree and the invoice ledger into it; monthly close checklist added to the routines.

Angel asked what paid options exist. Verified from vendor pricing pages except the ad rates, which the scout could not fetch and are market estimates — check before spending.

Tool Cheapest paid Notes
Buffer $5 per channel / mo cheapest real option, has an API, LinkedIn company pages + Instagram
Metricool ~€16/mo 10 brands, API only on the higher tier
Later $18.75/mo strongest analytics
SocialBee $24/mo content library + calendar
Postiz cloud $29/mo same product we could self-host free on this box
Mixpost $299 once self-hosted, unlimited channels, permanent licence — no subscription
Hootsuite ~$99/mo band annual lock-in, built for teams; not for us
Adobe Express $9.99/mo Canva-like; Figma free covers most of it
Figma free fine for one-off graphics indefinitely

Ads (estimates): Meta no minimum, ~$5–20/day to start, B2B CPC ~$1–3. LinkedIn ~$10/day minimum, B2B CPC ~$5–15 — the most expensive place to learn. Google no minimum, CPC ~$1–4.

Position: do not buy yet. The self-hosted Postiz or Mixpost route removes the only real reason to subscribe (renting an approved LinkedIn/Meta app). Revisit after 3 months of Search Console data, and after the free inputs exist: LinkedIn company page, photos, a testimonial. If something is bought first, it should be Mixpost ($299 once) or Buffer at $5–10/mo, not a $29+/mo subscription.

Log

  • 2026-11-11: Cody / Upfit Nation (UpfitLink, EE-20261107-2336-3RG2): reply draft (mail-draft, threaded on his 11/8 message) recaps spec + asks 12/24V, clamp voltage/current, shared 8/16 board, isolated USB cost OK, budget; booking link. NOT sent. (evening-call line removed 2026-11-11: booking hours are Mon 11-13, Tue/Thu 13-16 ET).
  • 2026-11-11: Zeki Keles / Vulize call (2026-11-10, 33.5 min) filed on NAS per SOP-048 as CM-2026-006 (8 files, SHA-256 verified), notes.md written from transcript; AirPods were mic+output so the other side is mostly missing. Mac original moved to Trash.
  • 2026-11-10: Nashoba: Angel sent the redline 2026-11-09 17:41 PT. Chris replied (msg 1a1c36793b9d2ab2) with 5 questions on AI tools under §5; OK with general AI use, wants prior written approval before NICS material goes into third-party AI. Reply draft (not sent): tools = KiCad local, Claude paid, Codex; training off (Angel to confirm both toggles before sending); policy links; NAS storage, §11 deletion; agrees to AI only with Nashoba's prior email approval; revised on Angel's instruction: paid commercial AI only (no free/open-source), not locked to one vendor (Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, possibly Grok etc.), training off, we tell Chris which service before use. Then shortened on Angel's instruction ("don't give our recipe"): no tool names, no workflow, no policy links; 5 one-line answers. Next: on his OK, redline v2 of §5 (AI by prior written approval; fab/enclosure email consent kept).
  • 2026-11-09: Nashoba NDA redline built on Angel's go ("push these changes"): 3(a) carve-out for work not using their info; 5 cloud/AI tools allowed (confidentiality, no training) + fab/contractor consent by email per order; 6(d) drop "contemporaneous" + know-how/pre-existing libraries carve-out; our entity, address, Principal Engineer, email filled. Original text word-diffed = his PDF; doc-check pass; markup render checked. Filed on NAS (redline + as-received), register AG-2026-005 = draft. Reply draft with redline in Gmail thread (mail-draft), NOT sent. Next: Chris returns a clean final, Angel signs.
  • 2026-11-09: All three Nov 9 calls filed on NAS communications/2026/ per SOP-048 (recording, audio only, screen x2, metadata, transcript, notes; SHA-256 verified): CM-2026-003 Brett Martin (earlier copy of its recording was truncated at 297 of 476 MB and its register row missing; both fixed), CM-2026-004 ORVELION (Darius Thomas), CM-2026-005 Nashoba (Chris Young). Chris call: $750 review credited to the next phase, KiCad deliverable, 3-4 boards in ~3 weeks if parts are US-stock, Chris wants NDA before discussing a power-grid direction; Claude read the transcript before any NDA was in force.
  • 2026-11-09: Nashoba NDA redline (NAS draft-redline.docx) verified: word diff vs as-received PDF = only our tracked edits; doc-check pass. Reply draft in thread 1a1c250bc6d873a2 said "attached" but had no attachment; redline now attached. Not sent: Angel sends. Venue (Clark County NV) left as written.
  • 2026-11-09: Nashoba (Chris Young) call held 15:00; he sent his one-way NDA (thread 1a1c250bc6d873a2, NV law, Clark County venue, 3-yr term, 5-yr tail per disclosure). Reviewed per SOP-046: no attorney trigger (no IP assignment, no non-compete, no indemnity). Blocking: §5 needs prior written consent for any contractor, fab or external party (covers cloud AI tools and JLC/PCBWay). Weak spots: one-way, §6(d) independent development needs "contemporaneous written records", §3(a) bars use for "competing development". Not signed; waiting on Angel's choice of redline asks.
  • 2026-11-09: Darius/ELQARIS: Phase 1 spec found to match off-the-shelf kits (iN-Command NCTP100 ~$245, TireMinder TPMS-APP-4 ~$378, Dexter DEX360 $7.99-9.99/mo). Angel's call: tell Darius he's better off buying one; Gmail draft reply (unsent) on thread 1a1c164cb8fb333b asks what ELQARIS does beyond them (bearing/load/stability). Proposal on hold until he answers.
  • 2026-11-09: Darius follow-up emails (3, after the call): gooseneck confirmed, external TPMS sensors, iPhone-sized weather-resistant hub, app dashboard with trailer graphic + pairing flow for moving hub, $15k is all-in incl. app, wants cost breakdown + ways to stay in budget, proposal ideally by Mon 2026-11-23; concept image attached (thread 1a1c164cb8fb333b, not viewed: connector can't download attachments). Proposal draft updated.
  • 2026-11-09: Darius Thomas (ELQARIS) call held 12:00 ET, 16 min; recording in ~/Movies/EmbeddedEra Meet/Meeting 09_11_26_11_58_45_2026-11-09_16-58 (not yet filed per SOP-048; no spoken recording consent in the transcript). Angel said on the call: EmbeddedEra can help with iPhone, Android and web apps (supersedes the 11-06 "app not claimed" note for this lead); $15k may not cover everything; feasibility phase fixed-price/capped; 3D-printed housing now, mechanical partner later; off-the-shelf TPMS sensors to save cost; deliverables his on payment; written proposal with phases "within the next week" (by ~11-16), may take longer if questions. Darius asked for proposal with milestones, pricing, timeline, deliverables, NDA process. Draft proposal (unsent, prices are Claude's placeholders): https://claude.ai/artifact/BBbWX8kcxLW19kZZPYMhq5
  • 2026-11-06: New lead Darius Thomas, ORVELION Technologies (EE-20261106-1634-MLT4, dariusthomas23@gmail.com, 678-983-8909): ELQARIS wireless trailer safety monitor, hardware + smartphone app prototype, idea stage, ~$15k budget, asks feasibility/cost/timeline/IP; came via an AI assistant / our online tools. Call booked Mon Nov 9 12:00 ET. Reply drafted (not sent): confirms call, 5 pre-call questions, suggests fixed-price feasibility phase first, NDA + ownership of paid work. App development not claimed as an in-house service (no evidence we offer it); decide on the call whether we partner or scope a simple test app.
  • 2026-11-06: DFX1 MNDA countersigned by Claude on Angel's explicit instruction ("Sign it for me"): times-italic name on By line, date, /s/ line per SOP-046; render checked (doc-check flags only the intended text-on-signature-line overlap). Filed executed, redline and as-received copies removed, register = executed, reply draft with PDF created.
  • 2026-11-06: DFX1: Mike accepted all 3 redline changes and sent his signed clean final (NAS legal/agreements/2026-11-06 DFX1 Forensics - MNDA - signed-by-them.pdf); word diff vs our agreed text = PDF hyphenation + his date only. Countersign blocked pending Angel's explicit OK (auto-mode refused e-signing on his behalf). Nashoba: Chris rebooked for Mon Nov 9 15:00 ET (20 min).
  • 2026-11-06: Nashoba: Chris missed the 10:00 call (calendar alert failed), apologized and asked to reschedule. Reschedule reply drafted (thread "Meeting", booking link + agenda), not sent. The post-call recap draft (review fee $750 etc.) was deleted since no call happened; reuse its content after the real call.
  • 2026-11-06: DFX1 redline built (wording reproduced from his PDF, word diff = only our 9 edits; doc-check pass, markup render checked), filed on NAS with as-received PDF, register AG-2026-004 = draft. Reply draft re-made via mail-draft with the docx attached; the earlier text-only draft deleted.
  • 2026-11-06: DFX1 NDA reply drafted in Gmail (not sent): asks §6(b) assignment on payment in full (+§8 deliver only paid Work Product), inventions "specific to" DFX1 designs, patent paperwork at DFX1 expense, §3(d) cloud/AI tools allowed with no training; fabs via per-order email consent; gives address and title Principal Engineer; asks Mike to send updated version, Angel signs the clean final.
  • 2026-11-06: DFX1 Forensics (Mike Gemmell, CM5 + i.MX 8M Plus carrier, KiCad 10, ~800 parts; Gmail thread 1a1b0bed01ee1d88) sent their mutual NDA (VA law, Fauquier County, 2-yr disclosure window, 5-yr survival). Reviewed: §6(b) assigns all Work Product + inventions to DFX1 immediately (SOP-046 attorney trigger), §6(c) perpetual licence of our pre-existing tools, §3(d) no non-employee contractor or non-US person without email consent (blocks offshore fabs and possibly cloud AI), §6(d) no publicity even anonymized, §13(b) only a both-signed doc citing 13(b) can override. Not signed; waiting on Angel's choice of redline asks.
  • 2026-11-06: Nashoba Technologies (Christopher Young, NICS supervisory controller, Altium takeover, ESP32-C5/INA260/TMP102/MCP2515, 3–5 protos, 4–6 wk, self-funded; Gmail thread 1a1a9171fa49ca46): call Fri 11/6 10:00 ET. Follow-up draft in Gmail (not sent) proposes $750 fixed review, 5 business days, credited to M1, milestones M1–M5. Fee and credit await Angel's OK.
  • 2026-11-01: Shower Drying Technologies became its own project note shower-drying-technologies; Jay answered the 16 questions and approved private AI tools in writing.
  • 2026-10-29: NDA gap in practice: Claude read the 10-29 call note/transcript and audio this session at Angel's request (draft email + EraScope label fix) before Shower Drying gave a written AI-use OK; the questions draft asks for it (Q16). No Codex/OpenAI use; derived files kept on NAS only.
  • 2026-10-29: Shower Drying follow-up questions email (17 questions: motor/power, wireless, enclosure, cert, project, AI-tools OK, NDA receipt) left as Gmail draft on thread 1a15a7e84f7b87fd, cc Brandon; not sent. Our commitment from the call: find NC injection-molding and sheet-metal contacts. Jay is sending an RFQ packet.
  • 2026-10-29: Shower Drying (AG-2026-003) intro call 16:17 ET, 31.5 min, filed on NAS communications/2026/2026-10-29 Shower Drying Technologies - intro call - * (recording, audio, screen x2, transcript.json, metadata, notes.md), SHA-256 verified; register CM-2026-002; Mac originals moved to Trash. Consent column still blank. Vault call note meetings/calls/2026-10-29-technical-partnership-meeting-shower-drying-unit-prototype.md holds NDA content.
  • 2026-10-22: Shower Drying Technologies size check: no public footprint. Website = GoDaddy parked page; domain registered 2025-11-09; no news, funding, LinkedIn-visible team or registry hit found by web search (NC SOS not checked directly, JS site). Only known people: Jay (James) Harris, Co-Founder, so 2+ founders. Read as pre-revenue, pre-product startup. Implication: ask about budget/funding on the intro call; deposit or phased billing before engineering work.
  • 2026-10-27: Shower Drying intro call booked Thu 2026-10-29 16:20 EDT (Jay + Brandon). Prep brief on NAS customers/Shower Drying Technologies/notes/2026-10-29 intro call prep.md. Their website is a parked domain; no public footprint found. Open before call: Angel decides whether to give a Phase 0 price range.
  • 2026-10-27: Friending NDA: Gabor's revised .docx differs from our redline in 4 places, not the 3 his email named: para 3 AI/cloud tools need Friending's prior written approval; para 6 know-how excludes their designs/specs/algorithms "whether or not retained in unaided memory"; para 10 five years; and unannounced, para 2(d) independent development must be shown by contemporaneous written records. Angel accepted as is; clean final built on our layout-fixed file with his exact wording (text diff = signature only), doc-check --final pass, e-signed, filed, reply drafted.
  • 2026-10-23: Created NAS customer folder EmbeddedEra/customers/Shower Drying Technologies/ modeled on Blossman Gas (README, CONTEXT, CLAUDE, notes/, received/, work/); AI use and fabs marked NOT approved (NDA 4b). Jay's original NDA scan filed under received/.
  • 2026-10-23: Shower Drying Technologies NDA signed as written by Angel (Co-Owner; e-signature overlay on Jay's scanned PDF, dated 10/23/2026) per his go-ahead; filed on NAS as 2026-10-22 Shower Drying Technologies - NDA - signed-by-us.pdf, register AG-2026-003 signed by us, not yet returned. Reply to Jay (signed PDF + embeddedera.com/book for the afternoon call) is a Gmail draft on thread 1a15a7e84f7b87fd, not sent. AI-clause gap left open (no cloud AI on his documents).
  • 2026-10-30: Blossman closed. Barry replied 14:46Z to the nudge: Blossman will not move forward with EmbeddedEra on Home Base (kind words on enthusiasm/initiative). Thank-you reply is an UNSENT Gmail draft; it commits to MNDA 3.3 (destroy all copies + notes, officer certificate, or return on request). Lead lost after the first-read email; no price was ever given.
  • 2026-10-30: Blossman: first-read email actually went out 2026-10-23 11:52Z (Gmail Sent), not 10/20; no reply from Barry in 7 days. Follow-up nudge (asks if they decided, offers a call, restates agreement + board + SD cards) sent by Angel 2026-10-30 (Gmail Sent).
  • 2026-10-30: Angel: discard all 13 drafts, nothing important (he discards them by hand; Claude does not hard-delete). Misha (BBA, asked 10/19 which machine) is still unanswered; the 3 cold intros were never sent.
  • 2026-10-30: Gmail drafts audit, 13 drafts. Connector cannot trash drafts and delete_draft is permanent, so Angel discards by hand. Done or superseded: old Luke reply (sent version 10/28), Apr soldering-machine request, both #137 drafts. Still live: reply to Misha picking BBA-331HX (unsent, Misha asked 10/19). Need a decision: Ebyte PI (placeholder), Yara Spanish review + CPA letter (placeholders), Paul testimonial, 3 cold intros (FlexGen, Electroswitch, Wasatch, unsent since 9/17), "Invoice paul parts" memo.
  • 2026-10-22: Shower Drying Technologies NDA (Gmail msg 1a163e3d4ccadd3b, file 261022_09_44_38.pdf) reviewed under SOP-046. One-way (protects them only), NC law, exclusive venue Pitt County state courts (§17). Purpose (§1) = feasibility, prelim specs, cost estimate; dev work needs separate written OK. Exclusions incl. prior knowledge and independent development (§3a,d) + general-know-how sentence. Contractors with need-to-know allowed if bound equally (§4d). §5/§6: no IP assignment, no licence, new IP left to a later agreement. §7 no reverse engineering of their prototypes/samples without written consent. §9 return/destroy in 15 business days, backup carve-out. §11 5 yrs per disclosure, trade secrets indefinite. No indemnity, non-compete, non-solicit, exclusivity or fee clause, so no attorney needed (SOP-046 step 2). Gap: cloud AI tools not addressed; §4b bars disclosure to any entity, so no Claude/ChatGPT on their docs unless a clause is added. Receiving Party block blank: EmbeddedEra LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company, 1001 Ridge Drive, Clayton NC 27520.
  • 2026-10-20: New inquiry EE-20261020-1406-MTXY, James Harris, Shower Drying Technologies (NC startup; 120 VAC appliance: AC motor control, wireless remote, timer, dimmable LED; wants schematic/PCB/firmware/prototype/production, UL-ready; NDA before requirements). Domain real (M365 mail, registered 2025-11-09), nothing else verified. Reply left as a Gmail draft, not sent: confirms capability, says UL/ETL is lab-issued and we design for it, offers NDA-first or intro call, scoping questions held back for the call; Angel sent it 2026-10-20 19:10 UTC (verified in Gmail Sent). No mains-AC or UL-listed product on record in the vault, so the draft claims no such experience; insurance (E&O/product liability) is still an open gap before taking safety-critical work.
  • 2026-10-20: Blossman (AG-2026-001): Barry approved paid private AI on his files (email 10/20); read-only review done, findings and win plan on the NAS only (customers/Blossman Gas/notes/). Reply (no price, board-plus-display ask, call this week) sent by Angel 2026-10-20. Price goes on the call, not in email. KiCad conversion and any code changes stay on hold until a signed OK or services agreement (MNDA 2.3/7.4).
  • 2026-10-15: Blossman files are on the NAS at EmbeddedEra/customers/Blossman Gas/. Barry sent two zips (Altium project files, firmware), stored under received/2026-10-15 from Barry Rowton/. Not opened, not unzipped, no work started; the folder README lists each delivery and the MNDA limits. New pattern: customer files go in customers/<Company>/received|work. SOP-030 still points design files at precious/EmbeddedEra; that needs fixing. Call recording + transcript (iPhone named it "Ridge Dr") renamed to communications/2026/2026-10-15 Blossman Gas - meeting - *, register CM-2026-001.
  • 2026-10-15: Barry (Blossman, AG-2026-001) asked which AI services we would use, for his IT approval. Reply drafted in Gmail, not sent: Claude (Anthropic, Max plan) + ChatGPT/Codex (OpenAI, Pro plan), training off, files kept on our systems. Before sending, check that the model-training setting is off in both accounts. MNDA 2.3 (no derivative works) still has to be overridden by the services agreement before we change their code.
  • 2026-10-15: Lead source for Blossman Gas (Barry Rowton, AG-2026-001): he told the owner he found EmbeddedEra by asking an AI. Which AI and what he asked: not known yet. Details in embeddedera-site Log.
  • 2026-09-27: EIN recorded (99-2537132); Company facts table added; Etsy shop Oddly Fitting Goods opened under the LLC as an Incorporated business.
  • 2026-09-11: Affiliate scout done; PCBWay first. Lunch checklist event created on Angel's calendar (12:00–13:00) for the Mac-only tasks.
  • 2026-09-11: Note created. Bing Places done by Angel.
  • 2026-10-12: Facebook Marketplace services listing kit (instructions for an outside AI, field text, 3 studio photos) shared unlisted at https://marketplace.ee-share.pages.dev (ee-share Pages project, branch marketplace, noindex header + robots.txt; production branch still serves the Cricket ad). Price field = $1 placeholder per the one-place pricing rule. Private copy: https://claude.ai/artifact/6duGx736hB3RvTN58fN38q.
  • 2026-10-14: Blossman Gas MNDA (request EE-20261009-0703-QPLT) reviewed and e-signed by Angel as Co-Owner; nothing unusual, but 2.3 (no derivative works) and 3.1 (no third parties incl. fab/cloud AI without written approval) must be overridden by the services agreement before work on their code. New SOP-046 Agreements Register: agreements live in NAS EmbeddedEra/legal/agreements/ + register.csv (AG-2026-001 = Blossman). Staged at ~/Downloads/NAS-staging on the Mac because the NAS was off-network; still to do on the shop LAN: copy it to /mnt/storage/EmbeddedEra/legal/agreements, restrict legal/ to Administration in Samba, run sop-index-build + sop-deploy on the server.
  • 2026-10-14: Signed Blossman MNDA sent to Barry 13:25 ET (AG-2026-001 now Executed). That email asked AI-tool approval for code review and analysis only; ask on the 2026-10-15 14:20 ET call for approval across the organization and confirm it by email. Updated register.csv is only in ~/Downloads/NAS-staging on the Mac (NAS dropped off); copy it to legal/agreements on the NAS.
  • 2026-10-14: Friending, Inc. (AttendeeMatch, Gabor Kadas, request EE-20261013-1746-JY4H) MNDA: reviewed; sent back 15:31 ET with tracked changes (independent-development exclusion, general know-how, analyses narrowed, cloud/AI tools allowed without training, NC law + Wake County, 3-year term) and signed by Angel as Principal Engineer. Register AG-2026-002 signed by us, not yet returned, file on NAS legal/agreements. The NAS register.csv now has this row; the Mac's ~/Downloads/NAS-staging copy does not, so merge rather than overwrite when copying it over.
  • 2026-10-14: Friending NDA switched to the standard process: unsigned redline re-sent replacing the signed copy; both sign a clean final once wording is agreed. Register AG-2026-002 now Draft, NAS file 2026-10-14 Friending - MNDA - draft-redline.docx. SOP-046 v1.1 makes unsigned-redline → clean final → both sign the house rule.
  • 2026-10-23: Reply DRAFT to Yara in the card thread (mail-draft, real Drive links): what changed, leans 6 (on both lists), asks her final pick + her title. Not sent.
  • 2026-10-23: Card ideas on Drive replaced in place with the new renders (/book link, Clayton, 30 mm wordmark, logo v2 now matches the live site) + Yara's picks image added. Open: final pick (Angel), Yara's title.
  • 2026-10-23: Yara replied to the card email: likes ideas 1, 5 and 6 (no title given for her card). Audit of the ideas art: Oct 16 renders still said cal.com/embeddedera (build.py was already fixed); re-rendered sheet + print PDF on server and vault, wordmark on 1 and 5 raised 1.1-1.15in to 1.2in (30 mm min), QRs re-decoded to /quote/. Drive copies not replaced yet. Open: logo v2 still unapproved (site on v1); idea 6 front trace runs into the mark's clear space.
  • 2026-10-16: Business card draft for Angel (front mark+name+title, back contacts + QR to /quote) at ~/design/business-cards/; print typeface picked for it: Inter + JetBrains Mono (free, OFL). Awaiting approval. doc-check flags the 2-line front as 'nearly empty' — false positive for cards.
  • 2026-10-16: 10 business card ideas published (brand/artwork/business-cards/business-card-ideas); awaiting Angel's pick.
  • 2026-10-16: Draft to Yara (yrosado@) asking her pick of the 10 card ideas; links the notebook page because no draft-with-attachment route works (no IMAP app password, GAM lacks the Gmail API).
  • 2026-10-16: Card ideas uploaded to Drive folder 'EmbeddedEra business cards - 10 ideas' (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YdeixO2it-Kl35yF-UOkml4ySw39c-VZ), Yara = commenter; draft to Yara now carries the Drive link. GAM domain-wide delegation granted for Drive + Gmail scopes.
  • 2026-10-16: Business card idea 8 (Title block) rebuilt to mirror KiCad worksheet 005 (logo cell with mark+wordmark, caption over value, big TITLE row, REV/SHEET cells; back QR above a 3-row contact block). Source ~/design/business-cards/ideas/build.py; QR re-decoded. Drive copies replaced in place (same links), so Yara's link shows the new version. Draft not re-sent.
  • 2026-10-20: Insurance (#88, Yara, overdue since 10/14, no quotes yet). Spanish Gmail draft to Yara with the 3 coverages, Hiscox/Next/Thimble, prefilled company facts, and open items (revenue, employees, limits). Older Sep 27 draft 'Qué necesitas en #137' is stale; delete it. Draft only, not sent.
  • 2026-10-20: Angel sent the insurance email to Yara (English). Next: Yara returns three quotes; if none by 2026-10-27, nudge her. Delete the stale Sep 27 draft.
  • 2026-11-09: Brett Martin intro call held and filed as CM-2026-003 (SOP-048). No LED approach or price agreed; Angel offered PCB review, in-house prototyping and time and materials; Brett to email what he wants tested.