Business Fixtures

Every Sink ships with Recipes: guided playbooks your assistant fetches to learn how a common task is done with that tool's own operations. A Recipe is advice: fetching one runs nothing, the assistant still does the work step by step, and the same Recipes ship in the Community and Business editions alike.

A Fixture is different. It is a separately licensed program that runs a complete job, from reading the sources to writing the finished documents, according to a plan your organization sets once. The plan belongs to you, not to the assistant: it names the sources, the folders, the checks, and where the results go, and a run can only touch what the plan allows. If the plan is wrong, the Fixture refuses to start rather than failing halfway. Recipes make an assistant capable; Fixtures make a job dependable.

Fixtures are in development with founding customers. The License calls them Workflow Packs.

Picture the month-end set: a CSV export from the finance system, the workbook built from it, the written report, and the board deck. They are supposed to agree, and every month someone checks by eye. A Fixture run does the checking.

The plan names each source, the figures to compare, and the relationships that must hold: this total equals that one, these lines sum to that figure, this value may drift from that one within a stated tolerance. The run copies the sources into its own folder, fingerprints them so nothing can change unnoticed, and reads them back through the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Sinks. Numbers are read as numbers, dates as dates, and a cell that holds a formula is treated as something to verify, not as a fact. Every relationship is tested, and every value is recorded with its exact location: the cell, the table row, the slide, the shape.

• Reconcile checks a workbook, a report, and a deck against one another and lists every exception with its severity, the size of the difference, the tolerance it broke, and where each side sits. A clean result is a record for a reviewer, not an approval. A discrepancy, an input the plan does not recognize, a source that changed mid-run, or a failure stops the job instead of letting it guess.
• Load brings a CSV export into the governed workbook. The connector reads and validates the export and explains what it found; the workbook stays the source your documents are built from.
• Refresh carries checked Excel values into new copies of the Word report and the PowerPoint deck, reads the copies back to confirm every value landed, and marks them as needing review. The originals are never edited.
• Publish writes a checked result to the configured output folder only after the required checks pass, and keeps a record of what went out.

Each run leaves its evidence and its exception report in the run folder. One job runs at a time, and a second request is told the Fixture is busy rather than being queued silently.

The Recipes belong to the Sinks: they are guidance for an assistant, they ship in every edition, and they are not Fixtures.

Business includes the platform Fixtures run on: the Windows installer, the license portal, the update channel, and the subscription gate that ties a Fixture to an active subscription. No Fixture is included with a Business subscription at launch. Reconcile, Load, Refresh, and Publish are being built with founding customers and will be sold separately as each is released. The Recipes stay where they are, in every Sink, in every edition.

A Fixture is licensed to the organization that holds the Subscription, for the same user band and the same devices as the Software. Fixture use is tied to an active Business subscription, which the Software confirms with our server; that check carries no document content. The right to use Fixtures ends when the Subscription ends, after the twenty-one-day Grace Period, and the four Sinks keep working regardless.

During the Grace Period the Subscription, Fixture access, and limited support continue; updates stop on the day of the failed charge and resume when a payment succeeds, and installer re-downloads stop on the last day of the Term. A payment inside the Grace Period continues the Term from the original Renewal Date. A renewal needs no action from you. Fixtures carry Business limited support by email, with a three-business-day response target, Korea Standard Time, during the launch window. Licensing questions go to [email protected].

Business Fixtures run on Windows, through your AI assistant, and drive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint through the Sinks. Claude Code and the Codex CLI are verified; other MCP-capable assistants are expected to work, with no warranty. Your organization sets the source folders, the tools, the plan, and the output location before a run, and nothing the assistant says during the run can change them. A check never modifies the workbook, report, or deck it reads; Refresh creates new copies instead. The Fixtures themselves send nothing about your documents to KitchenSink4AI, and the subscription check described above carries no document content.

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