Document Every Purchase
Update the log after each quote, invoice, or sharpening report so your evidence trail is audit ready.
How to Use the Brand Validation Log
The brand validation workbook lives inside the project repository at docs/shear-brand-validation.md. It captures:
- Distributor sources, warranty clauses, and contact details for every approved shear brand.
- Pricing evidence (catalog screenshots, invoices) with capture dates.
- Servicing partners, turnaround times, and any exceptions raised during maintenance cycles.
Workflow
- Log every purchase – add brand, model, distributor URL, warranty verbiage, and capture date.
- Attach evidence – store screenshots or PDFs in
docs/pricing-evidence/and reference them in the log entry. - Record maintenance – note sharpening partner, method, price, and next due date so warranty compliance is provable.
- Update ROI tools – sync the data with the budget & ROI planner and any page tables referencing the brand.
Access
Open the latest version of the log in the repository: docs/shear-brand-validation.md.
The workbook is intentionally kept inside the repo to preserve audit trails and client-sensitive pricing data. Never publish the raw log publicly—summaries can be surfaced on live pages once evidence is captured.