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type: someday
venture: ashcroft-tool-die
updated: 2026-09-23
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# Someday — Ashcroft Tool & Die

**What this file is for.** Projects that are real but are not being worked, so
they leave `projects/` without leaving the vault. The rule is anti-pattern 13:
**more than about seven active projects under one venture cannot be reviewed
weekly, and the weekly review refuses an eighth until one moves here.**

**It moves on the weekly review, not on a session's judgment mid-week.** Moving
something here is a decision that it is not being worked; that is Rowan's to make
and it belongs in the ritual that looks at the whole venture at once.

**Active projects in this venture: 1 of about seven.**

## Parked — the two futures that were not chosen

Recorded here rather than dropped, because **ADR-25 reversed the direction and
did not choose a different one.** The three futures are still three, and two of
them have no note anywhere else in this vault.

1. **Sell to a consolidator.** Not chosen, not ruled out, and **nothing in this
   vault values the company** — which is also missing input 1 of ADR-26. If
   [[claire-buy-in]] does not land, this is one of the two things left.
2. **Wind down over five years.** Not chosen, not ruled out. **Twenty-two people's
   jobs**, which is the fact ADR-05 used to give this venture its own folder in
   the first place.

**Neither is being worked and neither should be forgotten.** Rowan's own line on
the whole set:

> "I genuinely do not mind which of the three — I mind that it's been undecided
> for four months."

**Four months is now six and a half**, derived from that statement's date and
today's, not carried forward.

## What is not parked

**The related-party supply question** — whether Tool & Die supplies Halcyon. It is
**open and gated on [[Tomas Reyes]]** (`hobbs-cqf`), it is the one cross-venture
element in this venture's decision log, and when it is answered it becomes a new
ADR in `Atlas/decisions.md`. **Open is not parked.**