Working documents for the QR ordering venture. Internal — these carry pricing, margins and strategy, so they live off the demo domain the cafés see.
BUILD SPEC · AUGUST 2026Eight either/or questions that design a café's app while they tap — the sequence, the countdown and celebration mechanics, the 13-tap budget, and where an AI model does and doesn't belong.
RESEARCH NOTE · 15 AUGUST 2026Shop Pay, Airwallex and crypto against PayPal QR (1.2%): none beats it for a table; pay-by-bank on PayID/PayTo (QwikPay $0 a transaction, eftpos eQR coming) does, and what to add to page 2 of the pitch.
RESEARCH BRIEF · 15 AUGUST 2026Whether to put a phone agent on the menu (yes — missed-call text-back first, then answering that books into our own app, then service calls only), what it costs per client, the Australian rules, and a ranked view of SMS, email, WhatsApp, Messenger, RCS and the phone for our clients' customers.
RESEARCH BRIEF · AUGUST 2026What AI agents can own across every function, what the measured evidence says, unit economics at 1 and 50 clients, Australian compliance, and a three-level roadmap with kill rules.
Live demo for pitching: demo.lotushosting.org — customer ordering page, /counter, /qr, /pitch. NOT INDEXED