tegwick-control/areas/binky-company.md

Area: binky company

Purpose

Corporate information space and rescue/control surface for Binky Hedgehog GmbH (GmbH founded 2019).

Strategic Role

Binky is the Survival / Legitimacy Layer in PROJECT_LANDSCAPE.md. It stabilizes the legal and business vehicle so Helix, Coulomb, and commercial layers can operate without personal-liability drift. Personal liquidity and company liquidity are currently entangled — visibility here is meant to reduce that pressure without pretending the situation is resolved.

Activation Level

A3 Critical

Current State

Rescue mode. The company is legally active but under liquidity and compliance pressure. Known facts (from local archive notes, March 2026 — not verified as legal/accounting conclusions):

• Entity: Binky Hedgehog GmbH.
• Tax advisor: FSW (fsw.tax); prior contact Andrea Schulz (a.schulz@fsw.tax). Jahresabschluss 2023 document bundle received from FSW (March 2025); filing/completion status unclear — operator notes the Jahresabschluss 2023 as still missing on their side.
• Accounting platform: DATEV Unternehmen Online — FSW continues billing; purpose and necessity unclear.
• Banking: Qonto. Operator notes insufficient balance for upcoming Binect desk (Schreibtisch) charge and general short-term coverage.
• Office: Binect desk rental — contract extensions exist for 2025 and 2026; operator chose to continue but lacks liquidity to run the company comfortably.
• Meeting room (HUB31): Usage with Binect not yet settled; operator intends to invoice Binect (~€450 for 2 days at 25% of official room rate) and book as Binky income — not yet done.
• Revenue (partial): Coulomb member tegwick pays €8.99/mo via Stripe (net ~€8.55 to binky-hedgehog from November 2025). Customer cost-pass-through billing not active.
• Costs paid privately (leakage): Bubble.io ~$32/mo; various AI subscriptions; infrastructure partly on company, partly unclear.
• External context: Inquiry related to Familiengericht noted in operator archive — details and company impact unknown.

This card replaces generic seed content. Items below separate visibility from commitment.

Open Obligations

Legal, accounting, and tax surfaces that appear open or need human confirmation. No filing instructions — list only.

#	Obligation	Status / notes	Human input
1	Jahresabschluss 2023 — prepare, approve, file, publish	Documents received from FSW; operator still treats 2023 close as open	Confirm filed vs. draft-only; deadline exposure
2	Jahresabschluss 2024	Not surfaced in archive	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT] — started? advisor engaged?
3	Jahresabschluss 2025 (and ongoing bookkeeping)	Not surfaced	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT] — current books state
4	Corporate income tax / trade tax returns tied to above periods	Unknown filing state	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT]
5	VAT (USt) — registration, returns, reconciliation	Unknown	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT] — is Binky USt-pflichtig?
6	DATEV Unternehmen Online	FSW still billing	Confirm what it is used for; can it be paused?
7	Gesellschafterversammlung / GF-Beschlüsse for annual statements	2023 GV protocol exists in FSW bundle	Confirm 2024+ governance actions
8	Binect desk (Schreibtisch) contract	Extended 2025–2026; payment pressure on Qonto	Confirm next due date and amount
9	HUB31 / Binect meeting-room settlement	Unsettled; income not yet booked	Confirm counterparty, invoice terms, VAT treatment
10	Handelsregister / Geschäftsführer disclosures	Not reviewed	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT]
11	Social insurance / GF-Beiträge	Not reviewed	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT]
12	Intercompany / private-company boundary — Bubble, AI tools, hosting	Costs paid privately	Classify and formalize or stop leakage
13	Familiengericht-related inquiry	Mentioned in operator notes	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT] — scope and deadlines

Commitments

True commitments only (see TASKS.md for actionable items):

• Make the rescue situation explicit — in progress via TEGWICK-WP-0003 (this card).
• BINKY-001 — smallest advisor reactivation step (see TASKS.md).

Not commitments (remain options until promoted):

• Any revenue model below.
• Extending or terminating Binect desk beyond existing signed extensions.
• Full accounting cleanup beyond the first advisor contact.

Options

Business model and revenue paths — not commitments:

Option	Description	Signal / evidence
Coulomb membership billing	Subscription-style access to Coulomb / observatory stack	One paying member (tegwick, ~€8.55/mo net); infrastructure costs exceed revenue today
Meeting-room subletting / agency	Charge Binect (or others) for HUB31 room access at agreed share of list price	Draft economics: €450 for 2-day booking; not yet invoiced
Helix-built information products	Ship small products through Helix; Binky as invoicing entity	Aligns with landscape; no offer packaged yet
Binect-JS / developer tooling	Commercial SDK + Explorer (binect-js repo)	Product exists; publication/commercial path open
Consulting / integration services	Binect API, agentic workflow, markdown/doc tooling	Skills and repos exist; no positioned offer
Plenitude as commercial front	Route offers through Plenitude store when ready	Plenitude still A1 Incubating
Wind-down / dormancy	Reduce scope, cut recurring costs, minimal compliance mode	[NEEDS HUMAN INPUT] — viability vs. rescue intent

First revenue offer candidate (explore, not commit)

Coulomb membership / observatory access — extend the existing €8.99/mo pattern to a small number of known users before building a full Plenitude storefront. Lowest friction because payment rail and hosting already exist; gap is positioning, pricing clarity, and cost coverage math (see adaptive-pricing/projects/coulomb-pricing).

Open Decisions

• Is A3 Critical still correct, or does visibility alone change the urgency profile?
• Jahresabschluss 2023: filed, stuck, or only documents received?
• Keep DATEV Unternehmen Online while cash-constrained?
• Keep Binect desk through 2026 or seek cheaper legitimacy anchor?
• Which private-paid costs (Bubble, AI) must move onto company books vs. stop?
• Promote Coulomb membership from option to committed offer — when and at what price point?
• Wind-down vs. rescue — is that even on the table?

Risks

Survival risks ranked by apparent urgency (visibility only — not legal conclusions):

Priority	Risk	Why it matters
P0	Cash / liquidity gap	Qonto cannot cover imminent Binect desk; operator lacks private funds to bridge
P0	Accounting / tax backlog	2023 close unclear; 2024+ unknown — penalties and GF liability exposure possible
P1	Private-company cost leakage	Bubble, AI, and other tools paid privately erode runway and blur liability
P1	Unbooked receivable	HUB31/Binect settlement (~€450) not invoiced — income and VAT treatment delayed
P1	Recurring costs vs. revenue	Infrastructure (~€30+/mo domains/hosting) vs. ~€8.55/mo revenue
P2	Advisor relationship drift	FSW engaged historically; no recent status sync — open items may accumulate silently
P2	Contract continuity pressure	Desk extended to 2026 while liquidity failing — mismatch between commitment and capacity
P2	Familiengericht context	Unknown scope — may add personal distraction or disclosure obligations
P3	Control-repo false comfort	Documenting risks without BINKY-001 leaves pressure diffuse

Agentic Suitability

Agents may:

• draft and structure obligation/risk/option lists;
• cross-reference landscape and archive notes;
• prepare scoped tasks and decision records;
• summarize economics from non-secret project docs.

Agents must not:

• state tax, legal, or filing conclusions as facts;
• contact FSW, Binect, Finanzamt, or courts;
• move money, file returns, or sign contracts;
• promote options to commitments without human approval.

Next Surface

1. Human: Execute BINKY-001 — one email to FSW requesting status on Jahresabschluss 2023, DATEV billing, and open 2024/2025 items.
2. Human: Confirm or correct every [NEEDS HUMAN INPUT] row in Open Obligations.
3. Human: Decide whether to invoice Binect for HUB31 usage before next liquidity crunch.
4. Review: After advisor reply, update this card and decide next commitment (bookkeeping catch-up vs. cost reduction vs. revenue pilot).

Notes

• Archive source: ~/2binky/archiv/ (operator notes March 2026; FSW correspondence March 2025).
• Revenue reference: adaptive-pricing/projects/coulomb-pricing/README.md.
• Workplan: workplans/TEGWICK-WP-0003-binky-critical-path.md.
• Agent task: agent-tasks/binky-surface-critical-path.md.