House Desk and Pub are independently deployed products with separate authorization stores. They share a small platform layer for verified staff identity, edge admission, domain stewardship, and bounded service-to-service integrations.
| Area | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Identity and access | How Authentik, Cloudflare Access, and product-local permissions divide responsibility |
| Domains and routing | Which names are global services, tenant products, or compatibility origins |
| Integrations | How products exchange narrow data projections without sharing an authorization database |
| Security and privacy | Public documentation boundaries, least privilege, recovery, and sensitive material |
| Admin Kit | The brand-neutral control behavior House Desk consumes and Pub implements separately |
Future organization-wide standards belong at docs.affectivetech.com. This section records only the IHNYC implementation.