Founder Build Record

Build it. Date it. Keep the evidence.

A public-safe chronological record of material work associated with Dwayne D’Key. The record is designed to show progression over time without confusing private notes, plans or ambitions with completed public facts.

Evidence posture

Entries should be dated, proportionate and supportable. Material corrections remain part of the record rather than being silently rewritten.

Established 19 August 2026
Purpose

A record of progress, not a performance of success.

The build record exists to preserve a credible trail of delivery, iteration, setbacks, corrections and institutional development over time.

Completed work

Public events, published systems and other work that can be evidenced.

Material releases

Meaningful founder-site or ecosystem releases where the version itself forms part of the record.

Corrections

Substantive public corrections are retained as evidence of governance rather than treated as something to hide.

Scope boundary: this page is not a financial disclosure, private diary, regulated statement or claim that every experiment succeeded. Personal records may be preserved separately and published later only where there is a clear reason to do so.

Build Ledger

Recorded milestones.

The initial ledger starts with already supportable public milestones and the establishment of this record itself.

September precision and consistency pass completed

Founder site v22.7 aligns social-preview metadata with the Author identity, tightens repeated homepage language, optimises the Still Becoming book artwork for page delivery, clarifies Applied Science status language and reconciles machine-readable build records.

Still Becoming full-book mockup integrated

Founder site v22.6 replaced the flat book artwork with the approved full physical-book presentation on the homepage and Author page while retaining the public status: manuscript in development.

Author identity + September ecosystem snapshot

Founder site v22.5 adds a dedicated Author page for Still Becoming, promotes official social routes more clearly, updates the Now snapshot to 30 September, records D’Key Applied Science as the developing technology umbrella and recognises the D’Key Digital public site as live.

D’Key Digital domain footprint recorded

Founder site v22.4 added the secured official D’Key Digital domains — dkeydigital.com and dkeydigital.co.uk — to the ecosystem, selected-builds and current-focus records while retaining the branch’s in-development status until the commercial website, domain email and service front door are operational.

Founder portrait mobile containment refined

Founder site v22.3 refined the portrait presentation so the full black-and-white framed image displays more naturally on mobile, reducing aggressive crop behaviour and improving the visibility of the gold frame without changing the broader site architecture.

Founder portrait integrated into the public story

Founder site v22.2 completed the final founder-identity pass by integrating a single intentional black-and-white portrait into the Founder Story layer, giving the public record a recognisable human presence without turning the site into a photo gallery or changing its restrained black-and-gold visual language.

Visual Precision & Layout Refinement completed

Founder site v22.1 used the live browser presentation as the audit reference and corrected horizontal containment, footer inconsistency, header density, hero proportions, typography rhythm, fixed card heights and secondary-page scale without adding new founder claims or public-content architecture.

Launch Candidate Consolidation completed

Founder site v22.0 froze the public architecture for deployment testing, reconciled release metadata across machine-readable files, removed visitor-facing build jargon, added a custom 404 route, cleaned unused deployment assets and introduced release-integrity/checklist artefacts.

Full Presentation & UX Polish completed

Founder site v21.9 consolidated presentation and interaction quality ahead of the v22.0 launch candidate: earlier responsive navigation, keyboard and skip-navigation improvements, stronger tap targets, cleaner mobile scanning, consistent hover/focus behaviour and a lighter homepage banner payload.

Now / Current Focus + Journey Timeline established

Founder site v21.8 added a point-in-time current-focus layer with explicit maturity labels and a verified public journey timeline. The page separates operational work, controlled pilots, development activity and experiments rather than presenting every active lane as equally mature.

Founder Notes & Writing Archive established

Founder site v21.7 created a dedicated archive for established founder principles and future authored notes, field observations and essays, with archive dates, writing states and an explicit no-filler publication standard.

Selected Builds case-study layer established

Founder site v21.6 added evidence-led case studies using a consistent Need → Build → Iteration → Present outcome → Evidence → Lesson structure, with explicit status labels and no unsupported revenue, scale or success claims.

Founder Story framework established

Founder site v21.5 added a source-led journey layer for documenting earlier history, current building, setbacks and lessons while explicitly separating verified fact, founder recollection and private evidence.

Founder Media archive architecture established

Founder site v21.4 created a dedicated public multimedia layer for genuine founder video, audio, music and visual material, with explicit separation from the editorial Press & Media kit and from private founder evidence.

Founder Build Record established

The founder website gained a dedicated chronological evidence layer, separating development history from the formal Public Record and from private founder material.

Public-recognition governance hardening

Founder site v21.2 corrected the D’Key Civic public-record wording so the dormant-company boundary was explicit and no trading implication was created.

Father’s Day Family Social delivered

D’Key Civic delivered an indoor family event in Swindon with games, creative activity, recognition and refreshments.

Community Children’s Easter Egg Hunt + Games delivered

D’Key Civic delivered a family event at Christ Church Community Centre in Old Town, Swindon.

Record Standard

What earns a place in the ledger.

Dated

Use the real date of delivery, release or correction wherever it is known.

Supportable

Prefer records, files, photographs, live systems, published reports or other evidence over memory alone.

Proportionate

Record material progress. Do not inflate routine activity into institutional achievement.

Correctable

If a factual entry changes, preserve the correction trail and distinguish the original state from the revised position.

Build. Record. Improve.

The purpose of a long record is not to appear finished. It is to make sustained work, learning and improvement visible over time.

Submit a factual correction