Vibecode HighLevel

You are building a lean indie version of HighLevel.

Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt.

===== README.md =====
# HighLevel indie build

## Goal

Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core HighLevel workflow for one developer or a tiny team.

## Scope

Build one narrow local slice for one business: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages.

## Quick start

1. Install the documented dependencies.
2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`.
3. Run the development command chosen during implementation.
4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`.

## Honest limits

This build deliberately does not replace:
- the wider operating system: funnels, websites, reputation, memberships, and client portals
- agency sub-accounts, white-label SaaS resale, and centralized administration
- managed phone, SMS, and email delivery infrastructure
- calendar, payments, AI, reporting, mobile apps, and third-party integrations
- support, uptime, and compliance operations across the stack

If those capabilities are essential, use Twenty instead of pretending the gap is solved.

===== AGENTS.md =====
# Agent instructions

- Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build.
- Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief.
- Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims.
- Keep secrets out of source control and logs.
- Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths.
- Run the project checks before declaring the build complete.
- Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".

===== BUILD_PLAN.md =====
# Build plan

## Original build brief

Build a deliberately narrow local lead-management starter inspired by one slice of HighLevel, in an empty repository.
Do not portray it as a HighLevel replacement.
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Docker Compose; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages for one business.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all data locally by default and provide CSV import and export.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create contacts, companies, deals, notes, tasks, configurable pipeline stages, and a next-action dashboard.
Add a public lead form with spam protection, consent capture, validation, and a clear success state.
Add saved filters, search, duplicate detection, merge, and a chronological interaction timeline.
Implement email templates and manual campaign sends through one token-based provider, with unsubscribe, suppression, rate limits, retries, and send logs.
Add role-based access for a tiny team, an immutable activity log, backups, and a recovery command.
Seed a realistic demo workspace and document field mapping for imports.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Write focused tests for the core data flow and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, backup steps, and sending-domain setup.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out the operating-system breadth: agency sub-accounts, white-label resale, funnels, websites, memberships, phone and SMS provisioning, payment processing, OAuth integrations, workflow automation, AI, mobile apps, and enterprise reporting.
Do not claim to reproduce managed deliverability, telephony reliability, compliance operations, or a connector ecosystem.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

## Required capabilities

- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- self-hosted server
- verified sending domain
- optional email API credentials

## Delivery order

1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands.
2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow.
3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence.
4. Cover the critical path with automated tests.
5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step.

## Done when

- A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README.
- The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it.
- Tests cover the highest-risk behavior.
- Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.

===== .env.example =====
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced.
# Never put real credentials in this file.

APP_ENV=development
# Add only values required by the selected implementation.

You are building a lean indie version of HighLevel.

Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt.

===== README.md =====
# HighLevel indie build

## Goal

Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core HighLevel workflow for one developer or a tiny team.

## Scope

Build one narrow local slice for one business: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages.

## Quick start

1. Install the documented dependencies.
2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`.
3. Run the development command chosen during implementation.
4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`.

## Honest limits

This build deliberately does not replace:
- the wider operating system: funnels, websites, reputation, memberships, and client portals
- agency sub-accounts, white-label SaaS resale, and centralized administration
- managed phone, SMS, and email delivery infrastructure
- calendar, payments, AI, reporting, mobile apps, and third-party integrations
- support, uptime, and compliance operations across the stack

If those capabilities are essential, use Twenty instead of pretending the gap is solved.

===== AGENTS.md =====
# Agent instructions

- Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build.
- Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief.
- Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims.
- Keep secrets out of source control and logs.
- Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths.
- Run the project checks before declaring the build complete.
- Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".

===== BUILD_PLAN.md =====
# Build plan

## Original build brief

Build a deliberately narrow local lead-management starter inspired by one slice of HighLevel, in an empty repository.
Do not portray it as a HighLevel replacement.
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Docker Compose; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages for one business.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all data locally by default and provide CSV import and export.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create contacts, companies, deals, notes, tasks, configurable pipeline stages, and a next-action dashboard.
Add a public lead form with spam protection, consent capture, validation, and a clear success state.
Add saved filters, search, duplicate detection, merge, and a chronological interaction timeline.
Implement email templates and manual campaign sends through one token-based provider, with unsubscribe, suppression, rate limits, retries, and send logs.
Add role-based access for a tiny team, an immutable activity log, backups, and a recovery command.
Seed a realistic demo workspace and document field mapping for imports.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Write focused tests for the core data flow and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, backup steps, and sending-domain setup.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out the operating-system breadth: agency sub-accounts, white-label resale, funnels, websites, memberships, phone and SMS provisioning, payment processing, OAuth integrations, workflow automation, AI, mobile apps, and enterprise reporting.
Do not claim to reproduce managed deliverability, telephony reliability, compliance operations, or a connector ecosystem.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

## Required capabilities

- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- self-hosted server
- verified sending domain
- optional email API credentials

## Delivery order

1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands.
2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow.
3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence.
4. Cover the critical path with automated tests.
5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step.

## Done when

- A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README.
- The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it.
- Tests cover the highest-risk behavior.
- Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.

===== .env.example =====
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced.
# Never put real credentials in this file.

APP_ENV=development
# Add only values required by the selected implementation.

You are building a production product version of HighLevel.

Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt.

===== PRODUCT.md =====
# HighLevel product brief

## Problem

HighLevel is not a basic CRM. It is a broad operating system for agencies and businesses, bringing hundreds of features under one roof: lead capture, funnels, CRM, marketing, communications, booking, payments, websites, automation, AI, client sub-accounts, and SaaS resale. A constrained local lead-management starter is buildable, but a faithful replacement is not a one-shot project.

## Product outcome

Build one narrow local slice for one business: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages.

## Target user

A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo.

## Required capabilities

- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- self-hosted server
- verified sending domain
- optional email API credentials

## Explicit non-goals for v1

- the wider operating system: funnels, websites, reputation, memberships, and client portals
- agency sub-accounts, white-label SaaS resale, and centralized administration
- managed phone, SMS, and email delivery infrastructure
- calendar, payments, AI, reporting, mobile apps, and third-party integrations
- support, uptime, and compliance operations across the stack

## Success criteria

- The primary workflow is measurable end to end.
- Setup is reproducible in a clean environment.
- Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented.
- Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.

===== ARCHITECTURE.md =====
# Architecture

## Starting brief

Build a deliberately narrow local lead-management starter inspired by one slice of HighLevel, in an empty repository.
Do not portray it as a HighLevel replacement.
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Docker Compose; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages for one business.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all data locally by default and provide CSV import and export.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create contacts, companies, deals, notes, tasks, configurable pipeline stages, and a next-action dashboard.
Add a public lead form with spam protection, consent capture, validation, and a clear success state.
Add saved filters, search, duplicate detection, merge, and a chronological interaction timeline.
Implement email templates and manual campaign sends through one token-based provider, with unsubscribe, suppression, rate limits, retries, and send logs.
Add role-based access for a tiny team, an immutable activity log, backups, and a recovery command.
Seed a realistic demo workspace and document field mapping for imports.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Write focused tests for the core data flow and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, backup steps, and sending-domain setup.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out the operating-system breadth: agency sub-accounts, white-label resale, funnels, websites, memberships, phone and SMS provisioning, payment processing, OAuth integrations, workflow automation, AI, mobile apps, and enterprise reporting.
Do not claim to reproduce managed deliverability, telephony reliability, compliance operations, or a connector ecosystem.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

## Boundaries

Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors.

## Production baseline

- Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible.
- Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives.
- Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions.
- Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts.
- Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists.
- Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test.

## Decision records

For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.

===== AGENTS.md =====
# Agent instructions

- Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code.
- Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable.
- Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present.
- Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass.
- Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests.
- Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes.
- Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data.
- Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.

===== MILESTONES.md =====
# Delivery milestones

## M0 — Decisions and scaffold

- Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target.
- Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks.

## M1 — Core workflow

- Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests.
- Keep integrations behind interfaces.

## M2 — Trust layer

- Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards.
- Test abuse cases and destructive operations.

## M3 — Operability

- Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration.

## M4 — Release gate

- Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise.
- Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.

===== OPERATIONS.md =====
# Operations

## Before release

- Validate configuration and secrets at startup.
- Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them.
- Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership.
- Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations.

## Incident checklist

1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data.
2. Record the timeline and affected scope.
3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials.
4. Restore from a verified source when needed.
5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test.

## Launch constraint

Do not market omitted HighLevel capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.

# HighLevel indie build

## Goal

Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core HighLevel workflow for one developer or a tiny team.

## Scope

Build one narrow local slice for one business: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages.

## Quick start

1. Install the documented dependencies.
2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`.
3. Run the development command chosen during implementation.
4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`.

## Honest limits

This build deliberately does not replace:
- the wider operating system: funnels, websites, reputation, memberships, and client portals
- agency sub-accounts, white-label SaaS resale, and centralized administration
- managed phone, SMS, and email delivery infrastructure
- calendar, payments, AI, reporting, mobile apps, and third-party integrations
- support, uptime, and compliance operations across the stack

If those capabilities are essential, use Twenty instead of pretending the gap is solved.

# Agent instructions

- Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build.
- Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief.
- Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims.
- Keep secrets out of source control and logs.
- Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths.
- Run the project checks before declaring the build complete.
- Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".

# Build plan

## Original build brief

Build a deliberately narrow local lead-management starter inspired by one slice of HighLevel, in an empty repository.
Do not portray it as a HighLevel replacement.
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Docker Compose; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages for one business.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all data locally by default and provide CSV import and export.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create contacts, companies, deals, notes, tasks, configurable pipeline stages, and a next-action dashboard.
Add a public lead form with spam protection, consent capture, validation, and a clear success state.
Add saved filters, search, duplicate detection, merge, and a chronological interaction timeline.
Implement email templates and manual campaign sends through one token-based provider, with unsubscribe, suppression, rate limits, retries, and send logs.
Add role-based access for a tiny team, an immutable activity log, backups, and a recovery command.
Seed a realistic demo workspace and document field mapping for imports.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Write focused tests for the core data flow and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, backup steps, and sending-domain setup.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out the operating-system breadth: agency sub-accounts, white-label resale, funnels, websites, memberships, phone and SMS provisioning, payment processing, OAuth integrations, workflow automation, AI, mobile apps, and enterprise reporting.
Do not claim to reproduce managed deliverability, telephony reliability, compliance operations, or a connector ecosystem.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

## Required capabilities

- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- self-hosted server
- verified sending domain
- optional email API credentials

## Delivery order

1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands.
2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow.
3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence.
4. Cover the critical path with automated tests.
5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step.

## Done when

- A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README.
- The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it.
- Tests cover the highest-risk behavior.
- Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.

# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced.
# Never put real credentials in this file.

APP_ENV=development
# Add only values required by the selected implementation.

# HighLevel product brief

## Problem

HighLevel is not a basic CRM. It is a broad operating system for agencies and businesses, bringing hundreds of features under one roof: lead capture, funnels, CRM, marketing, communications, booking, payments, websites, automation, AI, client sub-accounts, and SaaS resale. A constrained local lead-management starter is buildable, but a faithful replacement is not a one-shot project.

## Product outcome

Build one narrow local slice for one business: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages.

## Target user

A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo.

## Required capabilities

- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- self-hosted server
- verified sending domain
- optional email API credentials

## Explicit non-goals for v1

- the wider operating system: funnels, websites, reputation, memberships, and client portals
- agency sub-accounts, white-label SaaS resale, and centralized administration
- managed phone, SMS, and email delivery infrastructure
- calendar, payments, AI, reporting, mobile apps, and third-party integrations
- support, uptime, and compliance operations across the stack

## Success criteria

- The primary workflow is measurable end to end.
- Setup is reproducible in a clean environment.
- Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented.
- Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.

# Architecture

## Starting brief

Build a deliberately narrow local lead-management starter inspired by one slice of HighLevel, in an empty repository.
Do not portray it as a HighLevel replacement.
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Docker Compose; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: capture inquiries, manage contacts and deals, schedule follow-ups, and send a few consented email messages for one business.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all data locally by default and provide CSV import and export.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create contacts, companies, deals, notes, tasks, configurable pipeline stages, and a next-action dashboard.
Add a public lead form with spam protection, consent capture, validation, and a clear success state.
Add saved filters, search, duplicate detection, merge, and a chronological interaction timeline.
Implement email templates and manual campaign sends through one token-based provider, with unsubscribe, suppression, rate limits, retries, and send logs.
Add role-based access for a tiny team, an immutable activity log, backups, and a recovery command.
Seed a realistic demo workspace and document field mapping for imports.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Write focused tests for the core data flow and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, backup steps, and sending-domain setup.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out the operating-system breadth: agency sub-accounts, white-label resale, funnels, websites, memberships, phone and SMS provisioning, payment processing, OAuth integrations, workflow automation, AI, mobile apps, and enterprise reporting.
Do not claim to reproduce managed deliverability, telephony reliability, compliance operations, or a connector ecosystem.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

## Boundaries

Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors.

## Production baseline

- Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible.
- Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives.
- Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions.
- Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts.
- Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists.
- Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test.

## Decision records

For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.

# Agent instructions

- Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code.
- Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable.
- Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present.
- Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass.
- Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests.
- Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes.
- Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data.
- Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.

# Delivery milestones

## M0 — Decisions and scaffold

- Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target.
- Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks.

## M1 — Core workflow

- Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests.
- Keep integrations behind interfaces.

## M2 — Trust layer

- Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards.
- Test abuse cases and destructive operations.

## M3 — Operability

- Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration.

## M4 — Release gate

- Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise.
- Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.

# Operations

## Before release

- Validate configuration and secrets at startup.
- Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them.
- Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership.
- Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations.

## Incident checklist

1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data.
2. Record the timeline and affected scope.
3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials.
4. Restore from a verified source when needed.
5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test.

## Launch constraint

Do not market omitted HighLevel capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.

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