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BarkBowlTime-commerce dogfooding
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Time-commerce dogfooding, dressed like premium kibble.

The time-commerce dogfood site that shows where software time really goes.

BarkBowl turns meetings, bugs, scope creep, incidents, AI overclaiming, and hidden review work into fake dog-food products priced in team time instead of money.

Take the 2-minute checkup Browse work snacks See how the joke works
  • No real dog food
  • No money
  • Priced in person-hours
  • Drafts need human review
  • Evidence is inspectable
  • No runtime control
Premium Work SnacksBarkBowl

Feature Kibble with trace acceptance criteria.

Time Burn
6 p-h
Kibble
42
Draft receipt

What this proves: the team can discuss hidden work before committing minutes.

Requires human review

Start with the problem you recognize

Every card is a shortcut from joke to lesson.

Our meetings eat half the sprint.Open path → Tiny requests keep getting expensive.Open path → Bugs return like they have keys.Open path → Refactors are always “after this release.”Open path → Incidents interrupt everything.Open path → AI/process claims outrun our proof.Open path → We have evidence, but it is scattered.Open path → Sometimes the safest move is no move.Open path →

How BarkBowl works in 3 minutes

Pick pain. See burn. Leave with a reviewable receipt.

  1. Pick a team pain.
  2. See the hidden time.
  3. Learn the failure pattern.
  4. Build a draft receipt.
  5. Review with a human before doing real work.

Public Diagnostics

A read-only deployment snapshot with no write side effects.

Use this route to compare package, seed, route, evidence, and endpoint contracts before claiming a deployment is current.

Package
1.29.0
Seed
2026.06.11.031
Evidence assets
423
Routes
92

Diagnostics Snapshot REST endpoint

/wp-json/barkbowl/v1/diagnostics/snapshot

Minimal public-safe fallback when settings/runtime endpoints are stale or unavailable.

Public Settings endpoint

/wp-json/barkbowl/v1/settings/public

Primary public package, seed, count, and status contract.

Runtime Verification endpoint

/wp-json/barkbowl/v1/runtime/verification

Full smoke report with route, seed, glossary, evidence, and boundary checks.

Deployment Runbook alias endpoint

/wp-json/barkbowl/v1/deployment/runbook

Alias for the deployment-readiness checklist requested by the operator prompt.

Operator steps
  1. Confirm plugin and theme show 1.29.0 in WordPress Admin.
  2. Run the seeder twice and confirm seeded version 2026.06.11.031.
  3. Save Settings → Permalinks and clear every cache layer.
  4. Compare Public Diagnostics, Runtime Verification, Evaluation Lab, Dogfood Lab, and homepage evidence values.
  5. Exercise Time Bowl add/update/remove/expire/commit and copy/print the receipt.
  6. Record UTC evidence and remaining warnings in UAIX memory before claiming deployment complete.

Public Diagnostics is a read-only dogfood smoke surface. It does not approve deployment, certify safety, validate credentials, probe private networks, train models, or replace human review.

What BarkBowl does not do

The kennel has boundaries.

  • No purchases
  • No payment
  • No automatic approval
  • No certification
  • No runtime control
  • No private-network probing
  • No model training