Spec now describes what shipped: two settings, no leg locking

Marty's decisions, 18 September: two states rather than three, and no
ability for a leader to lock their leg. Also records the fix behind
Terry's original complaint — a personal link no longer falls through to
the company rotation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# How your link places people — a setting, not a rule # How your link places people — a setting, not a rule
**Status:** proposal, nothing built yet. For Marty, Terry and Clinton to agree on before we code it. **Status: BUILT AND LIVE**, 18 September 2026. Two settings, not three — see "what shipped" at the end.
**Written:** 18 September 2026 **For:** Marty, Terry, Clinton
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| **Team first** *(today's behaviour)* | Routes to the next position in your leg that still needs directs | Most people. Builds the team in order and gets your two qualified | | **Team first** *(today's behaviour)* | Routes to the next position in your leg that still needs directs | Most people. Builds the team in order and gets your two qualified |
| **Direct** | Every join lands directly under you, as depth in your leg | A leader deliberately building out one position | | **Direct** | Every join lands directly under you, as depth in your leg | A leader deliberately building out one position |
| **Follow my sponsor** | Mirrors whatever your sponsor is set to, and keeps tracking it if they change | Someone who wants to run their upline's play without thinking about it |
A new member's starting value is **whatever their sponsor is on** — so a team duplicates its A new member's starting value is **whatever their sponsor is on** — so a team duplicates its
leader by default, which is what Terry is asking for. But it is visible on their own dashboard leader by default, which is what Terry is asking for. But it is visible on their own dashboard
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## What we need agreed before building ## What shipped, and the decisions behind it
1. **Three states, or just two?** Is "Follow my sponsor" worth the extra concept, or is a plain **Two settings, not three.** "Follow my sponsor" was dropped. Its only real value was letting a
inherited starting value enough? leader change their whole leg retroactively, which is also its biggest risk — that is the
2. **Should a leader be able to lock their leg?** Terry might want his team on Direct with no doctrine shift above, just automated. Instead a new member gets a one-time copy of their
opt-out. My recommendation is no — it is the kind of control that reads badly when a member sponsor's setting at join, and the panel says where it came from. Whether a setting was chosen
finds out — but it is a real request and worth a decision. or inherited is recorded in the data, so the drift question never needs a rule.
3. **Does the same switch belong on InstantAdPay?** It has the same sponsor/placement shape, and
answering it once for both is cheaper than twice. **No leg locking.** Marty's call, 18 September: a leader cannot force their team onto a setting.
Every member can change their own, always.
**Rotation never leaves the member's own team.** A personal link used to fall through to the
COMPANY rotation once the member's leg was fully qualified — which is how Terry's prospects were
being offered position #148. It now places under the member instead. Team rotation means the
member's own downline and nothing else.
**Still open:** whether the same switch belongs on InstantAdPay, and a short training video
explaining the two settings.