CrownSpace — the spec

A client portal for a physical studio where children and their parents access culturally grounded hair education. CrownSpace serves families — particularly those with textured, natural, or heritage hair — who want more than technique: they want their child to understand their hair as identity, history, and self-expression. Every session moves a child from "my hair is a problem" to "my hair is mine."

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Decisions locked

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The core loop

1. A parent creates a family account and registers their child, noting hair texture and any prior context.
2. They book a guided parent-child hands-on styling session from available slots.
3. At the studio, the child works through a ritual tied to their texture — technique, story, and meaning together.
4. The child hears a cultural history segment at the storytelling corner during the session.
5. At checkout, a customized take-home routine card is generated and saved to their portal profile.
6. The family receives an invite to the next community celebration event and can RSVP directly from the portal.

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v1 scope

Guided parent-child hands-on styling sessions
A bookable session type where parent and child participate together, led by a studio instructor. The portal shows available dates, confirms bookings, and holds the session record against the child's profile.

Cultural history and pride storytelling corner
A curated content section — short written pieces, prompts, and images — that instructors draw on during sessions and families can revisit via the portal afterward. Organized by theme: heritage, texture identity, resilience, self-expression.

Take-home routine cards customized per child
After each session, an instructor completes a simple form in the portal keyed to that child's texture and what was practiced. The portal generates a printable, saveable routine card attached to the child's record and accessible to the parent at any time.

Community celebration events and showcases
An events calendar inside the portal where the studio publishes upcoming showcases — moments where children's hair journeys are celebrated publicly. Parents RSVP through the portal; attendance history is stored on the family profile.

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Deliberately later

• Texture-specific workshop bookings by hair type — needs enough session volume and instructor bandwidth to justify segmentation; phase one fills the calendar first.
• Product library: safe ingredients, texture-matched — valuable, but requires curation rigor and ongoing maintenance; better built once families trust the platform.
• Instructor training in cultural hair care — a separate audience and product entirely; belongs in a distinct module when the studio is ready to scale its team.
• Feedback loop: child agency in sessions — critical to the mission long-term; designing it well requires real session data and child input that v1 will generate.

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Data model sketch

• families — family ID, parent name, contact email, referral source, signup date
• children — child ID, family ID, name, age, hair texture notes, session history
• sessions — session ID, child ID, session type, date, instructor, status (booked / completed / cancelled)
• routine_cards — card ID, child ID, session ID, texture notes, steps array, generated date
• storytelling_content — content ID, theme, title, body text, media URL, publish status
• events — event ID, title, date, capacity, description, RSVP list
• rsvps — RSVP ID, event ID, family ID, status, timestamp
• instructors — instructor ID, name, availability, assigned sessions

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Screens

• Family dashboard — single view of upcoming bookings, saved routine cards, and event RSVPs for the whole family.
• Child profile — per-child record showing texture notes, session history, and all generated routine cards.
• Session booking — calendar and slot selector for guided parent-child sessions, with confirmation flow.
• Storytelling corner — browsable library of cultural history and pride content, filterable by theme.
• Routine card viewer — display and print/save page for a child's personalized take-home card.
• Events calendar — upcoming celebrations and showcases with RSVP button and attendance history.
• Admin panel — instructor-facing screen for completing post-session forms, managing content, and publishing events.

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How to use this document

• Bring it into Mind Palace, where the guided platform and its AI coach pick up from exactly this document and build the portal with you step by step.
• Hand it to a developer as the complete v1 brief — scope, data model, and screens are defined and ready.
• Keep it as the single source of truth while you build, so every decision traces back to what CrownSpace is actually for.