Paton Hall

A hundred-year-old mechanics garage in Hamilton, Ontario, run as an open room for technologists, engineers and founders building industrial products.

This repository is the business case and its supporting documents, published as a static site.

Structure

• docs/ — the markdown documents, which are the source of record
• papers/ — generated HTML, one page per document
• index.html, styles.css, assets/ — the site
• build.py — regenerates papers/ and index.html from docs/

Building

python3 build.py

Requires markdown (pip install markdown). Edit the markdown in docs/, run the build, and the site follows. Do not hand-edit files in papers/ — they are overwritten.

The documents

Page	For
Overview	Everyone. Start here.
Members	Founders and prospective members
Industry	Plant managers and HR
Partners	Colleges, the university, the City
The tenancy	Landlord, City, insurers
Numbers	The financial model
Repository	Everything, plus the claims register

A note on the claims register

Every load-bearing claim in these documents carries an ID and a status — Safe to Use, Needs Validation, or Rejected. The rejected and withdrawn claims stay visible in docs/00-repository.md §13. Corrections are published, not buried.

These are working documents and planning records, not commitments. Figures are planning models, not audited forecasts.