Markdown works because one person owns the whole picture. The moment you add a second client, that assumption collapses.
You're not choosing between markdown and a database. You're discovering that markdown was always a database just one held together by a single person's understanding. The moment no single person owns the full picture, markdown stops being a feature and starts being a liability.
The answer to your questions database for isolation and access control, markdown for the human-readable layer that people actually need to read and edit. Keep the legibility. Drop the illusion that legibility scales.
Markdown works because one person owns the whole picture. The moment you add a second client, that assumption collapses. You're not choosing between markdown and a database. You're discovering that markdown was always a database just one held together by a single person's understanding. The moment no single person owns the full picture, markdown stops being a feature and starts being a liability. The answer to your questions database for isolation and access control, markdown for the human-readable layer that people actually need to read and edit. Keep the legibility. Drop the illusion that legibility scales.
so db for multi-tenant? The moment we do that, we have to rely 100% on RAG and no agentic search, grep, find etc works..
> no agentic search, grep, find etc works..
What do you mean? Why wouldn't it work?