Status

Where it stands

The rest of this site describes the product as it will be when its first phase, a proof of concept that runs on your own machine, closes. This page is the only one that says what is built today and what is still coming. It is updated by hand at each exit check; this version reflects the repository on 26 October 2026.

How to read this page

The first phase is built in six increments, 0a to 0f, each with exit criteria written before it was built. An exit check tests each criterion against the code, with the automated tests and a demo performed by hand, and is recorded in the repository as docs/0a-exit-check.md and onward.

  • Built and verified means it passed an exit check.
  • Built means it is in the product and covered by its tests, but its exit check is not recorded yet, or it was fixed after the check found it missing.
  • Coming means it is not built yet.

0a: the core runs

Exit check recorded on 24 October 2026. Every criterion passed.

  • Local run, organizations, and people

    Built and verified

    One command starts the application on a fresh checkout; a setup page creates the first organization and admin; members are invited with roles.

  • Models, keys, and cost

    Built and verified

    One gateway with OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI-compatible adapters; keys encrypted per organization; every call recorded with its cost or as unpriced; a restricted call to a third-party provider refused before anything leaves. Probing a local model server was not exercised on the checking machine.

  • Jobs, plugins, audit, and isolation

    Built and verified

    Scheduled jobs with progress, plugins discovered and installed per organization, the audit log, and the isolation tests against a real database.

0b: knowledge in, approved, and searchable

Exit check recorded on 24 October 2026. Every criterion passed.

  • Uploads, shared folders, and manual entries

    Built and verified

    Documents are extracted, split into passages, and queued for review.

  • Review and approval

    Built and verified

    Approve, reject, annotate, or correct; bulk approve that still records one decision per document.

  • Search with citations

    Built and verified

    Search returns approved content only, each hit with a complete citation; a labeled reviewer mode includes unapproved content and cannot be cited.

  • The application's look

    Built and verified

    The product's own tokens, navigation, and shared components on every page.

0c: real sources, continuous sync, and retrieval evaluation

Exit check recorded on 25 and 26 October 2026. Every criterion passed. Confluence was checked against recorded copies of a Confluence Cloud space's responses, because no live account was available, and the search deadline was measured by hand for full-text search.

  • Confluence, websites, and spreadsheets

    Built and verified

    Confluence Cloud spaces and public websites sync on a schedule; spreadsheets keep their rows and columns when cited.

  • Re-review on change

    Built and verified

    A changed source waits for re-review while the approved version stays in use, flagged; a title-only change creates no new version.

  • Retrieval evaluation

    Built and verified

    Standard search-quality and speed measures per run, with a gated comparison before a change to chunking or embeddings is confirmed.

  • What the check found missing

    Built

    Small additions to the interface between knowledge and workbench, a record of whether a sync was live or replayed, and the website passages in the evaluation suite, added after the check.

  • Smaller defects from the check

    Coming

    Search naming an approver by identifier, and the other small defects the check listed, are fixed in 0f.

0d: the workbench through requirements

Exit check recorded on 26 October 2026, with the demo performed against a real model. Nine of twelve criteria passed; three failed and have since been built, and are verified again at the next check.

  • Initiatives, framing, discovery, and requirements

    Built and verified

    Findings with citations, a conflict recorded as an open question with both passages, gaps with coverage counts, and requirements each with a citation or an assumption.

  • Versions, staleness, and the merge view

    Built and verified

    Hand edits as new versions; a changed document makes the requirement set stale within one check; the merge view shows conflicts element by element; the interface between the knowledge side and the workbench fixed at its first stable version.

  • Ready marks on the stage page

    Built

    The check found no screen that records a ready mark. The stage page now has one for the reviewer and one for the owner's self-check.

  • The three responses, in full

    Built

    The check found regenerate failing for discovery findings, no agent help in the merge view, and no screen that starts a regeneration chain. Regenerating now keeps each element's identifier, merge has the agent's help, and the overview and the stale badge start a chain of regenerations.

  • A cancelled run's draft

    Built

    The check found the stage workflows drafting only at the end, so a cancelled run had nothing to salvage. Drafts now stream as they form.

0e: design, mockup, handoff, and the reference initiatives

Built and covered by tests; the exit check is not recorded yet. A first scripted end-to-end run on 25 October 2026 stopped at wireframes, because one provider rejected the shape of the screen specification; the specification is now sent in a form that provider accepts, and the full run to the bundle is part of the exit check.

  • Design systems

    Built

    Imported from a token file, a Figma variables export, or by hand, with the theme map confirmed and contrast checked.

  • Flows, wireframes, UX, and visual design

    Built

    Each stage producing its artifact, with screens rendered from tokens only and viewers for each.

  • The mockup and its walkthrough

    Built

    A sandboxed, clickable mockup that exports as one offline HTML file, with an annotated walkthrough.

  • The handoff bundle

    Built

    Backlog with Given, When, Then scenarios, a bundle validated against its schema, citations resolved at export, and a read-only seat for engineering.

  • Evaluation and spend

    Built

    The reference initiatives with metrics and a judge, the comparison of two runs, and spend per initiative.

  • Pointing at a rendered screen to change it

    Coming

    Selecting an element on a rendered screen to edit it, and notes anchored to an element that feed the next draft.

  • The 0e exit check

    Coming

    Every criterion checked, with the full scripted run from sources to the bundle.

0f: interviews, guides, the second client, and the close of the phase

In progress. Nothing in 0f has an exit check yet.

  • The local embedding service

    Built

    An optional container with a small open embedding model, connected from the command line or from Models and keys, so search matches meaning with no hosted key.

  • This site

    Built

    The marketing site, its captures from the seeded application, its journeys, and this page.

  • Stage interviews

    Coming

    Short rounds of questions before each stage drafts, answered in the run panel and recorded on the version. The pictures of them on this site are design renders, not pictures of the application.

  • Stage pages and the overview

    Coming

    Each stage page opening on its current output, and the overview's stage cards grouping outputs and counting gaps.

  • Export profiles and planning prompts

    Coming

    The bundle written in the folder layouts of spec-driven methods, with a prompts folder for engineering's planning.

  • The guides

    Coming

    User, administrator, and technical guides, the reader's guide for engineering, and the presenter's script for the fictional energy retailer's demo.

  • The second fictional client

    Coming

    The mortgage finance company's corpus, its scripted run and demo script, and a comparison of the two clients' scores.

  • Small defects and a faster browser suite

    Coming

    The defects the first scripted run and the 0c check logged, and the browser tests split across workers.

  • The demo-stage deployment runbook

    Coming

    The product on one UK or EU virtual machine behind TLS, with backups and a restore drill, exercised once. The last item of the phase.

After the first phase

Later phases change where the same product runs and what it connects to, and are not described elsewhere on this site: a hosted deployment for one client in the UK or EU, single sign-on switched on with your identity provider and enterprise model endpoints, hardening for many organizations on one hosted deployment with plugins in their own processes, SharePoint and Confluence Server connectors, and, beyond the first version, tracker integrations and shared editing of an initiative.