Report-first. Nothing built; no tier, price, gate or Stripe object changed.
REVIEW ZERO findings that shape the design:
0.2 The ladder is HALF-EXPRESSIBLE already — PRICE_MAP separates founder from
standing objects, so lifetime grandfathering is native (a sub created against
a founder price stays on it). BUT founder access is gated by CODE + EXPIRY
(FOUNDER2026/VYNDR/BETONBLK/EARLYBIRD, expiry 2026-12-31), NOT by seat count:
anyone with a code gets founder pricing at any seat number. A real
Stripe-derived counter exists (/api/founders/count, live 0 of 100) but only
DISPLAYS — and it is cached 300s, so it cannot enforce "slot 100 and 101
differ permanently". Making the counter the gate, transactionally and
uncached at checkout-session creation, is a real build.
0.3 The paid->free flip point already exists ON THE SERVED PAYLOAD: settlement
writes ledger_entries.outcome + settled_at, and /api/snapshot already merges
per-grade results — live WNBA returns 25 grades, 5 carrying
outcome {result:'hit', actual:1}. So the gate discriminator (outcome != null)
is present on the exact object to be gated; no new pipeline needed.
0.4 THE MIGRATION IS NOT WHAT THE ORDER ASSUMES: the users table holds 3 users,
all free, created Jun 12-19, and ZERO paid. There is no warm mass base — the
"founder launch to existing users" is a courtesy note to 3 people, and the
launch's real audience is people who have not signed up yet.
DESIGN: free = full data aggregator + the COMPLETE settled record (letter,
reasoning, edge, outcome — browsable and filterable), which is the proof hook.
Analyst = tonight's live grades + reasoning + edge, unlimited. Desk = + alt
ladder, Kelly, portfolio, engine2. Reasoning/grade/edge are ONE paid unit while
live and become free together at resolution — which also converts today's
unenforced board-reasoning leak into a deliberate rule.
GATE: outcome == null => live => Analyst+; outcome != null => settled => free.
Filter whole grades server-side (not field-strips) so a live grade cannot leak
partially; never infer resolution from time or game status, only from a written
outcome; fail closed to LIVE so a settle failure withholds rather than exposes;
void/unrecoverable are terminal and therefore free.
BUILD ORDER: (1) the settled/live gate, (2) the free settled-record surface —
noted as arguably shipping WITH (1), since gating live grades without it leaves
free users no graded content at all, (3) Stripe ladder + transactional counter +
grandfather rule + retire the code gate, (4) the founder note to the 3,
(5) pricing visuals (already designed in the package).
CANNOT DETERMINE: whether the four Stripe price objects exist in the dashboard
(env not readable here) — flagged as a prerequisite for build 3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJs13VsyiSKYQP6rj3NNmc
