# VerdictTank — Changelog

## 2026-08-10

### v3 Proposal + Technical Architecture
- v3 proposal drafted with expanded feature set (11 enhancements, 3 tiers)
- New 4-tier pricing: Free / Pro ($79/mo) / Enterprise ($499/mo) / White-Label ($1,999+/mo)
- Technical architecture documented: 908-line engineering document
- Architecture run through independent technical review: 3/3 Conditional Go
- Architecture doc + review addendum committed to sharktank.git
- v2 proposal archived with "SUPERSEDED" banner at verdicttank/index.html
- docs.itpropartner.com/verdicttank/ updated with current state

### Still Pending (from v2)
- Register verdicttank.com domain → DONE — live on Core (Caddy)
- File VerdictTank trademark (USPTO Class 42)
- Landing page + waitlist at verdicttank.com
- Interview 20 target ICP users
- Publish benchmark accuracy report (20 proposals, known outcomes)
- Recruit 3+ named advisors
- FastAPI backend with job queue
- WeasyPrint PDF generation
- Email delivery via MXroute
- LiteLLM virtual key: verdicttank-prod

## 2026-08-07

### Rebrand (SharkTank → VerdictTank)
- Project renamed: /root/projects/sharktank → /root/projects/verdicttank
- Mockup moved: mockups.itpropartner.com/sharktank → mockups.itpropartner.com/verdicttank
- New proposal: proposals.itpropartner.com/verdicttank (incorporates all pipeline review feedback)
- Original SharkTank proposal archived with "superseded" banner
- Mockup landing page: removed all model names, added file upload (doc/docx/pdf), purged all em dashes
- Proposals index: VerdictTank (primary) + SharkTank (archived, grayed out)
- Critical review page: rebranded, em dashes purged

### Pipeline Review Results
- First dogfood: ran proposal through full VerdictTank pipeline
- **Verdict: 3/3 Unanimous Conditional Go**
- Phase 1 (Research Agent): No direct competitor found — cross-vendor architecture is novel
- Phase 2 (Critic Agent): 4/10 average — 4 fatal flaws: trademark, pricing, financial model, no validation
- Phase 3a (Judge A): Ratified 85% of critic — pricing > name in priority, rejected co-founder as condition
- Phase 3b (Judge B): Caught overage incentive flaw, compound reliability risk (97.5% = 18hr/mo downtime)
- Phase 3c (Judge C): Meta-layer insight, training-data recursion (Year 3), liability asymmetry, SEO desert
- Critical review addendum: https://proposals.itpropartner.com/verdicttank/critical-review.html
- Priority-ranked 11-item action plan with reconciled timeline (Apr 2027 paid launch)
- Novel insights: product IS content, verdict confidence scoring, degraded-mode fallback needed

### Updated Proposal (Post-Review)
- Full rebrand to VerdictTank throughout
- Tiered usage-based pricing (no "unlimited"): $19/$49/$99/$299 + $14.99 pay-per-review
- Financial model with churn (5-7%), CAC ($15-25), LTV ($210-290), LTV:CAC (~10:1)
- Real break-even estimate: 25-35 users (not 6)
- Timeline pushed to Mar-Apr 2027 paid launch
- New risks: training-data recursion, liability asymmetry, alignment drift, SEO desert
- Pipeline described by roles only (no model names)
- Pipeline self-review section with verdict banner
- Added: degraded-mode fallback, benchmark accuracy report, advisory board plan
- Product origin: dogfooding at IT Pro Partner

## 2026-08-10 — Architecture link fix

- **Fixed:** "Tech Architecture" in Access table now links to `/verdicttank/architecture/` instead of the page itself
- **Added:** Callout link to full architecture doc in the Architecture section

## 2026-08-10 — Architecture doc recovered

- **Recovered:** Full architecture document at /verdicttank/architecture/ — rebuilt from pipeline spec after rsync --delete wipe
- **Added:** architecture.md is now a first-class MkDocs source file, not a manually deployed orphan