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The job

When I have subscribed to more podcasts than I will ever listen to, I want the episodes I skipped to come back as something I can read in two minutes, so the backlog stops being a debt.

This scorecard exists by an explicit override. Show Notes fails the test that every other product has to pass, and it was kept anyway, with one objective instead of three.

Window

31 Aug to 13 Sept 2026

Thresholds set at the start of the window
Next grade 13 Sept 2026

Where it stands

2 Needs action

2 key results · updated 30 Aug 2026

Every other product here has to name its audience, its channel, and whose hours that channel spends. Show Notes cannot do it. There is no audience that passes the test, no way to be found by search, and the only promising channel is a community where being present costs the one thing that has been scarcest all year.

It was kept anyway, deliberately, with one objective rather than three. Recording that as an override rather than quietly bending the rule is the entire reason this note is here.

S1 Make onboarding a person financially safe

One objective, and it is the one that blocks everything else. An unbounded per-account transcription cost is what parked this product, and what turned a single over-eager import into a $150 bill. The backend also emitted 923 errors over 28 days and, on most of those days, nothing else. The port, the app submission and the outreach all move out of the scorecard and into the queue.

# Key result Baseline Target Where it is
S1.1 Per-account processing cap enforced by 7 Sept Does not exist Shipped, with a test that trips it Needs action: Not started
S1.2 Cost per new account published weekly Unmeasured. One accidental import cost $150, which is the only data point Published Needs action: Not started

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Occasional notes on what shipped and what the numbers said. No schedule, no marketing.