May 2026 Launch Targets

Status
in-flight
Tier
Tier 2 — Platform
Owner
Ryan Colston
Started
2026-05-01
Target launch
2026-05-31

One-line description. Concrete May 1-31 targets that replace the obsolete Phase 1 plan after the 36-hour compression.

Why

Phase 1 was supposed to take 6 weeks. It took 36 hours. The original Phase 1 success criteria don't apply anymore. Without explicit replacement targets, attention drifts back into infra polish.

May 1-31 is the launch month. Cadence, orbit, and personal-lane work are the targets. Anti-targets (platform hygiene, new scaffolding) get deferred to June.

Current state

Targets are written and locked. The source-of-truth plan lives at Roadmap/plans/2026-05-may-priorities.md (force-ranked top 5 with defined-done + capacity check). Today is day 2 of the window.

Next 3 actions

  1. Ship the first Wednesday newsletter (week of 5/4) on cadence.
  2. Tag the first 25 DFW orbit names (DFW-orbit-2026) by 5/7.
  3. Land first Capri-branded contract (rank 1 of 2026-05-may-priorities.md).

Decisions log

Open issues

References