R1-08 World timeline

Supports slide 9.

Slide 9’s headline says the world changed under us. These are the outside events on the deck’s spine, the world lane, and why each one mattered to the bets.

Date	Event	Why it mattered
22 May 2025	Claude 4 and Claude Code generally available	AI coding became good enough to replace outsourced build work
7 Aug 2025	GPT-5	Same trend, second vendor
16 Oct 2025	Claude plugins and Agent Skills	The basis of the plugin stack I run the company on
18 Nov 2025	Gemini 3; Claude Opus 4.5	Agents good enough to run department work
17 Dec 2025	Udemy and Coursera combine	Consumer course marketplaces consolidating, the market Assured’s courses would have sold into
12 Jan 2026	Claude Cowork	Agent work moved from the terminal to the desktop
9 Jun 2026	Claude 5 family	The model generation the ten department agents run on
13 Jul 2026	CMMC Phase 2 suspended	Removed the regulatory deadline the first draft of this pitch leaned on (R1-10)
1 Sep 2026	Claude Fable 5.1
15 Sep 2026	Jev, from TypeSafe AI	A fast classification layer; PolicyCo started using it on 22 Sep

The CMMC rows on slide 9

Obligation	Status, Oct 2026
CMMC Phase 1 self-assessments	In force
NIST SP 800-171 (DFARS 252.204-7012)	In force
CMMC Phase 2 third-party assessments	Suspended 13 Jul 2026, 60-day review
DISA STIGs	Published continuously; pricing agreement with us 31 Jul 2026

Detail and sources for these four rows are in R1-10.

Not yet evidenced: a primary source link for each AI release and for the Udemy and Coursera combination. The dates come from the deck spine. I’ll add the vendor announcements before submission.

Sources

• The deck spine, world lane (spine.js, capstone deck source).
• R1-10 CMMC status memo.
• Capstone Facts Reconciled, 17 Oct 2026: Jev launch 15 Sep 2026, PolicyCo use from 22 Sep.