R4-04 Decision log

Supports slide 26.

Slide 26 walks one decision and lists six more. This is the record behind each one: the date, what the evidence said, and the rule it came from.

Decision	Date on slide	What the record shows	Rule
Pass on the RegGenome JV stake; take a content partnership	Sep to Dec 2025	Full file in R4-07.	Hold positions, don’t run them
Kill DeepFeedback	13 Jan 2026	13 Jan: the partners’ “no revenue” message. 22 Jan: I offered to take it over. 11 Feb: “I think all of these survey tools are dead.” 20 Feb: I agreed to a wrap-up plan. 26 Feb: the partners disabled the app and began dissolving the entity.	Kill on evidence
Report zero; exclude $48K of preview-environment events; then correct the zero	12 Aug, corrected 17 Oct 2026	Sprint 12 data audit: 94 subscription_paid events (about $48K), all deploy_environment="preview", excluded. Stripe made the single source of truth 12 Aug. Corrected 17 Oct when the Stripe invoice table showed Sullivan’s May payment.	Provenance over averaging
Bundle API and MCP on Strike Graph’s evidence	Sep 2026	24 Sep: after Micah Spieler’s note that customers pushed back on paying for MCP, “For now, we’ll just bundle API and MCP together.”	Partners carry us
Kill or scale outbound at a written gate; called early	26 Aug 2026	The Founder OS gate was set for 7 to 11 Sep. On 26 Aug I brought it forward, promoted partner distribution and demoted outbound.	Kill on evidence
Label derived mappings as ours	30 Sep 2026	The asserted/derived split was live by 12 Aug: what we compose sits in a disclosure labelled “derived by us, not asserted by any source,” and publisher weight is never averaged with our confidence score.	Provenance over averaging
End three vendor relationships; bring engineering in-house	Feb to Sep 2026	KingdomKode: terminated 23 Feb. Edify: SOW closed 4 May, then “no more external teams for core projects” (5 May). QBatch: wound down; final invoice approved 28 Sep.	No external team owns core work

Where did the $48K come from?

Test checkouts in our preview deployments. All 94 events carried deploy_environment="preview". None was a real customer, so none was revenue.

Not yet evidenced: DeepFeedback killed on 13 Jan. The record puts the decision between 11 and 20 Feb. The economy of force audits (R4-05) still listed its formal shelving as open on 15 Apr and 15 May.

Not yet evidenced: a 30 Sep date for labelling derived mappings. The earliest record I have is 12 to 14 Aug 2026.

Sources:

• Gmail thread 1855031477794651551 (DeepFeedback, 22 Jan to 26 Feb 2026)
• Sprint 12 Unit Economics Data Pack v3, 13 Jul 2026 (the $48K data audit)
• Weekly Check-Ins 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 26 Aug and 30 Sep 2026
• Capstone Founder Story Evidence, 16 Oct 2026 (KingdomKode, Edify, QBatch threads)
• Capstone Facts Reconciled, 17 Oct 2026