R7-01 · backs slide 4, 41
R7-01 Journey timeline
Supports slides 4 and 41.
This is the source for the three-lane spine on slide 4 and the three inflexion points on slide 41. Every date below comes from email, Slack or a dated file.
Lane 1: the four bets and the stack
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 11 May 2025 | Assured (Jody’s book site) already live | Gmail 1831836758146318574 |
| 11 to 15 May 2025 | DeepFeedback.ai created from YCJ Group’s Looplytic | Gmail 1831826934697446637 |
| 26 Aug 2025 | Mike Boysen (Practical JTBD) and I formalise working together on PRFAQ | Slack DM |
| 26 Sep to 1 Oct 2025 | STIGViewer handover: Michael made owner, GitHub repo moved | Gmail 1844336157303893216, 1844805306889066469 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Google Cloud AI Agents Live + Labs, Los Angeles. The plugin collaboration starts here | Gmail 1844902065167784521 |
| 14 Nov 2025 | New stigviewer.com live. Assured site shows 24 testimonials | Slack #stig-viewer, #assured-book |
| 13 Jan 2026 | DeepFeedback partners stop funding. I close it | Slack #deepfeedback, p1768351371796249 |
| 4 to 9 Mar 2026 | Assured site restored after the Directus failure | Slack #assured-book |
| 12 May 2026 | Plugin marketplace goes public | moxywolf-plugins commit 2208327 |
| 22 Jun 2026 | prfaq.dev built in two eight-hour sprints on the plugins | Gmail 1868696017704623008 |
| 31 Jul 2026 | Yearly minimal pricing agreed with DISA (terms confidential) | Gmail 1872239447848542466 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Mapping engine done, about 56,000 definitions | Weekly check-in 30 Sep 2026 |
| 6 to 7 Oct 2026 | Chief of Staff and ten department plugins | moxywolf-plugins history |
Lane 2: the founder and the team
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Apr 2025 | Classes start; first MoxyWolf Slack post | Slack #general |
| 21 May 2025 | First message from Phil, a classmate | Slack DM |
| 17 to 22 Jun 2025 | Phil brings Michael in | Slack |
| 4 Jul 2025 | MoxyWolf officially launched | Gmail 1836641317935965622 |
| 16 Aug 2025 | Steven joins | Gmail 1840564226875248172 |
| 1 Oct 2025 | KingdomKode agency agreement starts | Gmail 1844180938438445430 |
| 26 Oct 2025 | I ask Boysen how he’d replace human team members with AI | Gmail |
| 10 Dec 2025 | RegGenome JV stake: pass; strategic partnership instead | Gmail 1851223970695431541 |
| 12 Jan 2026 | I write “MoxyWolf is a venture studio” in the Overview and FAQ | MoxyWolf_Venture_Studio_Overview.pdf |
| 19 Jan 2026 | Eve Mayer rewrites my LinkedIn headline and summary | Gmail 1854712808473795660 |
| 20 Feb 2026 | Edify approved | Gmail 1857675446279696108 |
| 23 Feb 2026 | KingdomKode ends the contract and disputes control of the code | Gmail 1857933538344250570 |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Mentor meeting: Eric points my network at the studio model | Gmail 1861197867969352595 (AI summary) |
| 21 to 23 Apr 2026 | QBatch onboarded, $35 an hour | Slack #team-qbatch |
| 4 May 2026 | Edify SOW closed | Gmail 1863191680021691645 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Release Owner’s Gate | See R7-11 |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Phil’s last Slack message | Slack DM |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Steven’s last Slack message | Slack |
| 12 Aug 2026 | The “honest zero” report (later found wrong; see R2-05) | Founder Operating System |
| 28 Sep 2026 | QBatch wound down, final invoice approved | Gmail 1877572447453569041 |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Selling goes first in the day; nightly check | Weekly check-in 30 Sep 2026 |
Lane 3: the world
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 22 May 2025 | Claude 4 and Claude Code GA |
| 7 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 |
| 9 and 16 Oct 2025 | Claude Code plugins; Agent Skills |
| 18 and 24 Nov 2025 | Gemini 3; Claude Opus 4.5 |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Udemy and Coursera announce a combination |
| 12 Jan 2026 | Claude Cowork research preview |
| Jun to Jul 2026 | Claude 5 family |
| 1 Sep 2026 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Jev (TypeSafe AI) launches |
The three inflexion points on slide 41
| Date | What happened | What I’d do sooner |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Jan 2026 | DeepFeedback’s partners stop funding. About $35K of revenue over its life, booked in the JV account, never enough to carry a team. I close it. | Write the kill criterion at the start. |
| 23 Feb 2026 | KingdomKode ends the contract and tries to hold the code. | Ownership and access terms on day one. |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Eric turns “venture studio” from a phrase in my January FAQ into the operating model. By 5 May the bottleneck is operator selection. | Act on my own FAQ. |
Not yet evidenced: the “Assured: remonetise” step. The record shows the site restored in March; it doesn’t yet show the remonetisation.
Sources:
- Capstone Spine Timeline (16 Oct 2026), with the Gmail thread IDs and Slack permalinks above
- Capstone Facts Reconciled (17 Oct 2026): DeepFeedback revenue, venture studio chronology
- moxywolf-plugins git history (first commit 12 May 2026; department plugins 6 to 7 Oct 2026)
- Weekly check-in 30 Sep 2026
- World-lane dates: vendor announcements as listed in the Spine Timeline; Claude 5-era dates partly from a third-party timeline