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Appendix A · Timeline
Every dated entry below is anchored to the program’s ledger, its git history, or a filed record. The pre-repository months are narrated without invented specifics.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | Lease executed on the property; the main building is let to the operating tenant. The rear structure and a slice of the lot are outside the leased premises. |
| Jan 2026 | Possession and fixturing begin under the new tenancy. |
| Spring 2026 | Concept work begins on what the site's unleased remainder could carry. The pre-repository months are concept phase; no artifacts survive from them, and none are invented here. |
| 2026-04-30 | Founding commit of the software platform. |
| 2026-05-13 | The walk-in register ships: cash and card ring-up, end-of-day closeout. |
| 2026-05-25 | Strategy pivots register-first; two days later the posture hardens to no partial rollout, test to destruction before any real user. |
| 2026-05-28 | The payments spine lands in one long day: processor onboarding, terminal simulator, admin authentication with an append-only audit log, and the first chaos harness. |
| 2026-06-03 to 06-09 | Edge hardware spike: a 3B language model and speech-to-text co-resident on an 8 GB edge computer; voice under the 4-second bar for the common case. Validated, then deliberately parked. |
| 2026-06-10 | The bulletproofing capstone: two-phase terminal refunds, the reconciliation backstop, and the 48-check destruction pass. All scenarios held. |
| 2026-06-12 | All money paths verified live on deployed infrastructure, test mode, end to end. |
| 2026-06-30 | The unattended loop ships: session, charge-on-exit, inventory decrement, receipt. |
| 2026-07-06 | First full bench proof on physical hardware: a real session rung up and closed by a single-board computer driving a real lock, still test mode. |
| 2026-07-09 | First live dollar: a $1.99 phone-wallet purchase charged on production rails and refunded through the same system. |
| 2026-07-13 | The practice's doctrine is written down. The drink program is specified to the fastener: hypothesis, seven kill criteria, market calendar, machine assessment, buildout bill of materials. The staffed variant is rejected the same day. |
| 2026-07-14 | The evidence closes the question: the category autopsy and its measured demand ceiling (chapter 03), the landed-cost falsification (chapter 05), the total-capital arithmetic against the 24-month kill line (chapter 07), and the category's own record of better-funded operators who lost (appendix D). All venue lines are closed. The record is filed the same day. The circulation finding (chapter 08) lands the same week: a bound on one structure, not a cause. |