M4 v1.0 Launch

Due Aug 31, 2026

Planned1 / 44 (2%)

Exit criteria (0/4)

☐ v1.0 release published for Cloud + OSS with clear version contract.
☐ Migration/versioning workflow built-in and documented.
☐ Onboarding repeatable without founder-only support.
☐ Reliability + support metrics sustain target levels for 30 days.

KPI targets (0/3)

☐ Activation and conversion improve vs M3 baseline.
☐ Core reliability SLOs met over rolling 30 days.
☐ Early retention/expansion signals trending positive.

Tasks by Workstream

dft core (Sr Engineer Architect)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for the YAML contract, compiler/normalizer, execution adapters, and release/versioning: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around execution/runtime adapters so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for versioning and migrations across support, triage, and release cadenc…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for YAML contract and normalizer with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.
☐Async prefetch with future-based cache for progressive rendering — Extend the batch prefetch system to support non-blocking async execution. Replace the simple dict cache in Executor wit…

cloud suite (UI Design and Frontend Dev)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for hosted user experience for onboarding, sharing, collaboration, and account/project flows: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☑Audit cloud test coverage and reduce over-mocking Completed — Audit the Django cloud test suite, replace brittle monkeypatched tests on critical paths with lightweight ORM/request s…
☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around sharing and collaboration surface so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for account/project lifecycle flows across support, triage, and release…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for workspace and onboarding UX with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.

inspect profiler (Sr Engineer Architect)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for warehouse profiling, semantic inference, and analyst-facing data context surfaces: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around semantic inference and context quality so release quality is sustained automatic…
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for analyst-facing inspector experience across support, triage, and rele…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for profiling pipeline with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.

mcp analyst agent (Data AI Engineer Architect)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for AI agent tool interfaces, execution workflows, and eval-driven behavior tuning: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around agent prompt/workflow behavior so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for eval and guardrail framework across support, triage, and release cad…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for MCP tool execution model with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.
☐Add bounded execution-guided smoke repair mode for text-to-SQL evals Waiting on build-bounded-non-one-shot-text-to-sql-stack-for-local-evals — Add an optional local-only execution-guided repair pass for already plausible candidates so cheap execution evidence ca…
☐Add contamination-resistant benchmark splits and holdout guardrails Benchmark-Driven Text-to-SQL and Discovery Evals — Separate iteration canaries from held-out benchmark slices and add process guardrails so prompt and retrieval tuning do…
☐Add judge calibration and disagreement audits for text-to-SQL evals — Audit where deterministic scoring and LLM judging disagree so leaderboard movements can distinguish real generation imp…
☐Expand text-to-SQL benchmark with paraphrase clusters Benchmark-Driven Text-to-SQL and Discovery Evals — Add multiple phrasings for the same logical query intent so robustness can be measured separately from fitting one benc…

ft dash packs (Data Analysis Evangelist and AI Training)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for connector-specific dashboard packs and KPI narratives for Fivetran sources: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around dashboard narrative quality so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for pack publishing workflow across support, triage, and release cadence.
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for connector pack coverage with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.

ide extension (Head of Engineering)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for analyst authoring workflow in VS Code/Cursor with preview, diagnostics, and assist: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around IDE diagnostics and guidance so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for inspector/agent integration in IDE across support, triage, and relea…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for editor + preview workflow with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.

chart library (rj)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for visual language, chart defaults, interaction behavior, and differentiated styling: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around chart default behavior so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for interaction/accessibility polish across support, triage, and release…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for visual language system with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.
☐Conditional Formatting — Implement conditional formatting primitives for the graph library to encode thresholds, exceptions, and trend states vi…

context catalog nimble (Data AI Engineer Architect)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for context schema/catalog contracts and Nimble enrichment flows across product surfaces: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around context enrichment rules so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for cross-surface context contract across support, triage, and release c…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for context schema model with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.
☐Evaluate question-scoped bundle compression strategies Waiting on compare-text-to-sql-evals-with-question-aware-retrieval-vs-full-context-prompting — Compare raw narrowed dumps against more structured or explanation-rich bundle shapes so the team can pick the smallest…

dashboard factory (Data Analysis Evangelist and AI Training)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for repeatable process for producing, reviewing, and publishing quickstarts/examples: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Build GitHub Actions and Pages publisher for Dataface GitHub OSS activity dashboards Waiting on build-github-activity-extract-and-snapshot-pipeline — Create an easy-to-copy GitHub Actions workflow and Pages deployment path that refreshes GitHub activity snapshots, runs…
☐Build GitHub activity extract and snapshot pipeline GitHub OSS activity dashboards Waiting on design-github-oss-dashboard-topology-and-metric-contract — Build the GitHub GraphQL and REST extraction flow that produces versioned CSV or Parquet snapshots for static Dataface…
☐Design GitHub OSS dashboard topology and metric contract GitHub OSS activity dashboards — Define the board set, personas, metric families, entity grains, and cross-dashboard link matrix for GitHub repository a…
☐Implement GitHub OSS dashboard pack v1 GitHub OSS activity dashboards Waiting on build-github-actions-and-pages-publisher-for-dataface — Implement the interlinked GitHub activity dashboard pack, including contributor drill-through pages and a real example…
☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around quality rubric + review process so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for publication throughput operations across support, triage, and releas…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for template production pipeline with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tracking.

infra tooling (Sr Engineer Architect)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for developer tooling, local workflow reliability, and deployment execution safety: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐M4 v1.0 operating model closure and sign-off — Own the M4 closure artifact: verify the stabilization bar, operating model, regression-prevention posture, and owner-ba…
☐Add review path filtering for markdown-heavy mixed diffs — Teach scripts/review and the /pr workflow how to scope review input so large mixed code+markdown branches can be review…

integrations platform (Head of Engineering)

Post-launch stabilization is complete for deployment, billing, 5T connectivity, and operational reliability/launch integration: recurring incidents are reduced, support burden is lower, and quality gates are enforced consistently before release. The team has a repeatable operating model for maintenance, regression prevention, and measured reliability improvements.

☐Regression prevention and quality gates — Add or enforce regression gates around billing/connectivity operations so release quality is sustained automatically.
☐Sustainable operating model — Document and adopt sustainable operating model for reliability + launch operations across support, triage, and release…
☐v1.0 stability and defect burn-down — Run stability program for platform deployment/integration path with recurring defect burn-down and reliability trend tr…