V5.6 baseline
GitHub source and editable Beehiiv template exist.
Execution view · evidence cutoff 4 Sep 2026
What is actually ready
This board separates current working assets from observed live surfaces, historical reference material, unresolved work, and hard blockers.
The publication exists. The new production line has not yet been proven end to end.
Key distinction
Issue 00 proves Beehiiv can publish and deliver. It does not prove that V5.6, the root-domain sender, or the newly reconstructed factory works.
Current board
Capability by area
Current / observedReference onlyOpenBlocked
| Area | State | What is true now | Next proof |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published product | Observed live | Issue 00 is publicly published and the live issue displayed a $139 annual offer. | Do not confuse the older issue structure with the selected V5.6 direction. |
| Brand system | Current working | REV 2 core plus the scoped email application profile is the current recorded package. | Use the core for general identity and the email profile only for newsletter work. |
| Email design | Current working | V5.6 is the selected baseline: logo, palette, six-level type hierarchy, greeting, story map, weighted lead, quick hits, close, poll, footer. | Test it with real issue content in received email clients. |
| Beehiiv template | Built, unproven | An editable native template named “New template” was assembled tonight from V5.6. | Create a private miniature issue and verify every component after delivery. |
| Web domain | Observed live | www.thenextpatient.com is live and the root domain redirects. | Retest after future DNS or Beehiiv changes. |
| Landing page | Partial | The live Beehiiv page is responsive and usable but visually generic relative to V5.6. | Give it a separate V5.6-aligned design pass after the send path works. |
| Sender identity | Hard blocker | Beehiiv still shows steves-newsletter-659b04@mail.beehiiv.com; the root-domain option does not respond. | Resolve Beehiiv ticket/control and verify the received From address. |
| Binary assets | Reconciled | The room manifest contains 78 verified R2 pointers. V5.6 HTML and masthead are in GitHub; render and lead-image proofs are in R2. | Add new generated assets through the manifest—not through filenames in chat. |
| Source & selection method | Revalidate | The August line ran once and produced Issue 00. Its detailed gate/ranking documents predate the September authority cleanup. | Run a fresh small source pack and decide what mechanics survive based on observed usefulness. |
| Factory documentation | Reconciled here | Revision 3.2 was the newest old floor plan. Its durable station logic was carried forward; its old ownership and status claims were not. | Update this board from actual runs, without promoting process chatter into rules. |
| Cross-model handoff | Open | GitHub and R2 provide the shared spine. A model must still reload the named room state and artifact before acting. | Use one self-contained handoff per job and record the resulting evidence. |
| Intel / Reading Room migration | Separate track | The legacy CoWork routines remain outside this Monday production path. | Recreate and verify them after the TNP send path is stable. |
Release gates
What must turn green
The first and third gates are partly in hand. The sender is the only current hard block.
Blocked · sender
Private sample
Send only to Steve after the root-domain identity works.
Gate · received proof
Corrected template
Repair what Gmail exposes and repeat until clean.
Gate · Steve locks
Sunday production
Full source-to-send cycle for Monday's issue.
Current stop: the first red gate—the sending identity.Later gates remain red because the line has not reached them, not because they have failed.
Tomorrow's operating sequence
Seven steps to proof
Each step produces a visible result before the next one starts.
- Resolve and verify the root-domain sender in Beehiiv.
- Create one private miniature issue from the V5.6 template.
- Send only to
steve@ztsholdings.comand inspect it in Gmail. - Correct the template failures exposed by the received email.
- Rename and freeze the tested working template.
- Run small daily issues through the same line to expose friction.
- Produce the complete issue Sunday for Monday delivery.