What's shipped.

Dashboard: animated score count-up, today's highlight, keyboard shortcuts (N → new idea, / → search), weekly digest opt-in banner

Ideas page: re-validate button with score diff display (Score: 79 → 82 +3), tool group filter pills (All / Analysis / Execution / Intelligence), share verdict clipboard button

Ideas new: 3 clickable example ideas, upgrade CTA when validations exhausted, dynamic loading overlay with 6 rotating messages

Blog: search, article count on filter pills, mid-article CTA at 60% scroll, TOC accordion on mobile, highlight-to-tweet, per-article OG image

Settings: usage stats strip, notification preferences (5 email toggles), GDPR data export as JSON attachment

Homepage: ROI calculator on pricing page, 'Who this is for' profiles, 'Last validated X ago' live badge, animated floating signal cards

Accessibility: :focus-visible ring globally, aria-label on all major inputs, screen-reader utilities

Launch Kit: generate a go-to-market brief for any validated idea — positioning statement, target audience, channel mix, and 30-day launch plan (Founder+)

Decision Queue: AI-ranked list of your ideas by strategic priority — updated nightly, with explanation per idea (Team+)

Engineering Intelligence: connect GitHub to unlock velocity metrics (cycle time, throughput, bottlenecks) and delivery estimates per idea (Team+)

Decision Audit Trail: full timeline of every verdict, re-validation, and outcome on an idea — PDF export for Studio+

Data Flywheel: report what happened after each verdict — GO/KILL/PIVOT outcomes feed into your accuracy score over time

Accuracy Report: monthly email with your personal GO / KILL accuracy rate vs. the platform average

Plans: Founder (20 validations/mo, €49/mo) · Team (unlimited, 3 seats, €99/mo) · Studio (unlimited, 8 seats, PDF export, €349/mo) · Enterprise (custom)

Studio plan launched at €349/month (€279/month annual) — white-label PDF exports, advanced team analytics, NET30 invoicing on request, and a full activity audit log

Pricing: Founder €49/month · Team €99/month · Studio €349/month — annual plans available with up to ~20% savings

Enterprise tier added for larger organizations: custom pricing, dedicated onboarding, SSO/SAML (Okta), contractual SLA, and custom DPA — contact via /enterprise

Annual billing available for Founder, Team, and Studio — switch in Settings → Billing

API Keys: Team and Studio users can generate personal API keys (po_live_...) for programmatic access to all validation endpoints

Keys are created and revoked in Settings → API — each key shows creation date and last used timestamp

Authenticate any API request with the X-API-Key header — same rate limits and plan gates as the web interface

Full API documentation at pledgeoff.com/api-docs — all 25 routes documented with request/response schemas and examples

Signal Feed (Team+): a live feed of trending startup niches ranked by heat score — 15 categories, continuously updated from real market signals, with sparklines showing momentum over the last 7 days

Decision log filters: filter your dashboard by GO, KILL, or PIVOT verdict — counts shown on each chip so you see the breakdown instantly

Team PDF export (Studio+): generate a white-label PDF report for any validated idea — covers the verdict, score breakdown, signals, and all intelligence tools run on the idea

Advanced team analytics (Studio+): verdict distribution donut chart, team velocity sparkline, top contributors ranked by activity, and most-engaged ideas by reaction count

Studio invoice billing: Studio plan users can request a NET30 invoice directly from Settings → Billing — the request is logged and the finance team follows up within one business day

Activity audit log (Studio+): every action taken by team members — idea creation, tool runs, plan changes, invite activity — recorded and viewable in Settings → Activity

Google Search added as a signal source alongside Reddit and GitHub — broader coverage for market validation

Domain redirect fixed: www.pledgeoff.com now correctly redirects to pledgeoff.com (308 permanent) — no more split authority in search rankings

Ask Otto — AI Co-Founder chat on every validated idea: ask strategy, competition, go-to-market, or what to build first

Otto remembers the full conversation per idea — close the page and come back later, the context is preserved

Founder plan includes 5 Otto questions/month; Team includes 15/month; Studio includes 50/month — included quota resets on the 1st of every month

Buy more questions anytime with one-time packs: 10 questions (€15), 25 (€30), 60 (€60), 150 (€120) — questions never expire and work across all your ideas

Balance display shows included remaining and extra questions separately — always know exactly what you have

Free users see the Otto panel locked with a direct upgrade prompt

Payment recovery flow: when a paid subscription payment fails, you now receive an email immediately with a link to update your card — your account stays active for 24 hours before any downgrade

Automatic retry: after 24 hours, the payment is retried automatically — if it succeeds, nothing changes; if it fails, the account is downgraded to Free

Team tab locked on payment failure: if your payment is unresolved, the Team section shows a clear notice with a direct link to the billing portal

Team context on idea creation: Founder and Team users with a team can now choose Personal or Team context when submitting a new idea — ideas tagged as Team appear in the team feed

Security hardening: SECURITY DEFINER functions no longer callable by unauthenticated users; trigger functions hardened against search_path injection

RLS performance: all row-level security policies updated to use the initplan optimization — auth evaluation now runs once per query instead of once per row

Env isolation: development builds now throw immediately if Stripe live keys are used accidentally; all Stripe price IDs validated at startup

Seat add-ons fully live: STRIPE_EXTRA_SEAT_PRICE_ID wired in production — extra seats at €20/seat/month now purchasable from Settings → Billing

Webhook fix: customer.subscription.updated no longer nullifies stripe_subscription_id — targeted updatePlan() replaces full upsert for plan/status updates

Team dashboard: Personal and Team tabs on the dashboard — switch between your own validations and your team's feed

Team pulse: stats bar showing total team validations, GO rate, pending count, and most active member

Verdict reactions: agree (↑) or disagree (↓) on any idea in the team feed — counts update live without a page reload

Team feed filters: filter by verdict (GO / KILL / PIVOT / Pending) and by individual member

Seat add-ons for Team+: buy extra team seats at €20/seat/month directly from Settings → Billing

Team collaboration: invite colleagues by email, accept invites via link, see team members in Settings → Team

Team name editable by the owner directly in Settings → Team

Accept-invite redirect fixed — clicking an email invite link after login now lands on the correct page

PDF and JSON export no longer marked as coming soon — available to Founder and Team users

Billing safety: unknown Stripe price IDs now throw instead of silently downgrading paying users to free

Cron security: missing CRON_SECRET now returns 503 (server misconfiguration) — bearer-undefined bypass no longer possible

Checkout route migrated to shared resolveUserId — auth pattern consistent across all API routes

Plan type has a single source of truth in @pledgeoff/core — duplicate definition removed from getUserPlan

Stripe webhook and waitlist route now log through Pino — all billing events visible in Axiom

Outbox cron returns 500 on processing failures — Vercel retries instead of marking failed runs as success

Welcome email is now fire-and-forget — Resend failures no longer cause Supabase to retry and send duplicate emails

Settings page now reads the subscription once — plan, renewsAt, and stripeCustomerId come from the same DB snapshot

Build restored — stale proxy.ts file removed after conflicting with middleware.ts in Next.js

Rules system overhauled: 10 contradictions and missing rules identified and documented

Billing rules codified: canonical plan resolution path, priceId error handling, getOrCreate scope

Auth layers documented: middleware (edge) vs requireUser (Server Components) vs resolveUserId (API routes)

5 new anti-patterns added to engineering rules: priceId fallback, secret guard bypass, email retry, Plan type duplication, console.* in routes

Architecture hardened: 19 silent-failure and code-quality issues resolved in one session

getUserPlan() no longer silently defaults to free on DB error — returns 500 so billing issues are visible

All 13 API routes now use a shared resolveUserId() — no more per-route duplicates that could drift

Next.js middleware added for /dashboard, /ideas, /settings — private pages are protected at the edge

Stripe test-key guard at cold start — production builds now throw immediately if sk_test_ key is set

Cron cleanup route returns 500 on failure so Vercel retries instead of silently marking it as success

Report page: DB errors now throw (500) instead of masking as 404

Paid plan now shows correctly in Settings — Account, Billing, and Team tabs all reflect the active subscription

Team seats now display correctly for Founder (was showing 1/1 due to a billing read failure)

Billing architecture hardened: single service client, centralized plan resolver, all errors logged instead of silently defaulting to free

Badge tooltips on desktop — hover over BUILD / OSS / BUY, Niche / Mid-size / Large, AI knowledge, and MRR to see a plain-English explanation

Mobile legend on all four tools — the same explanations appear as a static line below the section title, no hover needed

Settings page redesigned with sidebar navigation — Account, Billing, Notifications, API, Danger zone as separate panels

Landing Page tool now shows a live page preview (dark background, headline, features, CTA) without leaving the app

Landing Page tool adds a Copy HTML button — generates a standalone dark-mode page ready to publish on Carrd, Webflow, or any browser

Copy fields collapsed into an expandable 'Copy breakdown' section, keeping the interface clean by default

All six Intelligence tools now show a consistent loading animation and fade the content during re-runs

Market Simulation gains a Re-run button — no more page refresh needed to regenerate

Competitor and Build analysis now show gaps as full cards, consistent with the rest of the UI

Re-run errors are now shown inline near the action button instead of silently failing

Otto co-founder flow on idea page — verdict-aware recommendations guide you to the most relevant tools

GO verdict unlocks all tools; PIVOT and KILL show focused suggestions with explanations per blocked tool

Override button lets you run all tools regardless of Otto's recommendation

Intelligence tools list now starts with '01 Validate' as completed — clear sense of progress

Competitor analysis now supplements signal-based results with AI general knowledge — finds well-known players (e.g. CodeRabbit, Bito) even when absent from fetched signals

Competitors from general knowledge are clearly labelled with an 'AI knowledge' badge — full transparency on data source

GitHub signal quality improved: reactions filter tuned to remove bot/noise issues while keeping more real discussions

Engineering Stack no longer silently drops GitHub signals when other sources dominate — every source is guaranteed at least one rescued signal

Engineering Stack warning rewritten — explains what the analysis is based on instead of showing a bare count

Idea description limit raised from 300 to 1000 characters — more room to describe the problem, pricing, and target audience

Description character counter shows colour-coded progress bar (green → amber → red)

Two-column layout on idea page — verdict sticky left, signals scrollable right

Compact signal cards: title truncated, sentiment dot, View ↗ button

Light mode repaired — accent color (#4D6C00 olive), canvas/surface separation, visible borders

ThemeToggle: 3 buttons replaced with single dropdown

LLM-generated search queries replace keyword extractor — signals now match full idea text

GitHub: removed sort=reactions (now uses best-match ranking) + in:title qualifier

Reddit: removed type filter that silently returned 0 results

Parallel fetch: 2 queries × 2 sources, deduplicated by URL before save

Prod DB synced — 6 missing migrations applied via supabase db push

Full nav redesign — all actions consistently visible

Footer with social icons (X, TikTok, Instagram)

Sticky header across all pages

Consistent typographic hierarchy across the entire site

Dashboard redesign with sparklines and visual pipeline

Animated loading screen with 3 progress panels

Evidence wall with animated score count-up and glow effect

Score dimensions: Market Demand, Competition, Feasibility, Timing

Blog index and article pages with ToC and reading progress bar

Full Privacy Policy (GDPR, sub-processors, rights Art. 15–21)

Terms of Service (billing, trial, refund policy, governing law EU)

Cookie banner with consent management

AI verdict generated by Groq with Zod-validated schema

Versioned prompt (decision-prompt.v1) with 4 weighted dimensions

Score calculated from weighted average (Market Demand ×0.4, etc.)

Full idempotency — each event processed exactly once

Reddit adapter — live scraping via Reddit public JSON API

GitHub adapter — issues tagged with sentiment from reactions

Postgres event bus with outbox pattern and cron retry

Graceful degradation when a source is down

First deploy on pledgeoff.com

Email auth and Google OAuth via Supabase

POST /api/v1/ideas → real-time verdict

RLS enabled on all tables from day one