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Founder work spreads across notes, tasks, opportunities, content ideas, and planning rituals. That tool-switching can make important work feel scattered, especially when the system does not clearly show what matters today.

Still to validate: which workflows are most valuable over repeated weekly use, and whether the current mental model holds up for founders beyond the original use case.

• Solo founders and early operators who need a calmer view of priorities and follow-through.
• Builders managing opportunities, content, notes, and planning without wanting a heavyweight project-management tool.
• Reviewers evaluating frontend architecture, persistence patterns, and realistic workflow design.

• Create a one-screen Focus Home that answers what needs attention now.
• Support fast capture, weekly planning, and opportunity tracking without making the UI feel loud.
• Persist local work clearly and expose honest source states such as Local only, Offline, or Synced.
• Keep the architecture ready for authenticated persistence without making cloud behavior a fake default.

Sole designer and engineer. I own the dashboard, the eight workflow domains, the repository-pattern data layer, the versioned storage and migration registry, the optimistic-concurrency and corruption-recovery behavior, the offline write queue, the AI proxy, the source-status language, and the CI gates for accessibility and bundle size.

• Focus Home acts as the command center instead of a generic dashboard, ranking the next smallest action rather than listing everything equally.
• Support modes, reminders, and next-move guidance are designed to reduce cognitive load, including an explicit "I'm overwhelmed" reset.
• Capture rehydrates an in-progress brain-dump from localStorage after a reload, and Journal autosaves on a debounce — quick input with recovery confidence instead of complex configuration.
• Persistence language stays explicit when work is local, synced, paused, or failed.

• Repository pattern across 8 domains. Opportunities, content, weekly brief, settings, chief, capture, journal, and reminders share one contract: normalize, read/write from the active source (local or Supabase), then emit cross-tab events for lightweight synchronization. Pages never need to know where data lives.
• Versioned-envelope storage. Each domain declares a schema version; writes are wrapped as { schemaVersion, domain, model, data }, and an envelope whose domain doesn't match the read site is rejected — closing the "wrong key swap" failure mode. A forward-compat migration registry lifts older payloads transparently.
• Optimistic concurrency for local CRUD. Records stamp updatedAt and reject stale saves with a typed StaleRecordError; the edit surface shows a friendly conflict message and refreshes the row under the open modal, so closing it reveals the current data.
• Corruption preservation, not silent loss. When a JSON parse fails, the corrupt blob is preserved under a timestamped key and a non-blocking banner tells the user — instead of quietly wiping their work.
• Offline write queue. Recoverable backend failures enqueue a FIFO-trimmed replay batch with stop-on-first-failure semantics and attempt counters; the topbar shows "Pending sync" only when writes are actually waiting to replay.
• AI proxy with safe failure. The Chief-of-Staff proxy handles abort and timeout, normalizes tool-like and plain-text model outputs, and falls back to a deterministic action plan labelled as such — never a blank panel.

• Constraint

  Founder workflows need quick capture and review before a production account system is ready.

• Decision

  Ship a hardened local-first layer — versioned envelopes, optimistic concurrency, corruption recovery, and an offline replay queue — while source-state copy explains what is local, paused, or synced.

• Tradeoff

  The product demonstrates production-grade data-integrity engineering, but multi-user Supabase sync stays a feature-gated upgrade path until authenticated duplicate-write flows are verified.

• Automated in CI: @axe-core/playwright scans every primary route against WCAG 2.0/2.1 A and AA plus best-practice rules, and serious or critical violations fail the build.
• The app shell includes skip-link and focus-restoration behavior for routed workflows.
• Focus modes and data rows are built to support keyboard interaction.
• Save, loading, error, and source states use clear status and alert copy where appropriate.
• Compact mobile navigation is treated as a tested workflow, not a purely visual breakpoint.

• Per-route bundle budgets run in CI, paired with a trend-regression check and a release-governed baseline refresh, so a route can't quietly get heavier between releases.
• Telemetry diagnostics and heavy detail are code-split away from the first Chief of Staff route bundle.
• Budgets guard bundle weight today; deployed Lighthouse field profiling is the honest next step, not a captured result yet.

• What's covered: the data-resilience behaviors are the test focus — stale-write rejection, envelope/domain-mismatch rejection, migration lift of older payloads, offline-queue replay order, and corruption-banner surfacing.
• Automated gates: axe-core accessibility scans and per-route bundle budgets both run in CI; serious/critical a11y violations or budget regressions fail the build.
• Evidence standard: local-first behavior is kept separate from the Supabase upgrade path, so unfinished cloud sync is never presented as complete.
• Still to validate: authenticated multi-user flows, concurrent cross-device updates, and guided-workflow fallback telemetry in a production-like environment.

The project is a working portfolio-grade founder workflow system with hardened local-first behavior and a feature-gated Supabase upgrade path. It is not positioned as a complete multi-user SaaS product yet.

For productivity tools, trust comes from reducing ambiguity: where the work is saved, what needs attention, and what action is realistic next. The product feels stronger when the interface — and the data layer behind it — names those states plainly instead of hiding failure behind dashboard polish.

• Complete authenticated multi-user UX review across the Supabase persistence path, then lift the feature gate.
• Broaden integration coverage for concurrent updates across domains.
• Add structured telemetry around guidance fallback and accepted next-step suggestions.
• Capture deployed Lighthouse field numbers and refresh screenshot/walkthrough assets after each major UI iteration.