WS2 · Commission Engine · bottom-up status for Steerco #2.
Compiled 17 June 2026 by Carla Oliver · PMO Director · CoSai for the Steering Committee meeting on 22 June 2026 at Wotso Sippy Downs. Steerco attendees: Mathew Punter (Founder/CEO, Flip 360), Corrina McGowan (CEO, YDT), Carla Oliver (CEO, CoSai).
1 · Headline · what Steerco needs to know in one paragraph
WS2 Commission Engine is real on the CRM, rules, ledger and ABA-payout side — 50+ live routes, 9 verticals, 30 products, 9 active commission rules and a $10,700 seed ledger demonstrate the engine end-to-end. It is a sophisticated mockup on the Stripe Connect, hardware-signature and observability side. Milestone 1 (six functional guarantees demo + ADR-7 at SC#1) was not formally evidenced; Milestone 2 (Stripe Connect test mode by SC#2) cannot be met by 22 Jun 2026 because the Stripe SDK is not installed and no API keys are wired. The PMO recommends Steerco #2 (a) acknowledge the structural gap between marketing copy and runtime, (b) ratify a hardening sprint to make the copy true by SC#4, and (c) approve a re-baseline of Milestone 2 to "ABA file generation validated end-to-end + Stripe Connect integration scoped" pending vendor selection.
2 · Live engine metrics · pulled from D1 17 June 2026
These numbers are not narrative. They are the actual row counts in the live Cloudflare D1 database
flip360-commission
(6bf8957f-c714-46c7-b752-ef9b0d597d1f) at the moment this report was compiled. They
will move as the engine moves. Seed data is identified inline where it is the source.
3 · Phase 1 milestones · evidence vs target
One section per Phase 1 milestone for this workstream. Each section names the target, surfaces the evidence that does or does not exist in the repo today, identifies the gap in plain English, names the owner and a realistic ETA, and where Steerco action is required, states the escalation ask.
Six functional guarantees demo run for Mathew · ADR-7 ratified at first Steerco
Evidence in repo / D1 / runtime
Gap
The surfaces that *would* support a six-guarantees demo exist (/demo, /walkthrough, /see-it-work, /architecture). What does not exist is a formally captured demo run with Mathew signing off each guarantee against a defined acceptance test. This is a documentation gap, not a platform gap.
| Owner | Carla Oliver |
|---|---|
| ETA | 2026-06-22 |
| Steerco ask | Run a 30-minute formal six-guarantees demo at the start of Steerco #2 (already at Wotso, all parties present). Mathew signs the acceptance card live. ADR-7 drafted into /docs by 24 Jun 2026 and ratified by email. |
Stripe Connect test mode validated end-to-end · idempotency hardening complete
Evidence in repo / D1 / runtime
Gap
The single largest gap between marketing copy and runtime. The site references Stripe Connect heavily (faq.tsx, sweetener.tsx, architecture.tsx) as the rail that lets the platform take a 1% application_fee_amount while principal moves member-to-member. None of it is wired. The honest alternative — ABA file generation — *is* wired, tested, and produces APCA-format files. The decision in front of Steerco is whether to integrate Stripe Connect during Phase 1 (3-4 day sprint) or formally re-baseline to ABA-only for the Vertical-1 pilot and defer Stripe Connect to Phase 2.
| Owner | Carla Oliver (Workstream Lead) |
|---|---|
| ETA | blocked — needs Steerco #2 decision |
| Steerco ask | Steerco #2 must decide one of three paths: (a) approve a 3-4 day Stripe Connect sprint between SC#2 and SC#3 (10 working days available); (b) re-baseline the milestone to "ABA validated end-to-end + Stripe Connect scoped & estimated" and defer Connect integration to Phase 2; (c) accept the slip with no re-baseline and carry as Red RAID. The PMO recommends (a) — Stripe Connect is the rail the investor narrative depends on. Cost is 3-4 days of engineering. Air BnB, Afterpay and Uber all run on platforms with the equivalent integration — Flip 360 cannot credibly claim the same breed without it. |
Observability stack live · error-rate dashboard · payout SLA dashboard
Evidence in repo / D1 / runtime
Gap
Eight weeks away from this Steerco — still time to plan, not yet time to escalate. Recommended action at SC#2: confirm vendor choice (Sentry vs Honeycomb vs native Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine). Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine is the lowest-friction choice and aligns with the existing Worker runtime — recommend scoping at SC#3 and shipping by SC#4.
| Owner | Carla Oliver |
|---|---|
| ETA | 2026-07-20 |
Platform handover-ready for Phase 2 BAU operation · FY27 budget ratified for KPI lock
Evidence in repo / D1 / runtime
Gap
12 weeks out, on the critical path. No escalation needed at SC#2. Carla flags at SC#2 that FY27 budget drafting will commence in W6 (post SC#3) and lock at SC#6 for Phase 2 Schedule signature. SC#6 has been brought forward by 1 week to 17 Aug to preserve the fortnightly cadence — the 14-day gap from SC#6 to G4 cutover on 31 Aug is used for sign-off paperwork.
| Owner | Carla Oliver |
|---|---|
| ETA | 2026-08-17 |
4 · Decisions Steerco needs to make
What this report needs the Steering Committee to decide at meeting #2. Each ask is named, scoped, and carries a PMO recommendation. The Steerco paper at /engagement/pmo/steerco/2 records the disposition.
Steerco to choose: (a) 3-4 day Stripe Connect sprint between SC#2 and SC#3, (b) re-baseline to "ABA validated + Connect scoped", or (c) accept slip as Red RAID. PMO recommends (a).
Conduct the six-functional-guarantees demo at the start of SC#2 (Wotso, in person). Mathew signs the acceptance card live. ADR-7 drafted by 24 Jun and ratified by countersigned email by 27 Jun.
Steerco to nominate the observability path — Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine (recommended), Sentry, or Honeycomb. Decision required at SC#3 to allow SC#4 ship date.
Steerco to formally acknowledge that current marketing copy on /faq, /sweetener and /architecture references capabilities (Stripe Connect, Apple Pay-grade signatures, KPMG/EY anchoring) that are aspirational at this date. PMO to publish a "Phase 1 hardening" backlog at /engagement/pmo/backlog that tracks every claim to either evidence or a sprint, with copy scrubbed only when no sprint is committed. NEVER soften the ambition — accelerate the build so the copy becomes true.
5 · Standard of diligence
Flip 360 is in the same breed as the tech IPOs of Air BnB, Afterpay, Uber, AirTasker, Canva, Atlassian and Zoom. The standard of diligence applied to this workstream is the standard those companies were held to at this stage of their journey — not the standard a corporate pre-revenue SaaS gets away with. Every claim in marketing copy is either evidenced today or has a sprint committed against it on the published backlog. The PMO will never soften the ambition to make the report look better — we accelerate the build so the report becomes truer.