Now
What's in flight in System Design. Updated by every session that changes it.
In flight
SLW Data Engine — spine build (green-lit 2026-08-07) — Webster + Dewey unified as one product concept (substrate · registry · spine, services separate) and the spine build approved as Phase 1 of the Future AI plan. At stop point 1: the spine schema design is written and waiting on Shawn. One question gates the migrations — Ford's classifier emits free-text sectors; alias what matches and hold the rest as vocabulary proposals (recommended), or auto-create tags from model output? No migration has been applied.
Future AI — information design (Shawn, 2026-08-04) — the four-layer map (tools → data → visualization → Ask) as an 8-slide deck + PDF on the presentations shelf. The living plan is now architecture/future-ai-plan.md (updated 2026-08-07: Ford spine v1 + newsletter ingestion shipped; the nine gaps otherwise unchanged). Next call: green-light Phase 1, the shared spine (fleet mention store + typed tags + registry create/relationships).
Intelligence flow — the cross-app intelligence architecture (Ford · Terminal · Podcast · Webster · DealFlow/LP Flow) is mapped and verified. Open item: the Webster review queue (1,413 pending links) is Shawn's triage.
Propose and decide (Michael) — the front half of the review loop: propose a design, discuss, decide, then hand off to the lane that already works. Review & publish covers the back half already. Blocked on one call: does the surface live here or on the portal app hub.
Ford classification and handoff (Michael) — the gaps from the 8/4 call that the shipped pipelines don't cover: private vs public split, company vs LP classification, the Terminal → Ford new-company profile. Scope table needs cutting down.
Recently landed
- 2026-08-07 — Future AI plan refreshed against what shipped since the 8/4
audit: architecture/future-ai-plan.md.
Ford spine v1 (
ford.intake_links, slw-ford #1) and newsletter/body-only ingestion (slw-idea-atlas #53) landed; Webster, Terminal, LP Flow, DealFlow, Podcast, Dewey unchanged. - 2026-08-04 — System Design created: this repo, the rendered site at design.rivent.dev, and the fleet-wide session protocol.
- 2026-08-04 — Intelligence-flow diagram shipped to the portal's presentations shelf (dev-portal PR #149).
Next
- Shawn to work the decision queue in architecture/future-ai-plan.md — six calls, first among them the Phase 1 spine green-light; it gates everything downstream.
- Michael is building from here — the asks are permissions and decisions, not work handed back.