# Beacon / Q4 planning room — stakeholder brief

Period: October–December 2026

## Proposed release plan

### Now · Foundation
- Opinionated starter templates · Mara
- An unambiguous activation event · Noor
- Exports that survive the handoff · Jules
- Capacity: Engineering 13.0/16.0 person-days
- Capacity: Design 7.0/8.0 person-days

### Next · First value
- A guided first useful result · Jules
- Capacity: Engineering 12.0/22.0 person-days
- Capacity: Design 0.0/7.0 person-days

### Later · Expansion
- One shared review room · Noor
- Capacity: Engineering 11.0/18.0 person-days
- Capacity: Design 0.0/5.0 person-days

## Risks and cuts
- One shared review room: Fits team capacity after dependencies; deadline at risk
- Reliable notes on the move: Explicitly blocked
- The first portable API surface: No release has sufficient remaining team capacity after dependencies
- A weekly executive summary: Explicitly deferred

## Changed initiatives
2 changed, added or removed. See changes.json for exact before/after values.

Dependency-ready RICE greedy planning; finish-to-start across releases; indivisible team effort. A transparent heuristic, not an optimal project scheduler.

Estimates and success targets are proposals. No project tracker was changed.