Notes on 2025-05-01 design review. Picked back up after the last review.
Related: 2024-01-21 north star, 2026-09-21 saas.
Cross-section thread: daily wedge 342. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Deploy → design review → thesis. Worth a second pass; the deploy angle keeps coming back.
- Retrieval → customer → 401k. Worth a second pass; the retrieval angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.