ARDENT LABS/ LAUNCH CONTROL
Board rev 14 · compiled 11 Aug 2026, 09:00 PT
Beacon 2.0 · General availability · Go / no-go
GO
with two caveats
on the critical path

Four of six workstreams are launch-ready. Security review and support enablement carry the two open caveats, both with named owners and dates that land before the freeze. No Sev-1 defects are open and the beta cohort has run clean for eleven days.

Decision owner · R. Okonkwo, VP Product Next review · 6 Oct, 15:00 PT
Time to GA On schedule
T–58 days
Ships Wednesday 8 October 2026 · 09:00 PT
Design lock24 Jul
Beta cohort31 Jul
Readiness11 Aug
Code freeze18 Sep
GA8 Oct
Workstreams ready
4of 6
Open blockers
2both dated
Sev-1 defects
014-day trend flat
Launch confidence
86%up from 71%

Readiness by workstream

Ready At risk Blocked
Workstream
Owner
Status
Latest note
Complete
EngineeringRelease build 2.0.0-rc4
Priya RamanEng lead
Ready
RC4 stable for 11 days; rollback path rehearsed twice in staging.
96%
Security reviewExternal pen test
Dan WhitfieldSecurity
At risk
Two medium findings open; retest booked 12 Sep, one week of slack.
74%
DocumentationGuides, API reference
Marisol VegaTech writing
Ready
All 42 pages drafted and reviewed; migration guide in final edit.
91%
Support enablementTier 1 and Tier 2
Tomas EgedeSupport ops
At risk
Only 9 of 24 agents certified; two extra training slots added for Sep.
58%
MarketingAnnouncement and campaign
Ines BaptisteProduct marketing
Ready
Launch post, press kit and 3 customer stories approved and staged.
94%
Pricing and packagingPlans, billing migration
Alan SørensenRevenue ops
Ready
Grandfathering rules signed off; billing migration dry run passed.
100%

Blocking issues

2 open · 1 cleared this week
BL-114 High

Pen test findings not yet retested

Two medium-severity findings in the token exchange path are fixed in RC4 but await the external retest before sign-off.

Owner Dan WhitfieldDue 12 SepSlack 6 days
BL-121 Medium

Support certification below the 80% bar

Nine of 24 agents certified on Beacon 2.0. Two extra sessions on 9 and 16 Sep bring the cohort to 21 if attendance holds.

Owner Tomas EgedeDue 25 SepSlack 13 days
BL-098 Cleared

Billing migration dry run

Closed 7 Aug. All 1,480 sample accounts migrated with no price drift; rollback verified.

Owner Alan SørensenClosed 7 Aug

Launch-day runbook · 8 October

All times PT
06:00T–3h
War room opens, final health check
Priya Raman · Eng · dashboards green, on-call paged in
07:30T–90m
Final go / no-go call
R. Okonkwo · decision owner · six leads, 15 minutes, one verdict
08:15T–45m
Flip feature flags to 10% of traffic
Priya Raman · Eng · hold 30 minutes, watch error rate and latency
09:00T–0
Beacon 2.0 general availability
Ramp to 100%, docs go live, announcement publishes
09:05T+5m
Announcement, press kit and customer emails send
Ines Baptiste · Marketing · 34,000 recipients in three waves
09:30T+30m
Support desk surge staffing begins
Tomas Egede · Support · 12 agents on shift through 18:00
13:00T+4h
Midday checkpoint and metrics read-out
All leads · adoption, error budget, ticket volume
17:00T+8h
Day-one summary published, war room stands down
R. Okonkwo · rollback window stays open for 72 hours
Rollback trigger. Any Sev-1 defect, an error rate above 2% for ten minutes, or a failed billing reconciliation returns traffic to 2.9 within fifteen minutes. The call belongs to the on-call engineer and needs no approval.