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Six-Month SimplyCodes Roadmap with Two Kill Decisions — Day 90 Phase 0 deliverable

Build the six-month SimplyCodes product roadmap. Three to five initiatives, prioritized, sequenced, with success criteria and named owners. Two of those initiatives must be explicit kills — currently-scheduled work the candidate would stop, with the alternative use of the freed time argued explicitly. One-page roadmap document plus one-page kill-decisions argument doc.

Project Overview

Discipline

product-manager-simplycodes · founding-product-manager

Duration

2 weeks

Compensation

Your stated freelance rate

Surface

SimplyCodes · Revenue · Product.ai

Kernels

simplycodes · revenue · productai

Outcomes

sc-traffic · mlp-convert · new-revenue

Tier

Applied

Alpha Team

Open to alpha members who want to take this on

Tooling

Claude Code or Co-work

Why we want this done

The PM Phase 3 briefing names this as the Day 90 deliverable for the first SimplyCodes PM (along with the Day 30 State-of-Product memo and the Day 60 shipped initiative). Kill discipline is the rarest PM skill in 2026 because compression-era PMs were never trained to say no — every prioritization framework optimizes for what to add, not what to subtract. The PM briefing's Probe 3 (Eval-That-Was-Wrong) and Probe 5 (Work-Sample Live) are the hiring-stage proxies; this project is the working-day-90 proxy. The roadmap-with-kills tests strategic judgment under bootstrapped-economics constraints — a wrong "let's do everything" produces drift; a wrong "let's kill the wrong thing" loses revenue. Both are visible in this artifact. The CEO can read the doc and either accept the kills or argue them; the artifact carries the argument either way.

Scope

Inherit the State-of-Product memo (PRJ-21 if shipped) and the conversion-uplift learnings (PRJ-24 if shipped) — argue from them, don't re-derive
Survey current SimplyCodes work — engineering backlog, product debt, open initiatives, customer requests
Identify three to five initiatives the candidate would prioritize over the next 6 months
Identify two currently-scheduled initiatives the candidate would kill — name them
For each kept initiative — JTBD, success criterion, named owner, sequencing rationale
For each killed initiative — what's currently in flight, why it's the wrong thing, what the freed time goes to instead
One-page roadmap (the kept initiatives, sequenced)
One-page kill-argument doc (the two kills + alternative use of time)

What success looks like

The roadmap is one page (hard constraint)
The kill-decisions doc is one page (hard constraint)
Each kept initiative has a measurable success criterion on existing instrumentation
Each kill has a named alternative use of time — "stop X" without "start Y instead" is incomplete
The candidate explicitly defends the kills — does not negotiate them away under CEO pushback in the trial review
The CEO can read both docs in 10 minutes and understand the strategy

References

references.md

PM Phase 3 briefing axiom B6 (Live Demonstration Beats Proxy Filters), C2 (Onboarding Calendar), VERDICT 1 (SimplyCodes Senior PM mandate)
The State-of-Product memo (PRJ-21) and conversion-uplift learnings (PRJ-24) if shipped
SimplyCodes kernel and engineering backlog
Linear's Nan Yu first-PM precedent

Constraints

Claude Code or Co-work as primary substrate
One page each for roadmap and kill-argument — text overflow is a fail
Each kill must have a named alternative use of time — "stop X" without "start Y instead" is incomplete and a fail
The candidate may not negotiate the kills away under CEO trial review pressure — defending them IS the deliverable
Success criteria must be measurable on existing instrumentation
IP separation: SimplyCodes is application-layer; out-of-scope work stays out

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Read the Codex (10 min)

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12-minute video screen

Hireflix, async. Questions are calibrated to this project specifically.

Chemistry call (30-60 min)

Direct call with the CEO. Strategic alignment and mutual fit. No problem-solving exercise.

Project begins within 2-3 weeks

1099 contractor agreement, NDA, paid at your stated rate. Day 1 in Santa Monica.

Alpha Team members can take this project without the screen-and-call sequence. Reach out via the Alpha Team channel.

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