This is the authoritative status index for the Phase 1 assessment. Each item states the conclusion, business meaning, evidence, remaining action, accountable owner, and where to inspect the detail.
Validated means the approach has representative live proof. It does not mean the full current baseline or contractual report package is complete.
The live site and working demo are separately authorized validation evidence. They show that the recommended design can work; they are not the SOW’s software deliverable.
The prototype, tool surface, instruction layer, API paths, hosting, and dependencies have been reviewed.
The test assets, failure taxonomy, evidence layers, and replay method are ready; a current pass rate is not.
A task-level MCP boundary now shows how identity, completeness, qualifiers, errors, and evidence can be enforced.
The technical path is sequenced from evidence closeout to a dependable demonstration and later customer hardening.
Pending by decision. This assessment site does not present a fixed price, milestone pricing, staffing commitment, or delivery date.
All seven named SOW KPIs have definitions, recommended targets, and accountable owners.
The executive and engineering story is ready to walk through; the contractual review session has not been held.
The site contains the current assessment story and supporting sections, but it is not the contractual editable/PDF package.
A future proposal must separately authorize its fixed total, price by milestone, staffing commitment, acceptance criteria, dependencies, exclusions, risk allowance, and delivery date. The directional roadmap is not that proposal.
These site sections account for every redlined appendix. Consolidation into the final editable/PDF report remains pending.
Show the current and target component boundaries.
Before/after service architecture is current on the site.Show the ordered path from customer wording to a supported answer.
The six-step natural-language sequence is current on the site.Show which facts cross each system boundary and where they are checked.
The data-flow view separates interpretation from catalog evidence.Show how task-level tools orchestrate OptiCat operations.
Task and operation examples are mapped without exposing API complexity to users.Make delivery, data, evaluation, and commercial uncertainty explicit.
Risks have an impact, response, and owner.Separate settled technical choices from open business decisions.
Each decision records rationale, owner, state, and reversibility.Sequence Phase 1 closeout, demonstration work, and production hardening.
Each stage has actions, an outcome, and an exit gate.The source, the prompts, the deployments, and the path a customer question actually took to reach the catalog.
Vehicle, VIN, fitment, interchange, replacement, and product detail—and which of those fields survive all the way to the customer.
Historical failures, incomplete lists, guessed fitment, and cases where a service problem was described as “no results.”
We replayed live catalog journeys and built a target that keeps identity, completeness, and evidence in the service—not in the model.
The prototype already reaches OptiCat and covers the journeys that matter. The catalog connection is proven; the answer path needs enforcement.
Decision: keep the proven service foundation and repair the output behavior.Fund exact identity, fitment conditions, complete result lists, honest errors, and one evaluation gate. That is what turns a working demo into a dependable product.
Decision: prioritize customer trust and repeatability.Vehicle, VIN, fitment, interchange, and replacement journeys now run live with qualified results. Feasibility is proven. A measured pass rate is the remaining Phase 1 gate.
Decision: proceed to a bounded Phase 2 if closeout results hold.Source, history, configuration, and the original catalog connection.
API documentation and a live development key we could exercise.
Historical QA notes, failing examples, and the expected-answer context around them.
The Phase 1 SOW, the customer journeys, and what a demonstration is supposed to prove.
What to keep, what to repair, and what should never be treated as a customer answer.
Why a correct catalog call could still produce an incomplete or overconfident answer.
Live vehicle, VIN, fitment, interchange, and replacement journeys with evidence attached.
Where remaining effort should go, and in what order, before anyone funds a rewrite.
Representative live success is not a measured pass rate. The complete set still needs one rubric and one frozen configuration.
Tenexity with OptiCat adjudicationA few historical cases need the catalog owner to say what the right answer actually is.
OptiCat catalog and API ownerOne editable Assessment Report, a PDF, and the required appendices—not a folder of working drafts.
TenexityWalk the findings, see the live demo, and decide whether to authorize Phase 2.
OptiCat executive and engineeringPhase 1 is a written assessment, not a software delivery. The live demo is a separately authorized validation artifact. Remediation and production hardening require Phase 2 authorization.