Product roadmap

Review, Scout, Self Analysis and Learn now carry stronger trust gates: evidence-first Scout, Review→training DNA, puzzle legality, lesson resume, fail-closed Review metering, and durable share cards. First-value timing and Device Trust remain in place. Real traffic and observed usability sessions must still prove the activation target; R0 is not claimed complete.

• ✓Outcome navigation: Home, Analyse a Game, Prepare and Train (done)
• ✓Home begins with four clear intentions instead of a feature directory (done)
• ✓Recurring-pattern promise aligned across metadata, install copy and footer (done)
• ✓Self Analysis leads with evidence-backed “What’s Holding You Back?” language and an honest thin-sample state (done)
• ✓Verified Lichess self-analysis plus a bounded private-unverified Chess.com workspace (done)
• ✓Unverified Chess.com reports suppress ownership claims and public self-sharing (done)
• ✓Privacy-safe activation, connection, training, sharing and retention event contract (done)
• ✓Imported-history source, freshness, game coverage and confidence at first view (done)
• ✓Unassisted five-player usability protocol and release criteria (done)
• ✓Explicit password first factor and new-device trust handoff (done)
• ✓Database-unique Lichess identity binding with audited duplicate-claim recovery (done)
• ✓Game URL / PGN → private cancellable completed-game review (done)
• ✓Browser-local first-value timing and private under-three-minute KPI (done)
• ✓Review completion seeds From My Games training, recurring patterns and personal DNA (done)
• ✓Scout evidence-first screen with sample size, confidence and freshness on claims (done)
• ✓Durable Scout share links with revoke, expiry and Open Graph previews (done)
• ✓Shipped offline puzzles fail closed on illegal FEN or solution lines (done)
• ✓Interactive lessons resume locally; Finish requires completed required steps (done)
• ✓Invalid Review PGN rejected before quota reservation (unit-proven fail/cancel/expire restore) (done)
• ✓Style Bot strength labelled from offline measurement (measured, not verified Elo) (done)
• ✓Style Bot independent engine-match proxy evidence present (never verified Elo) (done)
• ✓Opening / middlegame / endgame representative lesson browser matrix (done)
• ✓Controlled Review engine-failure refund proof (secret-gated API + unit) (done)
• ✓Exact-commit launch gates fail when R0 automated suite fails on HEAD SHA (done)
• ✓Public Game Autopsy share cards from Review (durable when signed in) (done)
• ✓Numeric lesson scoring on Finish with local progress persistence (done)
• ✓Optional full interactive lesson catalogue Playwright suite (done)
• ✓Local golden analysis agreement for scores, mate, branches and motifs (done)
• ✓Review URL/PGN shape validated before quota reserve (done)
• ✓Exact-commit browser pack script for pages/board/puzzles/lessons (done)
• ✓Style Bot human-corpus pilot schema (missing licensed data; never verified Elo) (done)
• ✓Organic outage refund ops checklist schema (ops-pending until live run) (done)
• ○First useful evidence in under three minutes, validated with real users (pending)
• ✓One automatic finding, evidence example and next action on first run (done)
• ✓Review → retry → targeted training handoff measured end to end (done)
• ✓Completed-game provider retry and focused PGN fallback gated in mobile WebKit (done)
• ○Organic live-provider outage refund proof on production (ops-run) (pending)
• ○Rated-human Style Bot Elo verification with licensed corpus (pending)
• ○Hosted concurrent live Stockfish golden agreement under load (pending)
• ○Continue physical-device, Safari, tablet and hybrid-touch regression testing (pending)

The next wave is deliberately driven by what early users repeatedly struggle with or ask for, rather than adding features simply to make the product larger.

• ✓Turn username or completed game into insight → evidence → next action (done)
• ○Grow guided lesson and drill coverage where review data shows useful gaps (pending)
• ○Add shareable Player DNA, Matchups and evidence-backed ChessTing Cards (pending)
• ○Prepare coach discovery, verification and registration for a controlled reopening (pending)
• ○Use suggestion-box feedback to rank product polish and feature work (pending)

The underlying marketplace infrastructure exists, but ChessTing is deliberately keeping new coach registration, lesson payments and payout onboarding closed during Early Access. These only return after an explicit launch review.

• ✓Existing coach directory and lesson-request flow (done)
• ✓Private messaging after a request is accepted (done)
• ✓Per-lesson allocation, refund, dispute and settlement infrastructure (done)
• ○Reopen new coach registration only after explicit launch review (pending)
• ○Re-enable Stripe lesson checkout only after explicit launch review (pending)
• ○Re-enable coach payout onboarding only after explicit launch review (pending)
• ○Complete booking/calendar experience beyond message-based scheduling (pending)

• ✓Verified Lichess identity, friends, blocking and privacy controls (done)
• ✓Unified messages, coach threads and safer peer-message controls (done)
• ✓Production migration/schema gates and fail-closed operational checks (done)
• ✓Shared-board mobile, scrolling and hybrid-touch stability work (done)
• ✓Review count consistency and stronger Scout / Self separation (done)

• ✓Profiles, Training Feed, social activity and forums (done)
• ✓Coach workspace, lesson requests and coach directory (done)
• ✓EN/ES/PT UI foundation and regional pricing display (done)
• ✓Evidence/confidence states and sparse-data honesty (done)
• ✓Responsive, accessibility and public trust/SEO passes (done)

• ✓Chess.com and Lichess opponent Scout (done)
• ✓Browser Stockfish Game Review and move-quality analysis (done)
• ✓Plain-English coaching, scouting reports and Victory Plans (done)
• ✓Learn hub, guided lessons, drills, bots and Style Bot (done)
• ✓Live Arena, Prep, tournament tools and Position Analyzer (done)
• ✓Accounts, cloud sync, pricing and Player Pro infrastructure (done)

• ○Native iOS / Android apps (pending)
• ○Real-time ChessTing PvP matchmaking (pending)
• ○Verified Chess.com ownership integration if provider support becomes available (pending)
• ○Native push notifications (pending)
• ○Broader localisation beyond the current language foundation (pending)