Made Pilot the primary learning loop. The whole point of Pilot is safe onboarding with high-fidelity behavior but no real effects. Teams configure their policies, run realistic scenarios, and build confidence in the evaluation model before anything touches a live system.
Ensured that Pilot feedback translates directly into Alpha hardening work. If a team discovers a gap during Pilot, that gap gets tracked as an Alpha requirement, not filed away as "known limitation." The feedback loop between Pilot usage and Alpha readiness has to be tight or you end up shipping the same gaps that testing surfaced.
Added Pilot packaging and namespacing separation with pilot-safe defaults. When you install in Pilot mode, everything is sandboxed by default. You have to explicitly promote configurations to Alpha. No accidental promotions.
Built deterministic stub execution for all connectors in Pilot mode. No outbound calls, ever. The stubs are realistic enough to validate policy behavior but safe enough to run without any infrastructure dependencies.
This is the week the roadmap becomes explicit: Pilot, then Alpha hardening, then Funding, then ship safely.