After the 9 September demo, Sarah's team told us what they need. On 21 September Sumant Guha (Partner Engagement & Experience) asked for help getting unmanaged partners to register their first deal. DCN now does that end to end, alongside registration with AI-checked proof, a leadership view built around partner experience, and the Q4 continuity play. The partner experience update for Sarah went through Kyle and Colin and reached send-ready (v4) on 11 October. A full persona UAT program now runs inside the product: 95 scripted steps across six roles, a sandbox that resets itself, and in-app bug reports into Linear. This week we started automated role videos, recorded in the sandbox and narrated in Kevin's cloned voice; the first is live. Honest about breakage: a feature was hidden by mistake for ten days, the in-app AI was failing silently, and the sandbox reset had been rolling back since 9 October. All three are fixed.
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Three moves in 48 hours that change the shape of what's next. Scott Ziegler (Adobe AVP) validated DCN + Deal Track architecture. David Maloof (Presales Leadership) committed to strategic advisor role and flagged branding gap. Book launched with real traction. This is the rubber meeting road.
Four workstreams over the next thirty days. The goal: get DCN and the SDR Hive pilot-ready, prove out the SEAC Hive, and stand up the Adobe / Slalom motion โ tested hard before we launch. This is where we'll need everybody.
No code today โ that was intentional. The Deal Track PRD is done, the Zak Kokosa reconnect is in his inbox, Mike Neumann has the text, and Scott Ziegler has outreach. Tomorrow: write the v0.8 prompt in Claude, validate, hand to Jon. Never experiment in Lovable.
This is the largest single advantage Hyvara has over every competitor in the space. We did not assemble generic startup boilerplate. Every legal document, every governance framework, and every operational boundary reflects the same constitutional principle: people are heroes, AI amplifies, the system is a producer, credibility includes "I don't know," and what we refuse to do matters as much as what we do.