End-to-End or Nothing

What this means for you

Traceo is not declared a success when the MCP server runs or the diagrams render. Success is one regulated team running one real program end-to-end in Traceo without retreating to a spreadsheet. Capture, trace, baseline, audit. The whole loop has to hold, or none of it counts.

The pitch

Each component already exists: ingestion, requirements, traceability, baselines via the Ariel pipeline, knowledge, an MCP tool surface for agent integration, a Next.js client. The launch milestone is not adding a feature. It is the moment those pieces carry a real program from intake to inspection-ready audit log without a workaround.

Who it’s for

The advisor or design partner asking what the launch criterion actually is, and the engineer asking why we are not shipping the MCP server alone first.

Proof points

• Success is defined in PRODUCT.md as a regulated team running a program end-to-end in Traceo, plus a modern dev team adopting it as their spec system without compliance dragging them
• The capture-trace-baseline-prove loop is written into the product purpose, not assembled from scattered features
• The client app already surfaces the seven views the loop needs: sessions, requirements, traceability graphs, baselines, runs, knowledge, and tools
• A separate production-readiness plan exists in the repo, treating launch as a checklist of states that have to hold rather than a date

timeline
  title Path a real program has to walk
  Intake : Sessions and AI-assisted authoring
  Define : Requirements with relationship schema
  Trace  : Traceability graph as a first-class view
  Freeze : Baseline via the Ariel pipeline
  Prove  : Audit log a procurement team will accept
  Ship   : Inspection passes without retreat to a spreadsheet