feat(veridical-week11): Project Veridical Week 11 of 12 — Production Hardening & Go-Live Confirmed
VRDCL-ESR-011 — Production Hardening Complete, Go-Live April 21 Confirmed
GO-LIVE CONFIRMED: April 21, 2026 (+812 users, 14 departments, ~1,360 total)
- VP Engineering + CTO confirmed (Apr 11)
- Rollout schedule: 06:00 smoke test → 08:00 batch activation → 09:00 war room
Key Metrics (Week 10 → Week 11):
- Retrieval Accuracy: 94.1% → 94.2% (+0.1 pp, 11 consecutive weeks)
- Query Latency P95: 0.96s → 0.94s (-2.1%, programme best)
- Token Cost/Query: $0.017 → $0.016 (-5.9%, programme best)
- System Uptime: 99.99% maintained (18 min planned, 0 failures)
- Document Corpus: 1.38M → 1.42M (+40K)
- Pilot Users: 548 (stable pre-rollout), training 100%
Production Hardening Sprint — PASSED:
- Pen test: 0 critical, 0 high (NCC Group). 2 medium remediated same day
- Chaos engineering: 6/6 scenarios passed (avg recovery 16.7s):
Pod failure 8s, AZ failover 42s, network partition 15s,
DB failover 22s, cache flush 3.2s, inference failure 11s
- Runbooks: 14/14 validated, avg 12.4 min (17% below target)
- On-call: 4 engineers, 3 time zones, 24/7 coverage
Pinecone Serverless Migration:
- 69% annual cost reduction ($52K → $16K, saving $36K/yr)
- 0 query failures, -14ms latency improvement
- VR-003 mitigation: 92% → 98%
Compliance & Governance:
- SOC 2 evidence: 78% → 91% (exceeding 90% target)
- ISO 42001: 93% → 95% (highest; governance GREEN 2 consecutive weeks)
- User training: 91% → 100% (final gate condition met)
- CSAT: 4.5 → 4.6/5.0
Risk:
- REI: 0.03 → 0.02 (4th consecutive programme low)
- 3 closed, 3 active (all LOW, all recommended for closure at W12)
- VR-003: 1.76 → 0.75, VR-004: 2.0 → 1.2, VR-005: 1.08 → 0.56
Budget:
- $1,008K → $1,094K of $1.42M (77.0%, 91.7% schedule)
- CPI: 1.17, SPI: 1.06 → 1.08
- EAC: $1.20M (-$220K underrun, 15.5% budget return)
- Weekly burn: $86K (down from $90K)
Visionary — Operational Readiness Paradox:
- MTTR 16.7s vs 5-15 min industry (18-54× faster)
- Chaos pass rate 100% vs 65% industry
- Hardening ROI: 4.0× (single avoided outage pays for sprint)
Technical Delivery:
- veridical-week11.html: 39 KB, 366 lines, dark theme, 0 errors, 8.9s load
- API: 13 new endpoints (all HTTP 200), 24 regression (all HTTP 200)
- server.js: 6,415 lines
- 21 HTML dashboards total