feat(veridical-week10): Project Veridical Week 10 of 12 — Go/No-Go Gate: PRODUCTION RELEASE APPROVED
VRDCL-ESR-010 — Go/No-Go Production Gate & Final Benchmarking
GATE DECISION: FULL PRODUCTION RELEASE APPROVED (6-0 Unanimous)
- Executive Steering Committee vote: 6-0 (CTO, VP Eng, VP AI, CISO, GC, CFO)
- All 4 gate criteria exceeded by significant margins
- CTO: 'Most well-evidenced technology programme go-live I have reviewed'
Key Metrics (Week 9 → Week 10):
- Retrieval Accuracy: 93.8% → 94.1% (+0.3 pp, 10 consecutive weeks improvement)
- Query Latency P95: 0.98s → 0.96s (-2.0%, programme best)
- Token Cost/Query: $0.018 → $0.017 (-5.6%, programme best)
- System Uptime: 99.98% → 99.99% (+0.01 pp)
- Document Corpus: 1.31M → 1.38M (+70K)
- Pilot Users: 540 → 548 (+8)
Gate Criteria (all PASSED):
- Accuracy 94.1% (≥92.0% threshold, +2.1 pp buffer)
- Latency 0.96s (≤1.50s threshold, 36% headroom)
- Uptime 99.99% (≥99.90% threshold, 0 downtime)
- Cost $0.017 (≤$0.035 threshold, 51% below limit)
72-Hour Sustained Load Test:
- 150% peak traffic, 32,100 queries/day, 96,300 total queries
- P95 0.97s (within 1% of production baseline)
- P99 1.34s, Error rate 0.002%
- Zero degradation (p = 0.82), signed off by VP Eng + CISO
Risk & Governance:
- REI improved 0.04 → 0.03 (programme lowest)
- 3 risks closed, 3 active (all LOW, all trending to closure)
- No new risks at gate review
- ISO 42001: 91% → 93% (governance track → GREEN first time)
- SOC 2 evidence: 68% → 78%
Budget:
- Spent: $918K → $1,008K of $1.42M (71.0% consumed, 83.3% schedule)
- CPI: 1.16 → 1.17, SPI: 1.06
- EAC: $1.21M (-$210K underrun, 14.8% budget return)
- Weekly burn: $90K (down from $94K, no new feature development)
Visionary — Compound Returns of Systematic Engineering:
- Veridical vs industry: 2.2× faster to production, 52.8 pp better on budget,
4.2× higher risk closure rate
- 5 success factors documented for replication framework
- Year 1 ROI: 3.0×, 3-year NPV: $8.2M, payback: 4.3 months
Technical Delivery:
- veridical-week10.html: 43 KB, 408 lines, dark theme, 0 console errors, 7.8s load
- API: 12 new endpoints (all HTTP 200), 26 regression endpoints (all HTTP 200)
- server.js: 5,967 lines
- 20 HTML dashboards total in report suite