roadmaps / quarterly / Q3-26
Quarterly roadmap
Beacon — Q3 2026
1Quarter objectives
Take Beacon from validated prototype to a paid, self-serve product ready for the first 20 paying customers — including all required feature sets: subscription billing, team workspaces, and core reporting.
Deliver and demonstrate differentiation from incumbent analytics tools to drive pilot conversion:
- Self-serve onboarding — a new workspace sees its first report within 10 minutes of signup.
- Slack and HubSpot integrations out of the box.
- Weekly digest emails written for operators, not analysts.
- The security checklist bigger customers ask for before they buy: activity logs, single sign-on, and control over who sees what.
- Usage-based pricing with transparent plan limits — no sales call required to upgrade.
Deliver sales enablement artifacts: a demo environment with sample data, case-study drafts from the pilot customers, and a launch video.
Definition of done: monthly demo of stated objectives.
2Objective timeline
An overview of objectives and their target delivery. Specific task lists and deliverables are defined in the monthly roadmaps.
Billing & plansCustomers pay by card, pick a plan, and upgrade or downgrade themselves — revenue comes in with no invoices or sales calls.
Demo · Month 1
Team workspaces & rolesCustomers invite their team, control what each person can do, and download a record of account activity.
Demo · Month 1
Core reportingA dashboard customers can save, share, and export to spreadsheets or PDF — plus the weekly digest email.
Demo · Month 2
IntegrationsAlerts delivered in Slack, customer data synced to HubSpot, and a Zapier connection for the ten most-requested automations.
Demo · Month 3
Self-serve onboardingA guided setup that takes a brand-new customer from signup to their first report in under 10 minutes — with no hand-holding from you.
Demo · Month 3
Sales enablement artifactsDemo environment with sample data, case-study drafts from pilot customers, and the launch video highlighting differentiators.
Deliver · Month 3
3Capacity & resourcing
| Item | Plan |
|---|---|
| Engineering capacity (hours) | 250–350 per month |
| Client-hours overlap | 8AM – 1PM ET |
| Known time off / holidays | Vietnam Independence Day, Aug 31 – Sep 2 |
4Quarter-end decisions
- Review pilot-to-paid conversion and decide final pricing tiers — preferably with customer feedback.
- Decide native mobile app vs. investing further in the responsive web experience, based on usage data.
- Plan the work toward SOC 2 — the security certification larger customers require — and pick a timeline.
- Confirm the product can handle growing usage, and plan capacity ahead of the public launch.
To be reviewed in monthly roadmaps, and re-planned at quarter end.
