Forge: The Furnace

Timeline

1. 1

   Start

   Feature map v1

   Industry research + competitive analysis

2. 2

   1hr

   Four iterations of the plan

   Zeb pushed back three times — each time the frame got sharper

3. 3

   2hr

   Architecture locked

   Event-driven model, north star defined, forge/docs/architecture.md written

4. 4

   2.5hr

   Events table live

   Schema, db:push, seed with 17 realistic events

5. 5

   3hr

   Timeline page

   Chronological event feed at /timeline

6. 6

   3.5hr

   Context Recovery

   Panel on contact detail — last contact, open estimate, memory notes

7. 7

   4hr

   Event write paths

   writeEvent helper + deal/contact/note actions all fire events

8. 8

   4.5hr

   Contractor Inbox

   Dashboard replaced — Needs Action / Waiting / Recent, event-driven

What shipped

• forge/docs/architecture.md — the one-sentence principle written into the repo permanently

• events table — org_id, contact_id, deal_id, type, payload, attention_score, attention_state, created_at, resolved_at

• lib/db/write-event.ts — shared helper, attention scores + states computed on write

• Event Timeline page at /timeline — chronological, day-grouped, attention state dots

• Context Recovery panel on contact detail — last contact, open estimate, memory notes

• Contractor Inbox replacing /dashboard — Needs Action / Waiting / Recent buckets

• EventActions component — Done / Snooze inline actions

• app/api/events/actions.ts — resolveEvent + snoozeEvent server actions

• Event write path: moveDeal fires deal_moved + estimate_sent

• Event write path: createDeal fires contact_added + deal_created

• Event write path: addNote fires memory_captured

• Timeline added to sidebar + mobile nav

• 4 Strikes + 4 Anvils written to forge journal

• seed.ts updated — 17 realistic events across 6 days, dotenv loading fixed