Decision

The call, and the reasoning behind it

A Decision records the choice a meeting landed on, the rationale behind it, and the alternatives the team considered and set aside. Weeks later, when someone asks why you went this way, the answer is already written down. It turns "I think we agreed to..." into a clear record anyone can trust.

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Gate the podcast feature behind lesson 10

DecisionDecided

Theo

Product area: Podcast·Product area
Decided on: Jul 6
Deciders: Theo, Mia

Context

Learners who open the podcast in their first week churn at twice the rate of those who reach it later, because the episodes assume vocabulary they have not learned yet.

How we decided

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Gate the podcast behind lesson 10?Yes: keep first-week learners on the guided pathFirst-week churn halves

From the Jul 6 product sync

Related outcomes

Revise first-run screen with difficulty toggle and clearer progress ring
Action itemIn progressMia
Due date
Jul 11
Product area
Onboarding·Product area
Priority
High
What was committed
Mia will revise the first-run screen so a difficulty toggle appears before the listening sample, and redesign the progress ring on screen 2 so it is obvious what it is counting.
Why
In the design review nobody could say what the progress ring measured, and the difficulty toggle was decided as part of the listening-first onboarding flow that ships this month.
Done when
Difficulty toggle shows before the first listening sample
Progress ring has a label and counts lesson steps
Updated flow is in the design file and signed off by design
From the Jul 8 design review
Action item
Every commitment from a meeting, with an owner, a due date, and the source it came from.
Should absolute beginners get a listening sample in onboarding?
Open questionOpenLin
Priority
Medium
Product area
Onboarding·Product area
The question
The new onboarding opens with a 2-minute listening sample followed by a comprehension check instead of a placement quiz. How should this flow handle learners who start with literally zero vocabulary? Should they even receive a listening sample?
Why it matters
Absolute beginners are the largest signup group. If the first thing they hear is a sample they cannot follow, we risk making them feel lost in the first minute instead of showing them the value of listening-first learning.
Options raised
Skip the sample for self-declared beginners and go straight to first words
Play a slower, ultra-short sample built only from cognates
Keep the sample but frame it as a preview, not a test
From the Jul 3 onboarding design review
Open question
Every unresolved question captured, with a name attached to it
Champion at Northwind Academy leaving before the renewal
RiskMonitoringLin
Likelihood
High
Impact
High
Account
Northwind Academy·Account
Description
Priya Rao, the district admin who championed Saga at Northwind Academy, is leaving in two months with no named successor, and the renewal lands 90 days out.
Risk to mitigation
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Champion Priya leavesWarm intro to her successor
Renewal case walks outBrief the superintendent
From the Jul 3 account review
Risk
Capture a threat to an objective with its likelihood, impact, and mitigation plan.
App Store review rejection blocking the streak repair release
BlockerEscalatedTheo
Blocks
Streak repair release
Product area
Mobile·Product area
Raised
Jul 3
What's blocked
The streak repair release is ready, but Apple rejected the build over the new in-app purchase flow, so learners keep losing streaks to the timezone bug it fixes.
Unblock path
MermaidPreviewSourceCopy
Apple rejected the buildShip price-label fix, resubmit
Release blockedFallback: timezone fix alone
From the Jul 3 engineering standup
Blocker
Name what's stalling the work, who owns it, and what it holds up.

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