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This week's draft

Week ending · 2026-05-13

MRR up 12% to $48,200; design partner #4 signed, Meridian churned, edit rate down to 14%.

Net +8 customers and a new design partner (Maya / Northwind) against one churn (Sarah / Meridian, kindly). MRR is forty-eight, DAU three-twelve, runway eleven months. The week's most important number is not in Stripe — it is edit rate. Aiko shipped the Friday draft with two-word edits.

Wins

  • Design partner #4 signed (Maya / Northwind Ops). She used the phrase that matters: "I will read it before the Monday standup."
  • Voice memo p95 latency from 30s+ to 11s after GPU batching.
  • DAU crossed 300 on a non-Friday for the first time.
Sources · calendar-2026-05-07-15-00 · slack-2026-05-07-15-45 · linear-2026-05-09-10-13 · slack-2026-05-09-09-30

Lowlights & risks

  • Meridian (Sarah) did not renew — meeting transcript ingest is a real product gap. P0 next week.
  • The "feature vs company" question from Ravi is unresolved; the honest answer is in five more design partners, not a slide.
Sources · gmail-2026-05-08-12-04 · gmail-2026-05-07-10-02 · calendar-2026-05-09-14-00

Asks

Intros to ops-leaning founders running 10–25 person teams. The Maya / Northwind shape is the early-user shape.

Sources · gmail-2026-05-09-17-00

Next week

Ship Zoom + Granola transcript ingest (LH-219) and edit-rate instrumentation (LH-224). Not starting the second artifact kind until both land.

Sources · linear-2026-05-08-13-44 · linear-2026-05-10-10-45

Numbers at a glance

MRR
$48,200+12%
DAU
312+16%
New customers (week)
9
Churn (week)
1
Bank balance
$412,000-6%
Runway
11 mo
The bar moved from "will they use it" to "will they edit less than ten percent of it." Different game now.
Edit rate target · 14%
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