Roadmap & Milestones¶

Timeline showing the four horizons: Horizon 1 (Years 1-3) UK launch and Tier 1 expansion, Horizon 2 (Years 4-5) fast-follow markets and predictive moderation, Horizon 3 (Years 6-8) decentralisation-aware moderation and trust-as-product, Horizon 4 (Years 9-12) agent-mediated interaction and global scale

Near-term milestones (next 2 quarters)¶

These are the concrete, currently-in-flight items, not horizon-level abstractions:

Milestone	Target	Status
Authentication-hardening branch (`fix/auth-bypass-and-shimmy-image`) merged	Q3 2026	In progress — MySQL test connectivity, `deleted_at` migration, and auth test assertions outstanding
Shimmy Shield Tier 1 (fast-pass classifiers) live in staging	Q3 2026 [TBC]	Depends on the architectural transition described in Shimmy Shield
Seed round close (£1,000,000)	[TBC — insert target close date]	See The Ask
Phase 1 hires complete (Senior Laravel Developer, ML Developer, UK Legal Counsel, part-time UI/UX Designer)	Within 1 quarter of raise close	See hiring roadmap
UK closed beta	[TBC]	Precedes UK-first public launch

Horizon 1 — Years 1–3: UK launch and Tier 1 expansion¶

Aligned to Shimmy Shield's Horizon 1 and Pillar I's Tier 1 market definitions.

Milestone	Target
UK public launch	[TBC]
Shimmy Shield reaches real-time multimodal reasoning (moving off pure regex/keyword moderation)	Within Horizon 1
First Tier 1 international market live (Ireland, Canada, or ANZ — see Pillar I for tier definitions)	Year 2 target
Phase 2 hiring wave triggered (5,000+ users) — Senior Flutter Developer, ML/Distributed Systems Engineers, Infrastructure & Security Engineer	Post-5,000-user threshold, per the hiring roadmap
GoFundMe integration live and generating measurable donation-completion uplift	Within Horizon 1, tracked per Pillar I

Horizon 2 — Years 4–5: Fast-follow markets, predictive moderation¶

Aligned to Shimmy Shield's Horizon 2.

Milestone	Target
Remaining Tier 1/fast-follow Tier 2 markets sequenced in	Per Pillar I's four-tier model
Moderation shifts from reactive to predictive	Per Shimmy Shield Horizon 2
Modular feed architecture opens to configurable/creator-built Shimmies	Per Pillar II: Product
First physical-presence trigger point evaluated (see Pillar IV)	[TBC]

Horizon 3 — Years 6–8: Decentralisation-aware moderation, trust-as-product¶

Aligned to Shimmy Shield's Horizon 3.

Milestone	Target
Moderation architecture adapted for a majority-synthetic-content web	Per Shimmy Shield Horizon 3
Provenance/authenticity-verification workstream converges with the GoFundMe/fundraising trust product line	Explicitly flagged in Shimmy Shield's summary recommendations as a rare case of moderation infrastructure becoming directly monetisable
Tier 3 markets (per Pillar I) evaluated for entry	Ongoing through Horizon 3

Horizon 4 — Years 9–12: Agent-mediated interaction, global scale¶

Aligned to Shimmy Shield's Horizon 4.

Milestone	Target
Moderation unit redefined for agent-mediated interaction	Per Shimmy Shield Horizon 4
Philanthropic infrastructure (Pillar V) operating at global scale, integrated across all live markets	See Pillar V: Philanthropy & Impact
Physical presence and local activation network (Pillar III / Pillar IV) mature across primary markets	See Pillar III: Operations