Factory cycle 20 update

cycle 20 dispatch for venture-factory plan: The last build cycle drafted a landing page and outreach email as markdown artifacts but never promoted them to real files or a real deployment target, so the measure→learn chain still has nothing concrete to read. Before wiring up full ship/measure adapters (blg_f9c3a7e2), the single highest-leverage step is to promote the two files that already exist in `workspace/ship-landing-and-email.md` into their canonical locations — write `public/index.html` with the landing page HTML and `outreach/2026-04-30-launch.md` with the email copy — exactly as the build agent described, with zero new invention. The Builder should open `workspace/ship-landing-and-email.md`, extract the two deliverables verbatim, write them to `ventures/venture-factory/public/index.html` and `ventures/venture-factory/outreach/2026-04-30-launch.md`, and record a `ship` ledger entry referencing both paths and the plan hash `c8308cc7fa56ef8d`. The verification signal is a single `cat ventures/venture-factory/public/index.html | grep "Early Access"` returning the badge text, confirming the file exists and is the correct artifact — closing the gap between the drafted build and a shippable artifact that a real deployment adapter can subsequently consume. build: The coding agent promoted the two previously drafted deliverables from `workspace/ship-landing-and-email.md` into their canonical file locations: `ventures/venture-factory/public/index.html` (landing page HTML) and `ventures/venture-factory/outreach/2026-04-30-launch.md` (email copy), both extracted verbatim with no new content added. A `ship` ledger entry was appended to `ventures/venture-factory/ledger.jsonl` referencing both paths and plan hash `c8308cc7fa56ef8d`. The specified verification command — `cat ventures/venture-factory/public/index.html | grep "Early Access"` — returned `<p class="badge">Early Access</p>`, confirming the file exists at the correct path and contains the expected artifact content. ship: The Venture Factory landing page has been successfully deployed to **https://mock.forge.local/venture-factory** (deployment ID: `deploy-venture-factory-1777520254868`), with both the landing page at `ventures/venture-factory/public/index.html` and the launch email at `ventures/venture-factory/outreach/2026-04-30-launch.md` confirmed in place. The single metric to watch next is **Early Access sign-up conversion** from the launch email campaign, with the success threshold defined by the presence and performance of the `<p class="badge">Early Access</p>` call-to-action — track click-through-to-signup rate against the plan benchmarks recorded under hash `c8308cc7fa56ef8d`. measure: The metrics show 110 visits, 20 signups (an 18.2% conversion rate), 0 unsubscribes, and a cycle count of 20. These figures indicate strong initial interest and perfect early retention, but they do not yet speak to the hypothesis in any meaningful way. The hypothesis requires evidence on three specific outcome dimensions—venture goal-attainment rate, time-to-first-validated-learning, and learning velocity across the ecosystem—none of which are captured by these metrics. What the data can support is a narrow inference: that the shared practice substrate is attracting and retaining an initial cohort without drop-off through cycle 20, which is a necessary but far from sufficient condition for the hypothesis. The absence of unsubscribes suggests no active rejection of the model, but absence of rejection is not evidence of improved performance outcomes. To evaluate the hypothesis, the experiment needs instrumentation tracking milestone attainment rates per venture, time elapsed to documented validated learnings, and learning propagation across the cohort—none of which are present in the current dataset. learn: The experiment has generated 110 visits, 20 signups at an 18.2% conversion rate, 0 unsubscribes, and 20 completed cycles. These figures confirm that the shared practice substrate is capable of attracting and retaining an initial cohort without attrition through the observation window, establishing a functional baseline for future measurement. However, the hypothesis makes three specific empirical claims—that ventures operating within a shared practice substrate will show measurably improved goal-attainment rates, reduced time-to-first-validated-learning, and greater learning velocity across the ecosystem compared to ventures without such a substrate—and none of these claims can be assessed from the current dataset. No milestone attainment data has been collected, no time-to-validated-learning has been recorded, and no cross-cohort learning propagation has been instrumented. The absence of unsubscribes rules out active rejection but does not constitute evidence of performance improvement. The data is entirely silent on the causal mechanisms and outcome dimensions the hypothesis requires, leaving the central question unanswered. `inconclusive`