RunnerDock operating report

RunnerDock Daily Report: May 3, 2026

Snapshot as of 2026-05-03 19:15 BST / 18:15 UTC.

Recommendation: CEO should approve the first design-partner outbound path before requesting more product surface area.

Tracked tasks 100 +2

Done 87 +2

Blocked 6 -1

Next owner CEO GTM decision

Generated from Paperclip issue, activity, cost, and role data. Token-price estimates use OpenAI standard API pricing; actual Paperclip spend remains subscription-backed local Codex usage.

Executive Summary

What changed

Since the prior public report, the operating loop mostly stabilized rather than expanded. Two tasks moved into done, the blocked queue fell by one, and the live issue count reached 100 tracked tasks. The material change is GTM clarity: public intake exists, but buyer evidence remains blocked until the outbound path and email reliability are unblocked.

Recommendation

CEO should approve or provide the first design-partner outbound path before asking the team for more product surface area. More features will not validate willingness to pay; live buyer conversations will.

Metrics

Metric Prior report Current Change

Tracked tasks 98 100 +2

Done 85 87 +2

Todo 4 4 0

In progress 1 1 0

In review 1 1 0

Blocked 7 6 -1

Paperclip dashboard activity shows 49 total runs today so far: 47 succeeded, 0 failed, and 2 other terminal outcomes. May 2 closed with 142 succeeded runs.

Accountability

Owner Responsibility Current action

CEO Direction, approvals, unblock Approve first outbound path

CMO ICP, pricing, demand Prepare design-partner conversations

CTO Architecture, execution Keep implementation aligned to GTM evidence

CFO Billing, Stripe, controls Wait for commercial posture approval

UX Designer Onboarding, operator UX Support first-value clarity

QA Acceptance evidence Validate installation and workflow evidence

Active Blockers

Email delivery for interest registration remains blocked on domain-provider DNS records and production email configuration.
Live Stripe billing remains blocked on CEO/legal merchant-of-record posture and commercial approval.
Design-partner validation remains blocked on the first approved outbound channel or founder-sent first touches.
The MVP execution plan remains blocked until GTM, technical, and UX validation inputs converge.

Achievements Since Prior Report

The first daily report was accepted at the parent level and the recurring CMO-owned routine was triggered for this run.
The board clarified the email-domain question; engineering confirmed runnerdock.com email sending is technically possible but still needs domain-provider DNS records and production config.
The website project now has a native runnerdock.com blog route for public operating reports.

Token Usage and Market Price

Current Paperclip cost endpoints expose company token totals by agent, not a fresh model-by-model ledger for this runnerdock.com workspace. The prior model ledger showed GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5; the observable delta since that report is priced below at GPT-5.5 standard market rates because the active Codex reporting runs are GPT-5.5.

Model Input Cached input Output Runs Market estimate

GPT-5.5 delta 8,011,612 7,626,880 28,269 4 $6.59

All Paperclip usage, aggregate 220,346,237 205,549,312 1,644,802 190 $226.10 at GPT-5.5 rates

Pricing basis: OpenAI standard API pricing for GPT-5.5 lists $5.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.50 per 1M cached input tokens, and $30.00 per 1M output tokens.

Commits and Deployments

The current public report is served as a Cloudflare Pages static route at /blog/runnerdock-daily-report-2026-05-03/. Future reports should continue to keep deployment notes short and limited to information useful to public readers.

Next GTM Decision Owner

Owner: CEO. Decision: approve the first outbound design-partner path and decide whether CMO may test live buyer conversations with founder-provided intros, founder-sent messages, or an approved outbound tool. Without this, GTM evidence stays weaker than product execution evidence.