# Launch readiness register

> The free sample is bounded to one selected page and available quota. Paid processing remains closed pending Paddle approval and real payment verification. Historical prices and provider comparisons are dated evidence.

Source baseline: https://github.com/m-amir-gomaa/PDF2Markdown-/blob/e2e4f390cd0397670b56e508e6d99d32c29b219f/docs/LAUNCH.md
Reviewed: 2026-10-18

Updated 15 October 2026. Pageweft is a working, bounded PDF-to-Markdown utility. Commercial demand, representative extraction quality and real payment delivery remain separate evidence. Initial spending and feature scope should stay small until those are measured.

| Milestone | Current evidence | Remaining action / completion evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Functional conversion | Synthetic whole 1,000-page CPU conversion; selected-page real MinerU; public sample/edit/export and ownership checks | Representative technical/scanned PDFs: compare output and manual correction time; no perfect-fidelity claim |
| Owner visibility and safety | Private owner report, admission caps/pause, credit identities, aggregate events, consistent encrypted snapshots; recorded actual Modal billing is retrievable | Verify provider-level out-of-pocket limit in owner dashboard; independently store backup/key; review actual job costs |
| Payments | Transactional grants/refunds/holds, signatures/scope verification and local mocked cases | Actual seller identity approval and processing-pack acceptance; real isolated Paddle checkout/webhooks/refunds and recovery; actual live purchase/settlement/payout |
| Customer readiness | Limits/retention/credit rules visible; billing closed; Amir supplied mo.gomaa.formal@gmail.com for support | Actual seller details and final refund/privacy terms; dependency/model license inventory before paid opening; inbox delivery unverified |
| Discovery | Original public conversion guide, actual downloadable PDF/Markdown/ZIP, canonical pages, robots/sitemap, aggregate source tags | Owner Search Console verification and indexing request; permission-based first-user recruitment and measured purchases/repeat use |
| Viability | Conditional arithmetic and per-attempt cost controls; no invented sales | Measured contribution after fees, failures, support and acquisition; willing returning buyers; recalibrate tariff/caps from evidence |

## Next steps, in order

1. Read [operations](/manuals/pageweft/operations/) and check the actual dashboard. Select a workspace-wide net spending ceiling, recommended **$0 out of pocket during validation** while available credits permit work. Saving this limit is an owner account operation, still unverified; it affects the other work using the same Modal account. Internal admission controls are already independent.
2. Read [payment activation](/manuals/pageweft/payments/). Complete the store's real identity/business questionnaire using truthful details. Paddle is now selected: catalog/runtime/webhook configuration is present, the actual app domain is submitted for review, and the existing verification flow is at personal details. Do not collect money until that decision and the actual payment journey are verified.
3. Support email is confirmed as mo.gomaa.formal@gmail.com. Decide the seller's actual published details/refund policy. Use one product scope and one processor; adding more providers is unnecessary until a specific failure requires an alternative.
4. Run the quality comparison on 10 permission-cleared PDFs containing scanned pages, columns, tables, equations, diacritics/IPA and images. Record source-page ground truth, missing content, correction minutes and each competitor's total price. Existing private books are not public examples; seek rights/permission before publishing excerpts. Decide using measured usefulness, not fabricated accuracy percentages.
5. Ask 10–20 people who already need Markdown to try their own documents. Begin with the remaining bounded sample allowance, not unlimited free full books. [Pricing and discovery](/manuals/pageweft/pricing-history/) contains the script and milestones. Owner decides/executes outreach; no emails or posts were sent by this release.
6. After payments work, target five genuine buyers and three returning for another document/top-up. These are pragmatic decision thresholds, not statistical proof. Record refund/support time and attributable costs. Expand only if customers get a useful export and paid work contributes positively before fixed costs.