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Governed prototype hardening

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Governed hardening sprint

A governed hardening sprint is the smallest credible remediation phase after the audit when the system is recoverable and the next slice is narrow enough to bound honestly.

What the sprint is for

Use it to stabilize one bounded risk area instead of promising a vague rescue of the entire platform.

Typical slices include recoverability fixes, architecture cleanup, incident-prone flows, or release-discipline repairs that were explicitly scoped from the audit.

It exists to keep the implementation honest, reviewable, and evidence-backed.

What stays governed

  • Artifact-first workflow and evidence-backed reporting.
  • Manual review before any customer-facing report or estimate is published.
  • Protected or risky actions stay behind explicit approvals.
  • Governed follow-on work starts only after approval and funding gates are satisfied.
  • Handoff-first delivery posture in v1.

Commercial posture

Shipward does not publish unsupported public list prices for follow-on work on the brochure surface.

When a sprint is recommended, the estimate is a separate approval-gated artifact and the funding posture follows the published 50/50 execution rule.