Act 3 · Lock
From finding to Thesis.
Your team chose the fix through its own process — prototypes, trade-offs, engineering judgment. That part belongs to you. What Thesis owns is the commitment: locking the decision as a Thesis, with terms, before a line of code is written.
TH-014 · derived from context v1.0 / P2 · solution chosen by Meridian product + eng
Objective
Unblock seat expansion in 50+ seat accounts by shipping scalable roles & an audit trail — admin WAU back to baseline by end of Q3.
Constraints
2 engineers, 6 weeks, no billing changes, no migration downtime.
Exit conditions
Kill if <20% of stalled accounts activate new roles within 30 days of launch.
Success metrics
Admin WAU back to baseline · +15% seat expansion in the stalled cohort · permissions tickets −50%.
Backed by 5 evidence sources · ladders to P2 · locked 2026-07-15
A locked Thesis is a bet with a scoreboard — a measurable objective, honest constraints, and pre-negotiated conditions for walking away. Anything less is an intention. That 72% comes back in Act 5.