# FieldOps Cloud Commercial Readiness Decision

Date: 2026-06-17

## Decision

NOT READY FOR COMMERCIAL DEPLOYMENT.

FieldOps Cloud is ready for continued local demo and controlled internal testing after the fixes completed in this pass. It is not ready for commercial deployment or public beta because live report provider delivery and hosted worker evidence, live payroll/provider sync, public REST API implementation, live provider activation, live payment capture, hosted infrastructure, signed native app-store submission, hosted-scale load, and real hosted CI/deployment evidence gates are not yet satisfied.

## Reasons

Commercial blockers:

1. Production auth smoke now passes with demo disabled and DB-backed role logins, production workflow smoke covers DB-backed owner workflows, role route matrices, and customer portal placeholder flows, and Gate 3 MySQL tenant-isolation smoke now verifies tenant-scoped reads and guarded cross-tenant writes across high-risk tenant-owned repositories.
2. Gate 22 now verifies API contract truth locally: active API-style routes are documented, JSON `/api/*` boundary errors are covered, and planned public REST routes are confirmed absent. Public REST API endpoints remain planned only and still need implementation plus security tests if they become launch scope.
3. Broader production security remains incomplete around API truthfulness, live provider activation, live payment capture, and owner-provided hosted infrastructure controls.
4. CSV import preview, commit, undo, production upload hardening, MIME/extension checks, browser multipart upload coverage, duplicate-commit blocking, and rollback tests now pass for Gate 4. Gate 9 local large-data performance now passes for 500-row import batches and bounded list reads.
5. Gate 6 integration truth now passes for accounting provider contracts, Google/Outlook sync and webhook verification contracts, and LLM local-only/redaction contracts. Live accounting/calendar/LLM credentials and provider calls remain disabled.
6. Gate 5 billing/payment truth now passes for manual-billing defaults, provider readiness gates, signed webhook verification, and idempotency foundations, but live payment capture and subscription-state mutation remain disabled until provider credentials, price IDs, operator approval, and downstream tests are complete.
7. Tenant isolation has a dedicated MySQL repository smoke, but future CI should keep expanding it alongside browser and hosted-environment coverage.
8. Gate 7 deployment hardening now passes as a code-backed readiness contract with unsafe production blockers, health-page visibility, release evidence variables, and rollback documentation. Actual hosted deployment still requires owner-provided infrastructure values and a real deployment run.
9. Gate 8 accessibility smoke now passes across public, tenant-owner, and platform-admin pages on mobile and desktop. Manual assistive-technology/WCAG review remains recommended before a broad public launch.
10. Gate 9 performance smoke now passes locally for 500-row customer, job, quote, invoice, and team import preview/commit/list/undo flows with 0 failures and 0 warnings. Hosted load testing remains required before public production launch.
11. Gate 10 mobile app readiness smoke now passes for the local PWA/offline technician/Capacitor foundation with 7 passing checks and 0 failures. Signed native builds, store metadata, privacy manifest evidence, signing evidence, and physical-device QA remain blocked until owner evidence exists.
12. Gate 11 release-gate automation now passes locally and adds a GitHub Actions workflow for install, validate, audit, checks, performance smoke, mobile readiness, release report, and MySQL schema/seed import. Gate 12 restores the committed MySQL tenant-isolation smoke and wires it into Composer, the optional local release gate, and CI. Gate 13 adds a committed HTTP route harness for dispatcher, CSRF, API POST, XAMPP base-path, and high-risk route registration contracts. Gate 14 adds production database repositories for global pricing settings and platform tenant admin actions. Gate 15 adds database-backed schedule appointment persistence. Gate 16 adds a committed controller form-flow side-effect harness for selected high-risk POST workflows. Gate 17 adds operational MySQL indexes plus a disposable MySQL volume profile. Gate 18 adds durable import/export validation, commit, undo, and download history. Gate 19 adds bounded import retry-state transitions. Gate 20 adds selected high-risk role browser interaction smoke coverage. Gate 21 adds bounded import payload replay queue/claim/complete/failure coverage. Gate 22 adds API contract truth checks for JSON envelopes, active API-style routes, planned REST route absence, and disabled webhook behavior. Gate 23 adds core reports durability for tenant-backed job, quote, invoice, and technician-workload summaries. Gate 24 adds dashboard durability for tenant-backed job, quote, invoice KPI summaries and removes the fake dashboard revenue trend. Gate 25 adds explicit period-scoped summaries for Reports and Dashboard. Gate 26 adds calculated previous-period trend/comparison text. Gate 27 adds advanced report summaries for productivity, conversion, engineer productivity, customer performance, and profitability readiness. Gate 28 adds tenant-scoped saved report presets. Gate 29 adds the local scheduled report delivery queue foundation. Gate 30 adds material-cost-backed profitability calculations from linked invoice job inventory movements. Gate 31 adds tenant-scoped direct job cost capture for labour, subcontractor, equipment, travel, disposal, and other manual costs. Gate 32 adds contract profitability rollups from maintenance agreements, linked jobs, invoices, billing schedules, material movements, and direct job costs. Gate 33 adds tenant-scoped purchase-order accruals into job and contract profitability reports. Gate 34 adds tenant-scoped supplier invoice matching that replaces matched purchase-order accrual with actual supplier costs. Gate 35 adds tenant-scoped payroll/time-sheet import and approved labour-cost rollups into job and contract profitability. Gate 36 adds DB-backed production workflow browser coverage for portal quote approval, portal invoice payment validation/sandbox recording, portal booking requests, role matrices, and XAMPP portal base-path rendering. Real GitHub Actions run evidence is still required before public launch.

## Positive Results

The local prototype improved and passed several important gates:

- Composer validation passes.
- Composer install passes with a reproducible `composer.lock`.
- Composer audit runs and reports no known vulnerability advisories.
- Existing automated tests pass.
- PHP lint passes.
- MySQL schema and seed import cleanly.
- XAMPP route smoke passes after fixes.
- CSRF rejection passes.
- Quote, invoice, schedule, pricing, export, and browser smoke flows pass.
- CSV formula injection mitigation was added and verified.
- Browser smoke across mobile/tablet/desktop passes on high-risk pages.
- Role/RBAC browser walkthrough passes for Owner, Manager, Supervisor, Team Member, Trainee, read-only Demo User, Platform Admin, and platform support login-as return.
- Production auth smoke passes with demo disabled, invalid login, signup, DB-backed role login, and platform-admin isolation.
- Production workflow smoke passes with demo disabled and DB-backed create/detail/edit persistence for clients, jobs, team members, quotes, invoices, invoice payments, validation failures, schedule booking, import preview/commit/undo, Basic export blocking, tenant-isolation negative checks, DB-backed role route matrices, customer portal quote approval, customer portal invoice payment validation/sandbox recording, customer portal booking requests, platform support login-as return, and platform billing schema coverage.
- MySQL tenant-isolation smoke passes 16 checks against a disposable database imported from `database/schema.sql`.
- App-level session/header hardening passes with CSP, Permissions-Policy, X-Powered-By removal, HttpOnly/SameSite cookies, and HTTPS-production Secure cookie policy.
- Gate 8 accessibility smoke passes with 66 page/viewport checks, 0 failures, and 0 warnings.
- Gate 9 performance smoke passes with 500 rows per import type, 0 failures, 0 warnings, and bounded 200-row list reads.
- Gate 10 mobile readiness smoke passes with PWA/offline/Capacitor foundation checks, 0 failures, and explicit owner/native blockers.
- Gate 11 release-gate runner passes locally with 0 required failures. After Gate 21, browser/MySQL optional checks are skipped unless explicitly enabled, and a committed GitHub Actions workflow exists.
- Gate 13 HTTP route harness passes with 18 checks, 0 failures, and 117 active routes parsed.
- Gate 14 SaaS admin production-durability tests pass for database-backed global pricing settings and platform tenant admin actions.
- Gate 15 schedule appointment durability tests pass for the new appointments table, production repository wiring, customer portal booking persistence, and tenant-scoped reads.
- Gate 16 controller form-flow harness passes with 5 checks and 0 failures for client creation, DB-backed schedule booking, CSRF no-mutation, platform tenant action, and platform action confirmation.
- Gate 17 MySQL volume profile verifies operational indexes and production-like local MySQL query plans for clients, jobs/dispatch, quotes, invoices, appointments, dashboard totals, and cross-tenant exclusion.
- Gate 18 durable import/export persistence verifies tenant-scoped validation reports, import job lifecycle, export jobs, and platform-admin visibility through the existing import/export tables.
- Gate 19 import retry foundation verifies delayed retry queueing, not-before claim protection, attempt counts, retry failure metadata, and tenant-scoped retry lookup.
- Gate 20 high-risk role interaction smoke verifies owner schedule time-slot booking, quote billing-point add/delete UI behavior, supervisor/demo-user forbidden create-route denial, and import validation blocking invalid CSV.
- Gate 21 import payload replay foundation verifies bounded normalized payload storage, delayed replay queue/claim, completion, failure metadata, expiry rejection, invalid-validation rejection, dashboard non-disclosure, and tenant-scoped lookup.
- Gate 22 API contract truth verifies JSON response envelopes, JSON `/api/*` 404/403 boundary errors, API POST CSRF boundary behavior, billing webhook disabled JSON errors, active API-style route registration, planned REST route absence, and documentation truth markers.
- Gate 23 reports durability verifies core report summaries from tenant-backed jobs, quotes, invoices, and team members instead of hard-coded revenue or technician-placeholder values.
- Gate 24 dashboard durability verifies core dashboard KPI summaries from tenant-backed jobs, quotes, and invoices instead of static dashboard placeholders.
- Gate 25 period-scoped summaries verify custom date-range filtering before Reports and Dashboard render date-specific values.
- Gate 26 previous-period trend tests verify calculated period comparisons before Dashboard and Reports render trend text.
- Gate 27 advanced report summary tests verify productivity, first-time-fix proxy, quote conversion, engineer productivity, customer performance, and cost-capture readiness before Reports render those advanced sections.
- Gate 28 saved report preset tests verify tenant-scoped saved report validation, session/database persistence, Reports UI rendering, and create/delete audit events.
- Gate 29 scheduled report delivery foundation tests verify `manage_reports` RBAC, tenant-scoped delivery queue persistence, duplicate prevention, Reports UI rendering, route registration, and queue audit events.
- Gate 30 material-cost-backed profitability tests verify linked invoice/job inventory movements, material cost, captured cost, gross profit, margin, cost coverage, Reports UI rendering, and schema index presence.
- Gate 31 direct job cost capture tests verify job cost validation, tenant-scoped persistence, RBAC, audit logging, job ledger rendering, demo reset coverage, direct cost report rollups, and MySQL lookup indexes.
- Gate 32 contract profitability tests verify agreement/job/invoice/billing schedule/cost rollups and ensure unlinked same-customer invoices are not counted as contract revenue.
- Gate 33 purchase-order accrual tests verify committed/received PO line cost rollups, exclusion of draft/cancelled orders, tenant-scoped repository reads, cross-tenant line isolation, Reports UI rendering, and contract/job-linked accruals.
- Gate 34 supplier-invoice matching tests verify approved/posted supplier invoice actual costs, exclusion of draft invoices, matched purchase-order accrual replacement, tenant-scoped repository reads, cross-tenant line isolation, Reports UI rendering, and contract/job-linked actual supplier costs.
- Gate 35 payroll/time-sheet import tests verify mandatory payroll import fields, row-level validation, tenant-scoped time-sheet repositories, import commit/undo, draft payroll exclusion, approved labour rollups, schema indexes, Reports UI rendering, and demo reset coverage.
- Gate 36 production workflow browser tests verify customer portal quote approval, invoice payment validation/sandbox recording, booking requests, XAMPP portal base-path form rendering, DB-backed role matrices, and support login-as/return.

## Fixes Completed During This Pass

- Fixed `/export-data` route fatal.
- Fixed client/job XAMPP base-path redirects.
- Added CSV formula escaping.
- Added `tools/browser-smoke.cjs`.
- Added `tools/role-walkthrough.cjs`.
- Removed silent `demo_user` promotion to `platform_admin` on `/platform-admin`.
- Added `tools/auth-production-smoke.cjs`.
- Added and expanded `tools/production-workflow-smoke.cjs`.
- Added `tools/mysql-isolation-smoke.php`.
- Completed Gate 5 billing/payment truth with manual-billing defaults, provider readiness gates, database-backed platform billing overrides/events, signed Stripe-style webhook verification, and idempotency tests.
- Completed Gate 6 integration truth with accounting/calendar/LLM readiness snapshots, provider contract coverage, LLM redacted import samples, and platform-admin contract-tested statuses.
- Completed Gate 7 deployment hardening with `DeploymentReadinessService`, `/platform-admin/health` deployment-readiness visibility, release-evidence variables, and rollback runbook.
- Completed Gate 8 accessibility smoke with skip links, main landmarks, control names, field labels, image-alt/duplicate-id checks, and `docs/ACCESSIBILITY_SMOKE_REPORT.md`.
- Completed Gate 9 performance and large-data smoke with `tools/performance-smoke.php`, bounded quote/invoice/team list reads, and faster login-disabled imported team-member records.
- Completed Gate 10 mobile app readiness with `MobileAppReadinessService`, `tools/mobile-readiness.php`, `/platform-admin/mobile-offline` release-gate visibility, and `docs/MOBILE_APP_READINESS_REPORT.md`.
- Completed Gate 11 release-gate automation with `tools/release-gate.php`, Composer `release-gate`, `.github/workflows/fieldops-release-gate.yml`, and `docs/RELEASE_GATE_REPORT.md`.
- Completed Gate 12 MySQL tenant-isolation restore with `tools/mysql-isolation-smoke.php`, Composer `mysql-isolation-smoke`, optional release-gate MySQL execution, CI MySQL smoke wiring, and `docs/MYSQL_TENANT_ISOLATION_SMOKE_REPORT.md`.
- Completed Gate 13 HTTP route harness with `tools/http-route-harness.php`, Composer `http-route-harness`, `composer check` integration, release-gate integration, CI workflow integration, and `docs/HTTP_ROUTE_HARNESS_REPORT.md`.
- Completed Gate 14 SaaS admin production durability with `DatabasePricingSettingsRepository`, `DatabasePlatformTenantRepository`, production wiring in `public/index.php`, and database-backed regression tests for pricing persistence/reset, tenant listing, suspend, plan change, subscription sync, and override metadata.
- Completed Gate 15 schedule appointment durability with `appointments` schema/migration, `AppointmentRepository`, `DatabaseAppointmentRepository`, tenant-aware schedule/portal booking writes, and database-backed regression tests.
- Completed Gate 16 controller form-flow side-effect harness with `tools/form-flow-harness.php`, Composer `form-flow-harness`, `composer check` integration, release-gate integration, CI workflow integration, and `docs/FORM_FLOW_HARNESS_REPORT.md`.
- Completed Gate 17 MySQL volume profiling with operational indexes, `tools/mysql-volume-profile-tool.php`, Composer `mysql-volume-profile`, optional release-gate integration, CI MySQL workflow integration, and `docs/MYSQL_VOLUME_PROFILE_REPORT.md`.
- Completed Gate 18 durable import/export persistence with `ImportExportJobRepository`, production wiring, import validation/job/export history writes, platform-admin durable dashboard reads, import/export indexes, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE18_IMPORT_EXPORT_PERSISTENCE.md`.
- Completed Gate 19 import retry foundation with bounded retry-state methods, tenant-scoped retry lookup, delayed claim protection, attempt tracking, retry failure metadata, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE19_IMPORT_RETRY_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 20 high-risk role interaction smoke with `tools/role-interaction-smoke.cjs`, Composer `role-interaction-smoke`, optional release-gate browser wiring, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE20_ROLE_INTERACTION_SMOKE.md`.
- Completed Gate 21 import payload replay foundation with bounded normalized validation-report payload storage, tenant-scoped replay queue/claim/complete/failure lifecycle, replay expiry/hash/attempt controls, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE21_IMPORT_PAYLOAD_REPLAY.md`.
- Completed Gate 22 API contract truth with JSON API boundary errors, `docs/API_CONTRACTS.md`, `tools/api-contract-harness.php`, Composer/release-gate/CI wiring, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE22_API_CONTRACT_TRUTH.md`.
- Completed Gate 23 reports durability with `ReportSummaryService`, repository-backed `/reports` revenue/workload summaries, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE23_REPORTS_DURABILITY.md`.
- Completed Gate 24 dashboard durability with `DashboardSummaryService`, repository-backed `/dashboard` KPI summaries, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE24_DASHBOARD_DURABILITY.md`.
- Completed Gate 25 period-scoped summaries with `ReportPeriodService`, `/reports` and `/dashboard` period selectors, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE25_PERIOD_SCOPED_SUMMARIES.md`.
- Completed Gate 26 previous-period trends with comparable range calculation, dashboard trend notes, report comparison rows, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE26_PREVIOUS_PERIOD_TRENDS.md`.
- Completed Gate 27 advanced report summaries with productivity/conversion/customer/engineer/cost-capture-readiness calculations, Reports UI cards, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE27_ADVANCED_REPORT_SUMMARIES.md`.
- Completed Gate 28 saved report presets with `SavedReportService`, demo/database repositories, `/reports` preset UI/actions, audit events, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE28_SAVED_REPORT_PRESETS.md`.
- Completed Gate 29 scheduled report delivery foundation with `ReportDeliveryService`, demo/database delivery repositories, `report_delivery_jobs`, `/reports` delivery queue UI/action, audit events, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE29_SCHEDULED_REPORT_DELIVERY_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 30 cost-backed profitability foundation with `ReportProfitabilityService`, Reports material-cost wiring, `idx_inventory_movements_tenant_job_created`, demo cost linkage, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE30_COST_BACKED_PROFITABILITY_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 31 job cost capture foundation with `JobCostService`, `job_cost_entries`, job cost repositories, `POST /jobs/costs`, job detail ledger UI, `job_cost_recorded` audit logging, direct cost report rollups, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE31_JOB_COST_CAPTURE_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 32 contract profitability foundation with `ReportContractProfitabilityService`, maintenance-agreement/billing-schedule report wiring, `/reports` Contract Profitability UI, demo contract linkage, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE32_CONTRACT_PROFITABILITY_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 33 purchase-order accrual foundation with `PurchaseOrderAccrualService`, purchase-order repositories, schema tables/indexes, `/reports` purchase-order cost rendering, demo accrual scenarios, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE33_PURCHASE_ORDER_ACCRUAL_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 34 supplier-invoice matching foundation with `SupplierInvoiceMatchingService`, supplier invoice repositories, schema tables/indexes, `/reports` supplier invoice cost rendering, demo matching/exclusion scenarios, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE34_SUPPLIER_INVOICE_MATCHING_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 35 payroll/time-sheet import foundation with `TimesheetCostService`, time-sheet repositories, import schema/validation, schema table/indexes, `/reports` timesheet labour cost rendering, demo payroll/exclusion scenarios, regression tests, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE35_PAYROLL_TIMESHEET_IMPORT_FOUNDATION.md`.
- Completed Gate 36 production workflow browser smoke with portal quote approval, invoice payment validation/sandbox recording, booking request coverage, XAMPP portal base-path regression coverage, optional release-gate wiring, and `docs/MASTER_PUBLIC_RELEASE_GATE36_PRODUCTION_WORKFLOW_SMOKE.md`.
- Fixed Composer dependency constraints and generated `composer.lock`.

## Readiness Category

- Local demo readiness: Pass with known limitations.
- Controlled internal test readiness: Pass with known limitations.
- Controlled customer beta readiness: Fail.
- Commercial/public production readiness: Fail.

## Exact Next Steps

1. Keep API docs truthful or implement token-authenticated public API routes with tests.
2. Keep live payment capture and live provider activation blocked until real credentials, webhook secrets, encrypted token/key storage, operator approval, and downstream state-mutation tests are complete.
3. Keep the Gate 12 MySQL tenant-isolation smoke, Gate 16 form-flow harness, Gate 17 MySQL volume profile, Gate 18 durable import/export assertions, Gate 19 import retry-state assertions, Gate 20 role interaction smoke, Gate 21 payload replay assertions, Gate 22 API contract assertions, Gate 23 report durability assertions, Gate 24 dashboard durability assertions, Gate 25 period-scoped summary assertions, Gate 26 previous-period trend assertions, Gate 27 advanced report summary assertions, Gate 28 saved report preset assertions, Gate 29 scheduled report delivery foundation assertions, Gate 30 cost-backed profitability assertions, Gate 31 direct job cost capture assertions, Gate 32 contract profitability assertions, Gate 33 purchase-order accrual assertions, Gate 34 supplier-invoice matching assertions, Gate 35 payroll/time-sheet import assertions, and Gate 36 production workflow browser smoke in CI planning, extending them as new tenant-owned tables, API-style routes, high-risk form routes, report modules, dashboard modules, and portal workflows are added.
4. Expand browser interaction checks for additional high-risk non-owner role workflows as each workflow becomes production-durable.
5. Run the committed CI release gate in the real GitHub repository and attach the workflow evidence. Add project-managed browser dependencies before making browser smoke required in CI.
6. Populate the Gate 7 hosted deployment variables and attach real infrastructure evidence before any public launch.
7. Run hosted-scale load testing against the final hosted infrastructure before public launch, building on the local Gate 17 MySQL volume profile.
8. Generate signed native Android/iOS builds and complete app-store metadata, privacy manifest evidence, and physical-device QA before app-store submission.