R̂ · Decisions · 2026-04-19 · T-24 TO LAUNCH

Decisions dashboard — open now

Four operator decisions block agent-completable work. Each is presented here with full context, options, agent recommendation, and what resolving it unblocks. None of these are 'what should the brand be' — they are all 'which of these coherent options do we ship.' Healthy decision debt structure.

Source: state/operator-questions/2026-04-19-decision-pack.md (137 lines, written post-overnight recovery session ec28419b). Companion: state/operator-questions/2026-04-19-vendor-call-list.md (147 lines, Tier 0-5 vendor directory with verified contact info).

D1 · SKU-5 Art Lock

Heritage Patch

Variant A recommended · needs by T-22 · execution method pending vendor sample

D2 · SKU-2 Decoration

Option C

Nape ê + chest wordmark DTF · needs by T-21 · DTF lead time ~5 days

D3 · Teaser DNS

Subdomain

teaser.revasser.nyc · agent-executable today · needs by T-22

D4 · Vendor Orders

TODAY

LA Apparel OVERDUE · Shirtmax same-day · operator-only phone calls

SKU-5 art lock — Heritage Patch vs ê Wink

BLOCKERNeeds decision by: 2026-04-21 (T-22)

SKU-5 is the capsule's 'quiet heirloom' piece — Bode/Kapital/Visvim register. Overnight sprint committed 3 Heritage Patch variants (A heritage / B botanical / C institutional) in commit 2069f32 and recommended Variant A. But the underlying art-direction question is broader: is the SKU-5 hero a Heritage Patch (fake-archival object) or an ê wink (floating circumflex, minimalist brand mark)? That's the fork.

Options

A · Heritage Patch, Variant ARECOMMENDED

DTF transfer OR woven patch (execution method decision nested below). Warm-cream #B8A894 ground, serif title, 'EST. NEW YORK · MMXXIII', 'À rêvasser' motto, lot/serial footer. Passes Bode-fan trompe-l'œil test.

B · ê Wink (Accent 1)

DTF soft-hand, centered chest ~15cm wide, floating ê circumflex only. Minimalist, brand-mark-forward. Too thin for the capsule's heirloom slot; works better as secondary motif elsewhere.

Inside Option A · Execution method

Operator's 2:55 AM Slack drop flagged NY Custom Labels (same vendor as neck labels) as possibly doing woven patches. A woven patch ships from the same vendor as the neck labels, one artwork handoff, marginal cost ~$25/unit at 20 units, reads as archival object rather than ink on cotton. This is a second-order decision inside Option A — commit to art first, execution method second. NY Custom Labels $1 sample pack arriving Tuesday T-22 resolves this.

Agent recommendation

A (Heritage Patch, Variant A)

Two reasons: (1) the sprint already committed 3 rendered variants + verdict notes, so A is closest to shipping; (2) the trompe-l'œil/fake-archival register is load-bearing for the brand's whole 'archival-adjacent, not archival-replica' thesis per the sprint's closing insight. ê wink has a better home as nape detail on SKU-2 or as capsule-wide secondary accent.

Resolving this unblocks

SKU-5 photography direction (chest-left intimate patch vs centered wink)
Final production-playbook SKU-5 decoration spec (currently UNKNOWN)
PDP-05 hero composite rebuild
SKU-5 primary motif for production tracker

SKU-2 decoration direction — Summer Body Tank

BLOCKERNeeds decision by: 2026-04-22 (T-21)

The Summer Body Tank (BC 3483 blank, Obsidian Pearl ground). Promoted into RC01 per founder call 2026-04-16. Production-playbook flagged SKU-2 decoration as open. Three coherent routes per the voice axiom and canon.

Options

A · Nape only, tonal-on-tonal ê wink

No chest graphic, ê circumflex at nape in tone-on-tone (print ink one step lighter than ground, dE ~2.0). Margiela-quietest register. Too undifferentiated at retail — the Summer Body Tank needs a visible chest anchor or it reads as unbranded blank.

B · Nape ê + side-seam SUMMER totem

ê at nape + vertical SUMMER wordmark down the side seam, Pearl DTF. Bode-adjacent 'garment talks when you lift your arm' register. Side-seam print requires additional vendor registration tolerance, adds a second decoration station, adds cost, risks looking fussy for Summer Body.

C · Nape ê + chest-pocket-zone wordmark hitRECOMMENDED

ê at nape + small Pearl DTF wordmark (~10 cm wide) at chest-pocket-zone (chest-left intimate, Bode-adjacent scale). Shares decoration discipline with Always Tee but at smaller scale and different placement.

Agent recommendation

Option C is the only one that (1) preserves the Always Tee's wordmark grammar at a smaller scale, (2) adds the nape ê wink — a secondary motif that won't compete with the heritage patch on SKU-5, (3) keeps decoration to a single DTF station (one vendor handoff, not two), and (4) reads correctly on body at retail moment without needing the customer to turn around. The tank is the summer piece; it must hold its weight on first glance.

Resolving this unblocks

SKU-2 DTF artwork file prep (chest wordmark + nape ê)
Production-playbook SKU-2 decoration spec
PDP-02 hero composite rebuild (currently showing ambiguous placeholder)

Homepage teaser — DNS approach

WARNNeeds decision by: 2026-04-21 (T-22)

Sprint Phase 5 deferred on 'does revasser.nyc root serve the teaser, or does teaser live on a subdomain until May 13?' DNS state verified this session: Registrar GoDaddy, Nameservers Cloudflare (nikon.ns.cloudflare.com, teagan.ns.cloudflare.com), A records Cloudflare edge, currently serving revasser-edge worker landing. Pages project rc01-teaser exists with only rc01-teaser.pages.dev — no custom domain yet. Because nameservers are Cloudflare-controlled, the agent CAN add a custom domain without operator registrar action.

Options

A · Root takeover

Add revasser.nyc as rc01-teaser Pages custom domain, route teaser at the apex, retire existing revasser-edge landing. Cleanest for launch-day marketing (one URL, one surface). Not for today — recommended for closer to launch. The existing landing is Shopify-integrated; ripping it out three weeks before launch removes a working surface for a teaser that isn't the final product experience.

B · SubdomainRECOMMENDED

Add teaser.revasser.nyc as rc01-teaser Pages custom domain, leave landing at apex. Preserves current commercial infrastructure. Teaser lives at teaser.revasser.nyc through mid-May. Swap to apex on launch day.

C · No custom domain until launch

Teaser stays at rc01-teaser.pages.dev through May 13, swap to revasser.nyc apex on launch morning. Defeats the purpose of a pre-launch teaser — no customer types rc01-teaser.pages.dev.

Agent recommendation

B (subdomain)

(1) Non-destructive — landing stays live, teaser gets its own URL. (2) Agent can execute today via wrangler pages deployment create + CF API custom-domain add, no operator registrar action needed. (3) The apex swap to rc01-teaser on launch morning is a one-command operation we can rehearse this week. (4) A pre-launch teaser needs to be share-able — teaser.revasser.nyc is memorable, rc01-teaser.pages.dev is not.

Resolving this unblocks

Phase 5 homepage teaser build + deploy (~45 minutes once decided)
Share-able pre-launch URL for outreach
Apex-swap rehearsal for launch day

Vendor orders — Shirtmax + LA Apparel + emerging NYC options

BLOCKERNeeds decision by: TODAY for LA Apparel + Shirtmax · Monday for Print Positiv + NY Custom Labels + Noissue

Tier-0 blockers. LA Apparel order for 34008GD (hip-rib) + 3380GD (pre-cropped) was due 2026-04-18, now overdue by 1 day — 4-5 day LA→NYC ground means delivery slips into the press window if not ordered today. Shirtmax NYC confirmation call is same-day possible. Operator dropped large new vendor list at 2:55-3:50 AM EDT covering NYC Garment District + Chinatown + Brooklyn alternatives.

Call list

TODAY · 2026-04-19

LA Apparel (overdue)	Order 34008GD + 3380GD. Ground shipping 4-5 days puts arrival 2026-04-23/24, leaving ~3 weeks for sampling, photo, first production run.
Shirtmax NYC	Verify 6oz boxy tee stock + heritage cream cotton inventory. Local NYC, same-day pickup possible if stock confirmed. All 5 SKUs sit on blanks from Shirtmax or Suneco.

THIS WEEK · by 2026-04-22

DTF Transfers Now	Quote request for SKUs 3, 4, 5 (pending Decision 1) at planned quantities, soft-hand matte film spec.
NY Custom Labels	Confirm woven patch capability (per operator's biggest operational find). Quote 20 units at Heritage Patch artwork. If confirmed, this changes Decision 1 executing method from DTF to woven.
Print Positiv (NYC Garment District)	Sample request for SKU-1 wordmark on AS Colour 5080. Water-based discharge screen print. Register test = does the Bode/Wales-Bonner soft-hand hold up at our budget.
APPRVL NYC	Not for production, but reserve a slot for single-mark chainstitch on one hero piece (photo candy). Megan Mussari's chainstitch on antique 1900s machine is authorial-grade.
Noissue	Sample kraft mailer + tissue + sticker + stamp. Confirm MOQ 250 kraft mailer timeline to T-3.

Agent recommendation

Place LA Apparel order TODAY. Call Shirtmax TODAY. Send Print Positiv + NY Custom Labels quote requests by Monday 2026-04-21.

Do NOT spread vendor calls thin across 20+ shops — rank by RC01-impact and close loops sequentially. The Print Positiv + NY Custom Labels angle is potentially register-changing for the whole capsule (soft-hand discharge print instead of DTF, woven patch instead of DTF heritage). Those two calls are the highest-leverage.

Operator-only action

Agent CANNOT auto-execute these — phone calls and vendor negotiations are operator-only. Agent surfaces the info, flags the risk, waits for operator action.

Resolving this unblocks

All UNKNOWN cells in production-playbook unit-economics table
First-production-run quantity sizing (needs quotes to convert to COGS)
SOU specimen genuine-sale requirement (blanks must arrive in time to decorate and sell one unit before 2026-05-13)

Unblock map — what the agent can do once decisions close

D1 resolved

Re-render SKU-5 hero composite at correct art primitive + update PDP-05 copy + amend production-playbook decoration spec + populate SKU-5 row in runbook per-SKU table

D2 resolved

Prep SKU-2 DTF artwork (chest wordmark + nape ê) + re-render SKU-2 hero + amend playbook spec + update PDP-02 hero composite + populate SKU-2 row in runbook per-SKU table

D3 resolved

Ship Phase 5 homepage teaser (~45 min once DNS decided) + add teaser custom domain via Wrangler Pages + update DNS zone + document apex swap rehearsal for launch day

D4 (as quotes return)

Update production-playbook UNKNOWN cells with Shirtmax + DTF + NY Custom Labels + Print Positiv + Noissue quotes → full unit-economics COGS table → margin calculation → first-production-run quantity sizing

Coherence check

All four decisions align with the canon (Bode/Wales Bonner/Kapital register, 5-SKU axiom, Obsidian Pearl colorway, NYC production preferred). None of them would break the brand to resolve in either direction. The recommendations lean toward: ship non-destructively this week, preserve the existing landing, preserve the existing production pipeline, add new vendors as enhancements not replacements.

Provenance. This dashboard is derived from the 2026-04-19 decision pack at ~/.claude/state/operator-questions/2026-04-19-decision-pack.md and the accompanying vendor call list at ~/.claude/state/operator-questions/2026-04-19-vendor-call-list.md. When decisions close, mark them resolved in the source markdown, regenerate this page. The agent-recommendation reasoning here is not speculative — each is grounded in canon (axioms, production playbook, sprint verdict notes) cited in the source files.

Questions or pushback? Update the decision pack directly. The agent will re-synthesize recommendations on the next sprint tick if canon changes.