Gate 14 · deadline 12 Mar 2026 · default KILLED
You wrote down a deadline. Nobody checked.
ShipGates reads what you already wrote, finds every commitment in it, and closes each one with a recorded verdict.
Building is cheap now. Deciding is not. A missed deadline here produces an outcome instead of nothing.
For the solo builder shipping with AI agents. 5 to 20 repos, 1 approver.
1 extraction is free. No account, no email, no card.
Table 1 · what ShipGates does, in full
Legend · a gate closes exactly one of two ways
A plan, a CLAUDE.md, a launch checklist. Every line carrying a promise and a date comes back as a Gate, quoted in your own words, with the deadline and the Default filled in.
The source is read on the server, kept with the readout, and never shown to anyone else.
Gates pass in silence.
A month of agent output leaves 12 half-built repos and 40 pages of plans.
Every one holds a promise your optimistic past self wrote down. Launch dates. Kill criteria. Revenue gates.
Nobody reads them again. There is 1 approver and no mechanism that forces a verdict.
So projects are not killed. They are abandoned quietly, and the open count only rises. You lose the ability to tell execution from accumulation.
Silence is a verdict.
You paste a source. The extraction quotes back every promise it contains, with its date and its default.
A promise, its deadline, and the default that runs without you. Quoted from your own source.
The deadline passes with no decision. The default executes. Nothing passes unremarked, ever.
2 values. PASS or FAIL, with 1 line of reason. The Ledger keeps both permanently.
At most 3 gates a day. Only the calls a human can make.
Past the open limit, new gates are marked OVER LIMIT. Nothing is blocked. The cost is visible.
The record compounds.
Every gate that closes is written down with its date, its verdict and 1 line of reason.
After a quarter you own a dated, honest account of your own judgement. Close rate included.
Next: Gate 14, 12 Mar 2026 (in 2 days). Default: KILLED.
ship the pricing page
02 Mar 2026 · default KILLED · shipped 01 Mar 2026
10 users by 08 Mar or stop
08 Mar 2026 · default KILLED · closed by silence
rewrite the extractor
09 Mar 2026 · default SHIPPED · held the date
decide on the mobile app
12 Mar 2026 · default KILLED · (in 2 days)
second landing test
18 Mar 2026 · default KILLED · OVER LIMIT
Close rate 62%. 14 of 22 closed by decision.
Example ledger. Yours holds your own words and your own dates.
Everything else tracks work. None of it closes a decision.
It needs the discipline it is supposed to supply. ShipGates enforces the deadline whether you show up or not.
Deleting a task leaves no record behind. A FAIL in the Ledger does.
They stake money on habits. Nothing is staked here. The consequence is the record.
Your calendar is not the constraint. A scheduler will happily book time for a dead project.
Free, and the open count keeps rising. This is the real competitor.
Lifetime Pass. $99.
1 extraction is free. No account, no card and no email before the readout.
1 payment. Nothing renews, nothing expires and no card is kept on file.
Every gate has a deadline. The pass does not.
Card and email on Stripe. The email you pay with is the account.
Table 2 · 1 plan, no tiers