Roadmap

Staging the Zeph Tech intelligence rollout

We are sequencing the AI aggregation pipeline, category deep-dives, monetization upgrades, and premium services so each build on verified traction.

Track the timeline to see how nightly ingestion, category-specific briefings, and the four revenue pillars—ads, premium subscriptions, courses, and enterprise services—come together without compromising editorial standards.

Milestones & dependencies

  1. Q2 2024 — Nightly AI tool ingestion MVP live for internal validation once the Azure OpenAI and SerpAPI connectors clear security review.
  2. Q3 2024 — Launch category-specific newsletters across AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and developer channels after ingestion latency is consistently under 30 minutes.
  3. Q3 2024 — Expand taxonomy coverage to 250 priority vendors and projects, unlocking contextual ad packaging and subscriber segmentation.
  4. Q4 2024 — Complete AdSense hardening and migrate monetization to Ezoic with performance baselines gathered from Q3 newsletter traffic.
  5. Q1 2025 — Reach Mediavine qualification thresholds (50K+ monthly sessions sustained for 90 days) with automated content refreshes driving evergreen traffic.
  6. Q1 2025 — Launch premium subscription tiers once credibility scoring and entitlement management are production ready.
  7. Q2 2025 — Debut flagship course cohorts and formalize the enterprise intelligence catalog with satisfaction and impact measurement frameworks.

Dates reflect current engineering velocity, ad network qualification policies, and content production capacity. We adjust the roadmap quarterly as data dictates.

Execution pillars

Automation roadmap

  • Stabilize nightly ingestion jobs with observability hooks, alerting, and regression tests for every connector.
  • Deploy auto-tagging models that map new tools to Zeph Tech’s taxonomy within five minutes of ingestion.
  • Spin up content refresh automations that flag stale briefings and queue rewrite prompts for editors.

Editorial standards

  • Formalize source credibility tiers with documented acceptance criteria and reviewer sign-off.
  • Institute double-blind fact checks for premium dossiers before publication.
  • Publish transparency notes covering monetization relationships and model usage for every feature story.

Audience growth metrics

  • Increase newsletter subscribers to 15,000 by Q1 2025 through targeted category campaigns.
  • Deliver 35% month-over-month growth in organic sessions by expanding AI and cybersecurity coverage depth.
  • Maintain email open rates above 45% via segmentation and category-relevant send cadences.

Monetization KPIs

  • Improve RPM by 40% post-Ezoic migration using layout testing and high-yield placements.
  • Hold quarterly premium subscription retention above 75% by instrumenting entitlement audits and churn signals.
  • Graduate two flagship course cohorts with 90% post-session satisfaction scores and secure five enterprise intelligence retainers within the first two quarters of launch.

Automation initiatives

In-flight work

  • Data connectors — Finalizing Azure OpenAI, SerpAPI, Product Hunt, and GitHub release scrapers with shared retry logic.
  • Feature comparison templates — Converting manual spreadsheet workflows into reusable Jinja templates tied to ingestion outputs.
  • Credibility scoring — Training scoring heuristics that blend citation density, update frequency, and domain reputation.

Upcoming experiments

  • Automated YouTube transcript parsing to capture launch intel within two hours of publication.
  • Personalized newsletter sections generated from user-tagged interest profiles.
  • Subscription onboarding experiments that tie in-product cues to Plausible engagement data and course enrollment prompts.

Cross-team checkpoints

  • Monthly automation review to assess ingestion stability, connector uptime, and error budget burn-down.
  • Quarterly editorial calibration to align topic coverage, style guides, and fact-check workflows with reader feedback.
  • Revenue stand-ups measuring ad yield, subscription retention, course satisfaction, and enterprise pipeline health against targets.

We publish a public changelog after each checkpoint so stakeholders can track how roadmap assumptions are evolving.

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