Status note (2026-05-08): Several questions are now answered or recontextualised; the list below has not been rewritten. "Who is customer zero?" — answered: Global Music Imports (see
customer-zero-profile.md). "What is the initial ingestion model?" — informed by GMI's import-data shapes but unresolved generally. Remaining questions must be evaluated against../constraints-and-separation.mdbefore any action that touches outreach, public surface, or supplier interaction beyond GMI.
Open Questions
- Who is customer zero?
- What exact normalized fields are mandatory for MVP?
- Which suppliers should be onboarded first?
- What is the initial ingestion model: managed upload, email ingestion, portal upload, or API/file fetch?
- What retailer systems should be supported first?
- How much taxonomy depth is actually needed for MVP?
- Should suppliers pay anything in early stages?
- What level of API capability is needed for the first integration use cases?