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Engagement · [ Vamos: Audit + Prototype ]

Worldsite: Vamos

An outside audit of Vamos, the collaborative trip planner, and a working prototype of its core loop: the moment a maybe becomes a plan.

Sprint 2 weeks · Per Fictive Kin SOW
Kickoff Jun 29 · Handoff Jul 3
Rev. Jun 30, 2026

Organized into four tabs: Calendar (the schedule), Scope (the four phases and deliverables), Review (the sign-off points), and References (the design gallery).

Jun 29 · KickoffJul 3 · Handoff
01 · Roadmap2 weeks · week-resolution
PhaseWindowDurationDependency
02 · Calendarday-resolution

Vamos is a collaborative trip planner that drifted into feature bloat. The real issue underneath: it cannot tell a wish from a plan. This sprint runs an outside audit, names the missing core loop, and builds a working prototype of the gesture that fixes it: dragging a maybe onto a real time.

OutcomesWHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
  1. A fresh-eyes audit with a cut / keep / add ruling on every feature.
  2. The defined core loop: Ideas as the pile, Plan as the commitment, drag as the move between.
  3. A clickable prototype of the drag-to-schedule gesture, live.
TracksTWO-WEEK SPRINT
Scope · audit + prototype · two tracksPer SOW
Out of scopeSEPARATE / LATER

Review windows. Each phase resolves at a single sign-off, set in 30-minute live sessions, not negotiated against rounds. One direction locks per phase.

The visual references the redesign is built on, hung as a gallery. Each plate is one source and the ruling it settled. The system that came out of them — Concierge Index — sits last.