Timeline of IMan's ZAO work

Newest first. Lusaka dates. Detail lives in projects/.

September 2026

• 21 Sept: Inbound: nothing new on the desk. Found in ZAO + IMAN that ZOE could not show Zaal the questions IMan relayed through her, so check-ins now tag her and carry the questions (IMan's rule). Checked in 13:05 CAT. Live check: Zaal landed both Stripe links and the Buy Button on 20 Sept evening, checkout is live on /tickets and /donate, Needs Zaal 10 closed; 8 of 8 acts on the site, photos 6 of 8; main 7a655b1, 44 commits #250 to #281; /live still has no player, no stream pin. The 20 Sept call with Danny transcribed from all three tracks and put on the desk: Danny in the ZAO Artizen fund, his stream Wed 7 Oct, a Wave Station daily quest designed, Zaal wants IMan and Danny in a group, and a ZAO Artizen team site after 3 Oct. Afternoon: desk #9 done and closed, the Gmail triage routine live from IMan's account, first run passed; it surfaced the Ellsworth Chamber poster ask, now task 14. Desk site: seven deploy tries, real cause found (Vercel blocks deploys whose commit author is not in the one-seat hobby team), fixed with a git-free deploy script; site current at 15:49 CAT. Call with Zaal 15:30 CAT. DMs read: Stripe $20 test agreed, Discord time set. Cowork bot swept, #1282 run, 0 open PRs. Evening: Chamber poster made; master doc paste refreshed against the live doc (six wrong lines); desk link and DNS ask sent to Zaal. Zaal answered six questions on #11 and asked about Unlock on #10 (answered, not mid-way); second call 22:36 CAT recorded, transcribed, audio sent to him. New: daily points challenge for a week, a ZAOstock Facebook page.

• 20 Sept: Inbound check. Five more relays from Zaal's seat on #8 (19 Sept afternoon) folded in: zpoidh yes (found already merged as #107 on 4 Sept, row 9 closed), master doc edit access (row 11 closed), Gemini key "ask IMan" (row 7 rewritten), "do it now" on the footage and DJ repo, and a new Facebook page-admin ask (task 13). Live check: 4 of 8 acts published, main 50e5e9b, #229 and #242 to #249 merged overnight. Zaal ruled marketing goes to the ZAO Festivals group. ZAOstock Daily v34 with a Sunday block covering the week. Afternoon: the desk site got a page per task (whole-card links, drafts inline, history from every update), a premium restyle, and two fixes; found that iman-desk.vercel.app times out on IMan's ISP because two Vercel addresses are dropped in Lusaka, not a repo problem. IMan on the video ad final cut. Reviewed the Day 263 preview for Zaal: voice fits, links resolve, tickets and /live need fixing first. Call with Zaal and Danny recorded, one of three tracks transcribed. Evening: Zaal posted the Day 263 newsletter preview in ZAO Festivals and asked IMan what he thinks; its stream link goes to /live, which has no player. Asked Zaal through ZOE whether to build one now, Needs Zaal 15. Zaal also opened desk #9, the Gmail triage routine, for IMan to create from his own account.

• 19 Sept: Zaal's seat answered on desk #8 overnight: four rulings (stage manager, stream test 19 to 21 Sept, LyonsDen held, newsletter repo), Steve Peer's bios and images (#232), Heart of Ellsworth partner (#231). Desk rows 2, 3, 4, 8 closed. Replied with the lint failure on #231 and the two cut-off notes. ZOE link live: IMan's Claude posts in ZAAL BOTZ as IMan; ZOE confirmed the desk pointer reached Zaal's inbox. ZAOstock team bot board read and found stale on eight counts. Cowork bot list audited: 38 cards, 12 closed, 11 flagged as Zaal's. Evening: Zaal asked for a dashboard URL; the desk site went up at iman-desk.vercel.app.

• 18 Sept: /live day-of half up as ZAOstock #225; site drift audit found two set times and a closed bounty published on /build, fixed in #226. Stream run sheet rewritten, #227, and the stage manager page, #228: both were cueing five acts, Hurricane and a WaveWarZ block. Zaal merged the checkout wiring (#223) and fixed a prototype-key bug in it (#224). Tracker moved to $75 a Thursday. Evening: radio copy for 19 Sept written; live check bios 6 of 8, photos 4 of 8; desk #6 closed against Zaal's zao-repos; found his bot does not read the desk, told him on #8.

• 17 Sept: Desk rolled to today. Video ad in final cut. Card payments, master doc, wristbands, Freymon.eth and DCoop's article picked up from the overdue five.

• 16 Sept: Round two call transcribed and put on the desk. Issue #7 folded in: poster ruled, routes confirmed, /live shipped, Freymon.eth corrected. Needs Zaal 11 to 9.

• 15 Sept, evening: Round two call with Zaal, 11 minutes, on the stream and the virtual side. Recorded, recovered after a failed download, transcribed 16 Sept.

• 15 Sept: Call with Zaal on the 23 master doc questions, recorded and transcribed; answers on the desk. ZAOstock video ad started. Live check: 2 of 8 acts, build d388b55.

• 14 Sept: Daily v33. Artist Board checked live: 2 of 8 acts published. This desk reorganised.

• 13 Sept: IMan Desk live, Zaal accepted. ZAO Zone audit. ZAOartizen homepage fixed. DCoop and Lyons Den published.

• 12 Sept: Call with Zaal: one desk for IMan work, music pivots to DJing.

• 11 Sept: ZAO DEVZ submitted to Artizen Season 7 ($10,000). FL Studio course built.

• 10 Sept: Jose's two Ops Room fixes live on zaostock.com/ops.

• 9 Sept: Jose tested the live board.

• 8 Sept: New Ops Room live on main, 40 of 42 checks pass.

• 7 Sept: Nine deal memos (#115, vaulted). Asset pack re-cut to nine acts.

• 6 Sept: Newsletter voice guide merged (zaoonparagraph #3).

• 4 Sept: zpoidh leaderboard fix (last push).

• 3 Sept: Artist asset pack. Newsletter voice guide. Ops Room corrections (#102).

• 2 Sept: ZAOstock #98, #100. ZAOstock Daily started.

• 1 Sept: ZAOstock round two, #90 to #93.

August 2026

• 31 Aug: ZAOstock Ops Room built. Online ops co-lead with Thy Revolution. Link Router Gemini fallback.
• 29 Aug: ZAOstock sponsor board, doc 2300.
• 28 Aug: All 40 ZAOstock API routes audited.
• 27 to 28 Aug: Artizen Season 6 (RAPA) blueprint.
• 26 Aug: ZAO Fund creator contact book (ZAOartizen).
• 22 Aug: First zpoidh commits.
• 16 Aug: ZAO Cowork calendar views.
• 9 to 20 Aug: ZAO Link Router built.
• 8 to 9 Aug: LoopHouse CLI (zabal-cli) Week 1 MVP.
• 1 Aug: DEVZ app deep-link fix.

July 2026

• 28 Jul: First ZAOstock commits.
• 25 to 28 Jul: thezao.com UI.
• 27 Jul: ZABAL Gamez Week 5 newsletter catch-up.
• 13 Jul: ZAOartizen started.
• 11 Jul: ZAOresearch first commit.
• 8 Jul: ZAO Poker.
• 7 to 10 Jul: Zlank, IMan version.
• 3 Jul: ZAO Nexus UI.
• 1 to 14 Jul: ZAO Zone.

May to June 2026

• 14 Jun: ZAO dev hub App Store, 4 apps.
• 22 May: First ZAO Cowork PRs (15 merged through 31 Aug).