ShipGates
decision engine · sheet 1 of 1

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You wrote down a deadline. Nobody checked.

Paste the plan you already wrote. Every commitment in it comes back with its deadline and what happens if you miss it.

the source
No account, no email, no card.

Specimen · sample plan, extracted · 8 gates

gate 01Ship the pricing page by 28 Sep 2026. It is basically done.28 Sep · default KILLED
gate 02If atlas has fewer than 10 paying users by 7 Oct 2026, stop working on it.7 Oct · default KILLED
gate 03Email the three people who replied last month by 11 Oct 2026.11 Oct · default KILLED

2 of the 8 were due before today.

For anyone who wrote a deadline down and then kept building.

Every line carrying a promise and a date comes back as a Gate, quoted in your own words. Nothing you paste is published, shown to anyone else, or used to train anything.

Kill criteria patternsfree · no account needed
sec 00what it does

Building is cheap now. Deciding is not. A missed deadline here produces an outcome instead of nothing.

Legend · a gate closes exactly one of two ways

PASSyou decided, and recorded whyFAILyou decided, or the deadline did
sourcea plan, a CLAUDE.md, a launch checklist
found8 to 15 gates, several already overdue
queue3 decisions a day, maximum
defaultruns on the deadline, with or without you
price$0 · no account · no card

Table 1 · what ShipGates does, in full

A ruled go / no-go checklist sheet with dial gauges, one needle past its limit.
Fig. 1Aviation practice. No line closes without a criterion, a limit and a recorded outcome.
sec 01the problem

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.

8 to 15
commitments in a typical source
1
approver in the whole company
0
of them checked by anything today
sec 02the mechanism

Silence is a verdict.

You paste a source. The extraction quotes back every promise it contains, with its date and its default.

001Gate

A promise, its deadline, and the default that runs without you. Quoted from your own source.

002Default

The deadline passes with no decision. The default executes. Nothing passes unremarked, ever.

003Verdict

2 values. PASS or FAIL, with 1 line of reason. The Ledger keeps both permanently.

004Decision Queue

At most 3 gates a day. Only the calls a human can make.

005WIP Brake

Past the open limit, new gates are marked OVER LIMIT. Nothing is blocked. The cost is visible.

A single instrument dial, its needle resting past the limit mark.
sec 03the ledger

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 Oct 2026 (in 2 days). Default: KILLED.

Gate 09PASS

ship the pricing page

3 Oct 2026 · default KILLED · shipped 2 Oct 2026

Gate 11FAIL

10 users by 5 Oct or stop

5 Oct 2026 · default KILLED · closed by silence

Gate 12PASS

rewrite the extractor

7 Oct 2026 · default SHIPPED · held the date

Gate 14OPEN

decide on the mobile app

12 Oct 2026 · default KILLED · (in 2 days)

Gate 17OPEN

second landing test

18 Oct 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.

sec 04the alternatives

Everything else tracks work. None of it closes a decision.

a Notion decision log

It needs the discipline it is supposed to supply. ShipGates enforces the deadline whether you show up or not.

Linear or Todoist

Deleting a task leaves no record behind. A FAIL in the Ledger does.

Beeminder or stickK

They stake money on habits. Nothing is staked here. The consequence is the record.

Motion or Sunsama

Your calendar is not the constraint. A scheduler will happily book time for a dead project.

doing nothing

Free, and the open count keeps rising. This is the real competitor.

sec 05the price

Free. All of it.

Every extraction, readout and Ledger on this site works right now, free.

No account, no card and no email, before the readout or after it.

The Lifetime Pass is not on sale. Nothing here charges you, and nothing renews.

price$0
termyours for good
gatesunlimited
queuedaily, at most 3
ledgerpermanent, always readable
brake3 open gates

Table 2 · 1 plan, no tiers