# Proposed Roadmap: Three New Phases

This proposal outlines three concrete roadmap phases to guide product evolution beyond the recent Phase 3 work. Each phase focuses on a coherent theme, with suggested starting tasks to make implementation tractable.

## Phase A — Integrations & Extensibility
Goal: Make OrbitOverflow interoperable with other tools and systems so teams can automate handoffs and consolidate work.
- Integrations: Webhooks, Zapier/Make connectors, and a lightweight REST API for reading tasks and posting updates.
- Identity sync: SCIM or CSV import for organisation user provisioning.
- VCS and ticket links: Attach GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket references and auto-link commits to tasks.
- Starter tasks: implement authenticated webhooks, add an API key model, and build a Zapier-compatible webhook action.

## Phase B — Automation & Workflows
Goal: Automate repetitive flows and enable non-developers to build simple automations.
- Automation rules: If/when triggers (task created/status changed/due date), conditions, and actions (assign, add comment, create task, send report).
- Scheduled workflows: complex multi-step scheduled routines with conditional branches and retry handling.
- Templates and approvals: reusable workflow templates and human approval steps.
- Starter tasks: create a rules engine for single-step automations, add a UI for rule creation, and provide a safe test mode.

## Phase C — Insights, Analytics & AI Assistance
Goal: Surface actionable insights and reduce manual work using analytics and AI-powered features.
- Analytics: workload heatmaps, forecasted completion times, bottleneck detection, cross-team dependency impact analysis.
- AI assistance: automated status summaries, suggested task titles, and priority recommendations for backlog grooming.
- Smart reports: scheduled packs with trend analysis, highlights, and suggested actions for recipients.
- Starter tasks: add a usage dashboard, implement task completion trend charts, and prototype an AI summary assistant for a single task stream.

## Implementation Notes
- Each phase begins with a minimal MVP scope that delivers value and can be expanded.
- Prefer feature flags and opt-in trials for new automation and AI features to collect feedback safely.
- Security and privacy: design integrations and AI features with org-level controls and audit trails.

If you'd like, I can convert this into a short public roadmap summary for the website and wire up a small checkbox UI on the home page to mark progress.