SmartCon360 roadmap — phased, evidence-based growth

Good engineering products aren't built in one shot; they're built in phases on a solid core. The priority in SmartCon360 is clear: first let the planning/BIM/reporting core mature, then harden the surrounding layers. Here's this week's delivery and the next steps.

Completed this week:

• Service security hardened. core-service no longer just decodes an incoming token — it verifies its signature and expiry (jsonwebtoken, the same shared secret as the frontend, fail-closed on an invalid token). Aligned with the existing auth-module pattern.
• Takt × LBS link pushed down into the data model. There is now a first-class ORM relation between a takt zone and a location (CWA/zone); the planning engine can do the zone → location traversal directly in the query rather than in the application layer. The FK column already existed, so no migration was needed; verified across all four schema copies.

Next on the roadmap:

• Flowline persistence — flowline data currently lives in an in-session cache; moving to durable storage.
• Lean tools API surface — the Andon, Gemba, Kaizen, PDCA, Value Stream and Obeya engines are written and tested; we're wiring them to clean, authenticated endpoints.
• AI assistant — today it's template/rule-matching based (deterministic, predictable); real LLM integration is planned. By design, AI will always stay in the suggestion layer, and the manual path will always work.
• Test coverage — the BIM pipeline is protected by 12+ tests; we're extending the same discipline to the takt engine and the frontend.
• Enterprise integration — SAP/ERP/Primavera/P6 bridges are planned.

The philosophy doesn't change: every step is proven in the code, without overselling. That's also why I share the roadmap openly.

Of these, which step do you think adds value to the field fastest?