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UNCLOG — Remove What Slows You Down
U4

Product Admin Dashboard

NOT STARTED Wave 2 · 8 weeks

Executive Summary

Every new product SKU, pricing phase change, and event configuration requires an engineer to manually update Stripe, Salesforce, Sanity, and order-ingestion. Marketing changes things 5 minutes before go-live. A code freeze was attempted a year ago — it lasted 2 weeks.

Without self-service tooling, code freeze is pure policy theater. The Product Admin Dashboard (PAD) is a thin orchestration layer above existing systems — it writes to Salesforce (PricebookEntry), Stripe (Price), Sanity (document), and order-ingestion (config registry). Not a PIM replacement.

Key unlock: BullMQ phase scheduler — marketing schedules price transitions with dates. Scheduler fires at activation time, updates Stripe + Sanity + SF automatically. Zero engineering involvement. PAD “freeze mode” flag transforms policy into a system-enforced guardrail.

What Needs to Happen

3-Phase Build

  1. Phase 1: Product registry + manual publish (Weeks 1-3) — CRUD UI for products/SKUs with Salesforce + Stripe sync. Retool viable for Phase 1 UI ($50/user/month).
  2. Phase 2: Pricing phase scheduler via BullMQ (Weeks 4-6) — Marketing sets price change dates, system executes automatically. No more last-minute engineer involvement.
  3. Phase 3: Order-ingestion config registry (Weeks 7-8) — Product configuration consumed by order pipeline without code deploy.

Why build custom, not buy: Generic PIMs (Akeneo/Pimcore) don’t handle event-date pricing phases, Salesforce PricebookEntry write-back, or Sanity integration.

Claude Code acceleration: Full dashboard app build — CRUD UI, Salesforce/Stripe API integrations, BullMQ scheduler, and config registry. Claude Code can scaffold the entire application. Estimated 8 weeks → 4-5 weeks.

Completion Criteria

  • Marketing can create and publish new SKUs without filing an engineering ticket
  • Pricing phase transitions execute automatically via BullMQ scheduler
  • Salesforce PricebookEntry, Stripe Price, and Sanity document all updated atomically on publish
  • Code freeze holds for a full event cycle with PAD freeze mode enabled
  • Order-ingestion consumes product configuration from registry (no code deploy for new products)
  • 5-10 hours per event cycle of engineering time recovered
  • Audit log tracks all product changes with user attribution

Initiative Attributes

U4 — Product Admin Dashboard
Cost
$90K-$160K build cost (6-8 weeks, 2 engineers) + $275-500/month ongoing
Timeline (Original)
8 weeks (Wave 2)
Timeline (With Claude Code)
4-5 weeks
⚡ ~3 weeks saved — full dashboard app build
Owner
Nick Jensen + Zach Hardesty (integrations review) + Tim Hooker (Salesforce)
Dependencies
Soft: U1 (restructuring provides PM layer to own requirements), D7 (CI protects BullMQ phase scheduler and SF write-back)
Unblocks
U8 (PCR process only works if U4 gives marketing self-service), S3/S4 (need BullMQ phase scheduler to automate pricing transitions)
Revenue at Risk
Operational — 5-10 hours per event cycle of engineering time recovered; prevents cascade failures from last-minute SKU changes
Success Metrics
Marketing creates SKUs without engineering ticket; code freeze holds for a full event cycle

Related Risks

IDRiskSeverityProbabilityMitigation
RF1 Nick Jensen disengagement / departure — Nick is owner CRITICAL MEDIUM Lior 1:1 Week 1 post-UPW. Frame S3 + S5 ownership as growth opportunity. Load relief from H4. If Nick leaves, U2, U4, S3, S5 all at risk — he’s bus factor 1 on TonyRobbins.com.