Understanding the AI verdict card

The verdict card is the founder's review surface — designed to be read in under a minute.

What's on the card

Verdict card

VerdictRecommend approve

Task completion

9/10

Code quality

8/10

Implements inline email validation and matches the existing form patterns. No security flags. One minor: missing a loading state on submit.

Scores, flags, and a plain-English summary — not a wall of diff.

Approve or request changes

You're making a business decision — “does this solve my problem?” — not a line-by-line code review. Approving auto-releases escrow to the developer's UPI and triggers a clean, squash-merged upstream PR on your repo (you never see the messy intermediate commits). Requesting changes sends the PR back with your notes; a revision before approval costs the developer -20 XP.