Phase 4 optional ecosystem gate

Public marketplace

Vendor discovery, app-store listings, public partner browsing, and provider-owned workflow surfaces remain closed.

Deferred surfaces

Required gates

Completed gates

Community

closed

Membership

closed

Deferral rule

Partner services must stay reviewed and operationally governed instead of becoming a self-serve marketplace.

Reopen checklist

1Keep provider work behind reviewed partner-service tracks.
2Do not expose provider-owned workflow decisions to tenants or owners.
3Reopen marketplace design only after privacy, billing, and support ownership are explicit.

Back to deferral boundary

Allowed now

Keep knowledge base, training, partner services, migration-pack readiness, and governed deeper intelligence visible as the useful Phase 4 ecosystem layer
Collect future demand signals through existing public-site contact, demo, pricing, and knowledge-base events
Document the deferred community and membership boundary so the roadmap does not imply a launch feature
Keep any future community analysis separate from tenant, owner, and operator workflow permissions

Still closed

Community forum or discussion feed
Membership tiers, subscriptions, or association benefits
Public developer marketplace
Vendor marketplace or partner discovery
Complex credits or commercial add-on engine

Audit rule

If reopened later, community or membership work must prove tenant isolation, explicit permissions, privacy posture, moderation ownership, billing boundaries, bilingual support, and auditability before any implementation starts.

Next controlled step

Do not open community or membership work until the blueprint is intentionally revised; the next roadmap step should return to production hardening, real customer feedback, or a new source-of-truth phase.