Changelog

All notable changes to the Phony Cloud Platform specification.

v2.5 (July 2026)

MAJOR: Pricing revised to the connected-data-source model — tiers $0 / $49 / $199 / $599 / Enterprise from $15K-yr; tables, rows, sync volume, users, and AI agents are never counted
MAJOR: Local-first data plane — sync/anonymization compute runs in customer infrastructure; the cloud is a control plane (orchestration, PII inventory, audit, compliance reports); free tier carries no hosted-infra COGS
NEW: Unlimited AI agents at every tier (agent-era positioning); agent surface (MCP, AGENTS.md, skills) never paywalled
NEW: Compliance artifacts as paid features — PII inventory report (Team+), KVKK/GDPR report pack (Business+)
CHANGED: Revenue model rebuilt — ~$600K ARR now maps to ~314 paid customers at ~$154/mo blended ARPU (was ~530)
CLEANED: Old $0/$29/$79/$199/$500+ sync-job/endpoint-count pricing removed everywhere (product, business, reference, compliance pages); superseded analyses banner-marked as historical

CLEANED: Removed historical decision analysis from tech-stack (535 → 152 lines)
CLEANED: Removed navigation footers from all docs (sidebar handles navigation)
CLEANED: Removed Quick Links and Table of Contents from index (redundant with sidebar)
CLEANED: Simplified business/model.md (564 → 141 lines) - removed redundant ASCII tier boxes
CLEANED: Simplified product/overview.md - condensed Strategic Decision section
FIXED: Corrected "seat expansion" to "tier upgrades" in business model (no per-seat pricing)
MOVED: Changelog to separate page

REORGANIZED: Merged README + 00_OVERVIEW
SPLIT: 11_DEEP_STRATEGY_ANALYSIS → 11_PRICING_ANALYSIS + 12_EXECUTION_ANALYSIS
RENUMBERED: All files now have consistent numbering (01-14)
NEW: Company Formation Strategy (Delaware C-Corp via Stripe Atlas)
MAJOR: Cloud Tech Stack Decision (Nuxt + Go + Rust)
MAJOR: Infrastructure-based pricing model (unlimited generation)
Revenue-Optimized Language Strategy: PHP → Python → TypeScript