COPYABLE TEMPLATE

Monthly Build Recap

Connect four weeks of activity into decisions, evidence, unfinished work, and a direction for the next month.

The template

[Month] in [project]

The month in one sentence
[What meaningfully became different]

Shipped
- [Outcome and link]
- [Outcome and link]

Evidence
- [Use, return, revenue, conversation, benchmark, or other signal]

Decisions
- We chose [option] because [evidence].
- We stopped/deferred [work] because [reason].

What failed
[The approach, result, and lesson]

What remains uncertain
[The most important open question]

Next month
[One primary outcome and why it matters]

Do not list every task. A recap explains the shape of the month and preserves decisions that weekly updates could not yet connect.

Use this in practice30 Days of Build in Public