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.