Tracks and milestones
A plan is a set of milestones across seven tracks. Each milestone has a reason, steps, an effort, an owner, a priority and dependencies.
Updated 2026-10-13
The operating plan is the part of Pythe you will open most. It lives on the Plan page and its content is stored with the workspace, so your agents and your connected AI tools read the same plan you do.
The seven tracks
| Track | Covers |
|---|---|
| Product | Building, shipping and improving what you sell. |
| Growth | Getting attention and users: channels, content, launches. |
| Revenue | Pricing, sales, conversion and getting paid. |
| Team | Hiring, roles and how work gets shared. |
| Fundraising | Deciding whether to raise, and preparing to. |
| Operations | Process, tooling, finance and legal basics. |
| Customer | Talking to users, discovery, feedback and retention. |
Each stage weights the tracks differently. Idea is mostly Customer work. Early Traction leans on Customer, Revenue and Growth. Scale gives Revenue, Operations, Team and Fundraising equal weight.
What a milestone holds
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Title and track | What the work is and which track it belongs to. |
| Why | Why this matters right now. |
| How (steps) | The concrete steps to finish it. Each step can be ticked off. |
| Effort | Small (under 2 hours), Medium (half a day), Large (multi-day) or Epic (multi-week). |
| Owner | Founder, Co-founder, Advisor, or Needs hire. |
| Priority | Low, medium or high. |
| Dependencies | Other milestones that must finish first. The plan is ordered so dependencies come first. |
| Status | Not started, in progress, blocked or complete. A blocked milestone carries a reason. |
| AI insight and resource link | A short note from Pythe and a link worth reading. |
| Serves your goal | Marked when the milestone directly advances the goal you stated. |
| Due date | Optional. |
How work is ordered
On the timeline view, the open stage’s milestones fall into four buckets.
| Bucket | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Do now | Active and blocked work. Finish these before opening anything new. |
| Up next | The highest-leverage milestones to start once the current ones close. |
| Later | Queued behind the items above. |
| Shipped | Completed this stage, kept for context. |
Ordering uses status first, then priority, then effort, and always places a milestone after the ones it depends on.
Graduation criteria
Each stage also has a short list of graduation criteria that you can tick off, add to and remove. They are what you check before you move on.
Already shipped is already done
If your brief says the MVP is live, a leftover “Ship the MVP” milestone is shown as done and never reaches Today or reads as upcoming.