First Minute Gaming — Backoffice Delivery Plan
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An eight-month, investor-grade delivery plan for Loan — FMG's incoming full-stack developer — covering every feature in the approved backoffice showcase, plus an AI command layer that lets operators run the platform through natural language, a Risk Management integration bridge to FMG's existing RM platform, and a two-month post-launch hardening + handover phase that closes the year.
This roadmap sequences every feature in the approved FMG backoffice showcase around two strategic investments that set FMG apart from every other operator on the market, then dedicates November and December to stabilization, RM tuning on real production data, the first B2B operator dry-run, and a clean handover into BAU for FY27.
The bet. FMG is not rebuilding a backoffice — FMG is building a backoffice that its operators can talk to. The existing live platform has no dashboard, a broken Reports module, no audit log, no player profiles, no risk engine, and a crippled CMS. Replacing that with a conventional clone would be table stakes. Instead, the plan layers a Claude-powered AI command bar across every module so that operators can issue natural-language demands — "Show me deposits over $5,000 from new players this week," "Void every bet placed in the last hour on Event 24812," "Draft a responsible-gambling report for March" — and receive structured answers, tables, charts, or pre-filled actions back.
The integration. FMG already operates a standalone Risk Management platform. This roadmap explicitly does not rebuild it. Instead, Loan builds an automation bridge that reads risk scores, liability alerts, and velocity signals from the existing RM platform and surfaces them inline across User Management, Bets, Transactions, and — critically — through the AI command bar. The bridge is scoped in May, built progressively from June onward, and lands as a fully complete automation pipeline in September–October 2026. That sequencing is intentional: rushing a risk automation layer is how operators lose money, so the work runs in parallel from day one but the "done" milestone is deliberately placed before go-live, leaving November and December for tuning automation thresholds against real production traffic.
The delivery model. Loan is juggling three concurrent workstreams every month — AI flow, RM bridge, and the module backlog. This is not a sequential waterfall. The AI command bar kicks off in May as the first shipped capability and progresses through conversational → actions → analytics → RM-aware → per-module recipes across the first six months, then gets a hardening + per-prompt-recipe tuning pass in November–December. The RM Automation Bridge scopes in May, breaks ground in June, surfaces inline in July, adds first automation rules in August, and fully delivers in September–October — with November dedicated to threshold tuning on real data and December to an SLA-monitored handover. Module tracks run alongside both strategic workstreams, with gap-first sequencing for broken live modules (Dashboard, Reports, player profiles) front-loaded into months one through three.
Each of these can change the timeline by ±2–4 weeks. Surfaced here rather than buried in footnotes.
Plan assumes a steady ~20 productive dev-hours / week across 35 weeks — Loan is senior full-stack with lead skills, working halftime (0.5 FTE) across 2026. Total budget ≈ 700 h. Ramp-up compressed to half a week given seniority. If Loan can push to 25 h / week, the Phase-2 FY27 backlog (see scope ledger) can be partially pulled forward.
RM bridge design assumes the existing RM platform exposes a REST or webhook interface with player risk scores, liability alerts, and velocity events. If only DB-level or file-drop integration is available, add ~2 weeks to Month 2 for a custom adapter.
AI flow is scoped around Claude via Anthropic API with prompt-level PII redaction and no player PII leaving FMG infrastructure in plain text. If FMG requires a self-hosted / on-prem model, expect +3 weeks of infra work in Month 1.
Front-end player-facing showcase (cashout suite, Bet Builder 2.0, My Bets 2.0, Favoris 2.0, etc.), Affiliate Management payout automation, full multi-language CMS page builder, and any net-new modules requested mid-delivery are explicitly deferred to a FY27 phase-2 window — halftime capacity cannot absorb them without breaking the AI + RM differentiators.
Every deliverable in the eight-month plan belongs to exactly one of these workstreams so that reporting stays simple and dependencies stay visible.
Claude-powered natural-language command bar embedded in the backoffice shell — read, analyze, then act.
Integration layer hooking FMG's existing RM platform into the backoffice workflow. Not a rebuild.
All twenty modules from the approved FMG backoffice showcase, grouped by themed monthly releases.
AI flow kicks off in May as the first shipped capability and runs end-to-end across all eight months. The RM Automation Bridge is scoped in May, builds progressively from June, and lands in full during September–October — the realistic delivery window. November & December are reserved for production-data tuning, B2B operator dry-run, and clean handover into FY27 BAU. Module tracks run in parallel alongside both strategic workstreams.
Focus, deliverables, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and relative workload for Loan. Workload bars are relative to a maximum sustainable single-developer load.
Onboard Loan and immediately light up the AI command bar — it's the first shipped capability. In parallel, scope the RM platform integration and deliver the missing Dashboard.
Second AI release ships while the RM bridge breaks ground — first API calls hitting FMG's existing RM platform. Player profiles and KYC land in parallel.
AI graduates from read-only to write mode. RM surfaces inline in User Management. The broken Reports module and the platform-wide audit log both ship.
AI graduates to analytics mode. RM integration layers on the first automation rules (auto-flag, auto-limit triggers). Payment Methods, Transactions and Bonuses hit showcase parity.
The Risk Management Automation Bridge enters its full delivery window. AI becomes RM-aware. Compliance and operations modules ship in parallel.
RM Automation Bridge closes out with hardening and edge cases. AI gets per-module prompt recipes. Sportsbook, Casino, Affiliates, CMS, and Developer Tools round out feature parity. Feature-complete at end of month — then two months of hardening begin.
First month on live production traffic. RM thresholds get tuned against real deposit, liability and velocity patterns — not synthetic. AI prompt recipes are hardened with real operator logs. Bug burn-down and performance profiling against production load.
The platform meets its first external B2B operator dry-run — the readiness gate for the FMG white-label story. SLA monitoring goes formal. Clean handover into FY27 BAU with operator playbook, runbooks, and prioritised FY27 backlog.
The canonical input to this plan is the approved FMG backoffice showcase. No modules are invented; no modules are dropped silently.
Loan is a senior full-stack with lead skills, but he works halftime across all of 2026. That single constraint is load-bearing for this entire plan: the whole document is a truthful answer to "what can one senior halftime developer ship in eight months without breaking quality on the two things that actually differentiate FMG — the AI command bar and the RM Automation Bridge?"
Halftime math. 0.5 FTE × 35 weeks × ~20 productive hours ≈ ~700 h across the eight-month window. That is the total budget — AI flow, RM bridge, 20 modules, hardening, B2B dry-run, and handover all come out of it. There is no room left over for a player-facing front-end showcase on top.
What BAU still swallows. Ongoing bugfixes, broken-state repairs, new provider integrations, new B2B operator onboarding, QA & support liaison, and pre-match / live historical-data work continue to be handled by the existing BAU team — not by Loan. If any of that lands on Loan's plate mid-delivery, modules at the bottom of the scope ledger move to the FY27 backlog below.
Full and partial cashout on the betslip, live bet detail, and My Bets list. Live quotes, confirm modal, min/max guards, graceful fallback when the market is frozen.
Keep the current builder logic, add curated pre-built combinations surfaced as one-tap widgets on match and league pages — BTTS + Over 2.5, player prop stacks, same-game parlays.
Compact / expanded toggles, sticky pinned markets, market group tabs (Goals / Corners / Cards / Specials), and a "most popular" ribbon that respects operator priority.
Inline cashout, filters (open / settled / cashed-out), one-tap rebet, share-slip-as-image, and per-leg progress indicators for live events.
Quick-stake chips (5 / 10 / 25 / 50 / max), accept-any-odds-change toggle, inline edit of selections, keyboard input on desktop, haptic confirm on mobile.
Each promo gets an explicit opt-in / claim button, a progress bar for wagering requirements, and a clean T&C drawer so players understand exactly what they joined.
Extend the existing Favoris section to cover leagues, teams, and individual markets — with a heart icon on every card. Favourites bubble up into À Venir, the home rail, and the side navigation, giving recurring players a one-tap path to the matches they actually care about.
Prepared for investor review. Canonical scope input: approved FMG Backoffice Showcase. All assumptions are listed explicitly in the Assumptions section; any change to those assumptions will be reflected in a revised version of this document.