# Project Quality Scorecard — Vision 2026 Design Review

**Date:** 2026-03-10
**Project:** LLMHosts.com
**Scored by:** AI Advisory Council (12 advisors)
**Session:** Vision 2026 Full Simulation
**PQS (Design):** 56.5/100
**Hard Gate Status:** 2 FAILURES — Privacy/Security (46, gate ≥65), Distributed Systems (53, gate ≥55)

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## Category Scores

| Category | Weight | Score | Weighted | Hard Gate | Status |
|----------|--------|-------|----------|-----------|--------|
| Inference Engine Quality | 20% | 68/100 | 13.6 | ≥60 | PASS |
| Cross-Platform GPU Support | 10% | 53/100 | 5.3 | N/A | — |
| Developer Experience & Onboarding | 15% | 63/100 | 9.4 | ≥55 | PASS |
| Privacy & Security Architecture | 15% | **46/100** | 7.0 | ≥65 | **FAIL** |
| Business Model & Competitive Position | 15% | 60/100 | 9.0 | N/A | — |
| Distributed Systems & Reliability | 10% | **53/100** | 5.3 | ≥55 | **FAIL** |
| IP Strategy & Legal Soundness | 5% | 42/100 | 2.1 | N/A | — |
| Fine-Tuning Pipeline | 5% | 55/100 | 2.75 | N/A | — |
| Engineering Feasibility | 5% | 43/100 | 2.1 | N/A | — |
| **PQS** | **100%** | | **56.5/100** | | 2 HARD GATE FAILS |

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## Key Findings

### Strengths (Top 5)
1. **Vertical integration vision:** The ambition to own inference + tunnel + marketplace + collective intelligence + fine-tuning is the right long-term strategy. No single competitor covers this stack.
2. **Python control plane quality:** The existing FastAPI proxy, router, vCache, and marketplace are production-grade with 3,181+ tests. This is a strong foundation.
3. **Goal-based onboarding design:** The three-goal wizard (local savings / remote access / earn from GPU) is the clearest UX framing in the developer AI tool space.
4. **PLG go-to-market:** `pip install llmhosts` as the entry point, with progression to Pro/Team/Enterprise, is the correct funnel for this product.
5. **Relay protocol selection:** Noise NK + yamux is the correct cryptographic and multiplexing design. The architecture is sound even if the implementation is incomplete.

### Critical Gaps (Top 5 by Severity)

1. **[GAP-02] Relay Encryption Marketing Misrepresentation — 9/10:** Noise NK is not implemented (M2 is open). Current marketing says "encrypted with Noise NK." This is false and must be corrected immediately.
2. **[GAP-03] Concurrent Inference Architecture — 8/10:** `Mutex<Option<model>>` blocks concurrent requests. Continuous batching is architecturally impossible until this is replaced with an async-safe design.
3. **[GAP-04] GIL Management — 8/10:** Long-running Rust generation calls block the Python GIL, blocking all other FastAPI request processing.
4. **[GAP-01] Privacy Model Design — 7/10:** SHA-256(embedding) provides false privacy assurance; k-anonymity k=100 is insufficient; ε budget lacks sensitivity analysis; gradient leakage in federated LoRA unaddressed.
5. **[GAP-09] BSL Licensing — 8/10:** BSL at this stage will suppress community growth by 60-70% vs. Apache 2.0, and requires legal counsel not yet engaged. Council recommends Apache 2.0 for inference engine at launch.

### Projected Revised PQS (if all conditions met)

| Category | Current | Revised | Change |
|----------|---------|---------|--------|
| Inference Engine | 68 | 75 | +7 |
| Cross-Platform GPU | 53 | 62 | +9 |
| Developer Experience | 63 | 72 | +9 |
| Privacy & Security | 46 | 70 | +24 |
| Business Model | 60 | 66 | +6 |
| Distributed Systems | 53 | 68 | +15 |
| IP Strategy | 42 | 55 | +13 |
| Fine-Tuning | 55 | 65 | +10 |
| Engineering Feasibility | 43 | 50 | +7 |
| **Projected PQS** | **56.5** | **~72** | **+15.5** |

**Projected PQS 72/100 = "Solid — functional but notable gaps"** — This is the realistic ceiling given engineering capacity constraints.
