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title: Smart Escrow Fortnightly Meetings
tags: [Smart Invoice, ' escrow']

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tags: Smart Invoice, escrow
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# Smart Escrow Fortnightly Meetings

## April 27
#### Agenda
- Smart Invoice launch debrief 🚀
    - 134 claps on medium post
    - 97 likes on our first tweet
    - 1 or 2 invoices created on xDAI
    - Highlighted on Bankless!
    - 58 upvotes on product hunt
    - got a bunch of [good feedback](https://hackmd.io/C_N_MBRJR3yr0YQF2NgEig) 
- Smart Escrow progress 🛠️
    - App - @saimano 
    - Contracts - @dan13ram 
- other topics?


#### To dos

- [x] continued engagement w/ tweets - @UABvWnLqS8KD400JWhXxmA (Jaqi)
- [x] review contracts - @spengrah 
    - [review notes](/kiVDVJzRSDKUe1Qz_X7rUA)



## May 11
#### Agenda
- Smart Escrow app updates
- Smart Escrow contract updates


#### To dos
- [ ] App review -
    - Left-hand side (raid info)
        - what do we want to include?
        - should we have *inputs* for a few things (maybe like start/end date)?
    - other thoughts



## May 25
#### Agenda
- Smart Escrow app updates
    - https://smart-escrow-git-develop-manolingam.vercel.app/
- Celeste and lexDAO
- MintGate - agreement and metadata privacy option 
- [ethsign](ethsign.xyz) - DocuSign w/ eth addresses


## June 8
#### Agenda
- Smart Escrow updates: https://hackmd.io/ZKIf5Ix-TfafKcP1x6pgwg


#### notes
- mano: training should be done on rinkeby
- jaqi: fast follow with xDAI so clerics can immediately use what they were trained on
- Bingo: will fully test the app on Rinkby, including all modals 

#### To dos
* Change language of "Service Provider Address" -> "Raid Party Address" (Mano)
* Lock Funds Modal: simplify copy, move fee copy to top, hide detailed explanation of dispute process, link to FAQ (Jaqi + Bingo)
* Post-Dispute Initiation UX: Link to LexDAO Discord + offer email address? (Jaqi + Bingo)


## July 20
#### Agenda
1. Admin: phase 2 and 3 distributions
2. UX research / training updates
3. App dev updates
4. Launch plan

#### notes
:moneybag:  We reached the end of what can be achieved with the 1500 DAI budget UX budget. I’ll claim 150 DAI and trust Bingo to determine fair split of the remainder between himself and Bayley. 

:bulb:  Smart Escrow usability testing and training uncovered significant knowledge gaps among clerics re: how to use Airtable and Gnosis Safe along with Smart Escrow to keep project funds safe. This suggests a broader training is needed to help clerics use our tool to its full potential. 

:books:   Bayley & Bingo are spearheading the creation of this cleric training, which will include further Smart Escrow sessions. Tae is in the loop and in full support of that RIP. Ideal outcome is trialing the training with apprentice clerics during Season2 in Aug and invite any other part-time clerics who B&B haven't had a chance to talk with yet. 

:rocket:  From my perspective, I see no blockers for release of this upgraded version of Smart Escrow. Would love to see our launch plan include release notes and a screen recording showing what's new.

##### launch plan
- don't need to replace the current app; deploy this one as a new `smartescrow` subdomain
- test xdai flow -- @saimano 
- internal announcements
    - discord announcement
    - roundtable [demo](https://hackmd.io/4_XKeMH8RViwhgdwp1RbIw)
- external announcements
    - twitter - @UABvWnLqS8KD400JWhXxmA?
    - newsletter - @spengrah & bau
- handbook updates - bau

#### To dos
- [ ] launch! see above items
- [ ] 

#### Discord announcement
@Raid Guild Member it is time: Smart Escrow is here!

smartescrow.raidguild.org

Smart Escrow is an upgrade to our previous escrow app, using the Smart Invoice infrastructure to bring a number of improvements to our raid payment operations:

- variable sized milestones: align payment milestones more closely to deliverables
- clients can deposit on a per-milestone basis: no more requiring clients to front the entire raid budget
- clients can add additional funds beyond original budget: supports tips and some degree of scope increase
- any address can deposit into a smart escrow: allows multiple client addresses to make deposits
- tokens sent directly to the escrow contract can now be recovered :wink: 
- as before, disputes are adjudicated by LexDAO

## August 3
#### Agenda
1. We launched! Congrats team :raised_hands: 
2. Admin: phase 2 and 3 distributions
    - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDoOmlu27bhaBwj_G7r_ooojH_YeZ4XN7Y6uwbWuBKM/edit#gid=0
4. Training RIP developments?
5. Handbook needs update
6. What's next?

#### notes
- [x] spencer to look into distribution mechanics options
token: 
recipients:
values:



- Designer/UX team to get paid more as part of the Training RIP
- carve out some funds from Training RIP to pay for handbook updates
- What's next?
    - expanding supported networks
        - mainnet
        - rollups?
    - expanding supported currencies
        - subgraph already supports arbitrary tokens
        - need to update app
        - native currency (xDAI or ETH)
    - expanding support for additional resolvers
        - Kleros Court ([now on xdai](https://blog.kleros.io/kleros-is-now-on-xdai-chain/))
            - current smart invoice contracts don't fully support
            - need to support adding evidence
        - Celeste?
    - more general invoice / treasury management / proposal process improvements?
        - help with dungeonmaster?
        - auto-generate pdf invoice?
    - NFTs
        - send to client as an NFT?
        - make case studies easier to showcase?
        - tokenize the invoice itself?
    - DAOhaus boosts
        - Smart Invoice
        - Smart Escrow?
            - maybe combine with smart invoice boost?
        - Auction Queue

## August 17
#### Agenda
1. Training RIP developments?

#### notes