Early Access Designer Designs the early-access program for a product launch — the waitlist → concept → alpha → beta → GA stage ladder, per-stage graduation criteria, cohort gating and invite throttling, the tester feedback loop, and the referral mechanics that fill the next cohort. It sits in the Research phase of the RAMP loop and feeds the RAMP early-access sub-item ( early-access program design sound — stage gating + graduation criteria ). Because the ladder defines what each stage publicly means , it is the upstream of the stage-truth veto: a beta dressed as GA fails at the gate, and the…