What’s New at Stepzero
Your account got sturdier, the store finally opened its doors, two new Dashboard cards start grading our own forecasts in public, and we’re taking the same idea to games where order never mattered.
A handful of things changed around here this week, and they don’t have much in common on the surface — an account page, a store shelf, two Dashboard cards, and an early look at where the platform goes next. What ties them together is closer to the point of Stepzero than any one of them looks on its own, so bear with the tour.
Your Account, Rebuilt
Start with the boring one, because it matters most. The account page got rebuilt from the ground up. You can change your username now, and you can change the email on file — though not carelessly: we send a confirmation link to the new address first, so nobody can quietly hijack an account by swapping the email alone. If you’re on a paid plan, there’s a real Plan & Billing section too, with your renewal date visible and a cancel button that actually works, no email to us required.
None of it touches what’s free. Reports, the Dashboard, results, and Oracle have never required an account, and they still don’t.
The Store Opens
On a lighter note, the store opens this weekend. First item on the shelf is the logo decal — three inches, circular, the kind that ends up on a laptop lid or a car window more often than anywhere sensible. A Signal Cap is already in production behind it, but we’re not listing it until there’s an actual sample in hand. We’d rather show up late than promise something we haven’t held yet.
What Pro Actually Buys You
Free stays free — that part was never up for debate. Pro runs $20 a month or $200 a year, aimed at players who already read drought numbers and results closely; it unlocks the two Dashboard cards below, plus higher daily limits on Oracle and the API. Business, at $100 a month or $1,000 a year, is a different audience entirely — people building on top of our data, not playing with it. Worth knowing it exists even if it isn’t the plan you came here for.
One thing Pro does not buy you: better forecasts. It never has. Nothing on Stepzero predicts numbers, paid or free — that’s not a limitation we’re working around, it’s the whole premise.
Two Cards That Grade Us, Not You
Which brings us to the actual news. Both new Dashboard cards ask a question about a jurisdiction as a whole, not one game at a time — and both questions are really the same question aimed at two different targets: did what we already told you turn out to be true?
Jurisdiction Positional Accuracy asks it about position — how often has a forecast landed the exact winning combination, digit by digit, across every game in a jurisdiction. In Florida, that’s 1,136 of 54,880 graded draws, about 2.1%, broken down game by game so you can see exactly where it holds up and where it doesn’t.
Jurisdiction Strong Signals asks it about setup — how often did the winning numbers already show strong signals, things like sum, digit balance, or how long a number had gone missing, before the draw ever happened. In Florida, that’s 1,408 of 54,880 analyzed draws, about 2.6%.
Neither card is a crystal ball, and neither is trying to be. They’re both reports on the past — a number landing once doesn’t make it more likely to land again, and a draw looking well-set-up going in doesn’t mean it was ever going to hit. What they buy you is honesty: a real, running scorecard of how often our own read on the data actually held up, instead of a promise you’d just have to take on faith.
Both cards are live for Florida today. The rest of the map is next, one jurisdiction’s worth of history at a time.
Where We’re Headed: The Jurisdiction Lotto Watchlist
Positional Accuracy and Strong Signals both lean on something pick-digit games have that most lotto games don’t: a fixed order. First digit, second digit, and so on. Powerball, Mega Millions, and Florida Lotto-style games draw a set of numbers instead, and the order they land in doesn’t mean anything — so the same idea needed a genuinely different build, not a find-and-replace of “digit” with “number.”
That build is the Jurisdiction Lotto Watchlist, and as of this weekend it’s live for Florida’s single-pool lotto games. How we actually got there — and a few things we learned along the way that changed our minds about what the numbers were even telling us — is enough of its own story that it gets a full piece next, not a paragraph here.
That’s What’s New
A sturdier account, a store that’s finally open, two cards that hold us accountable instead of the other way around, and a new front already live. Signals, not superstition. Same as always.