1. Week 1Done Enough to Demo, Nowhere Near ShippedIn software the last mile is expensive because every corner you cut to reach the demo has to be paid back with interest before anyone can rely on it.
2. Week 2The Last Customer Costs More Than All the Others CombinedInfrastructure is where "last mile" got its name, because connecting the final customer costs as much as every customer that came before them put together.
3. Week 3All But the DissertationIn graduate research the last mile is expensive because the dissertation is the one deliverable nobody else is waiting on yet, so it is the easiest work in the entire degree to keep deferring.
4. Week 4The Bathroom Is the Real MenuIn hospitality the last mile is expensive precisely because a spotless bathroom earns a restaurant zero new customers, which is exactly why it's the easiest budget line to quietly shortchange.
5. Week 5The Filing You Didn't Make Is the Only One That MattersIn legal practice the last mile is expensive because a case can be won on every substantive argument and still be destroyed completely by one missed date on a calendar nobody was watching.
6. Week 6Ship It, Then Pay the Hundred-xIn manufacturing the last mile is expensive because cost of quality is a measured multiplier here, not a metaphor — the same flaw costs roughly a hundred times more once the customer finds it.
7. Week 7The Handover Slide Deck Is Not the HandoverInstitutional handovers make the last mile expensive by relocating it entirely outside anyone's individual work, into the seam between two teams who each, correctly, believe they are done.
8. Week 8The Round You Need Is the Round You Just MissedStartups break the cost-curve version of this thesis entirely, because the finish line for "enough traction to raise" relocates itself exactly as fast as founders close the distance to it.
9. Week 9Ninety-Eight Percent Done Is a Different Building Than One HundredIn construction the last mile is expensive because occupancy is a legal binary, not a percentage — the punch list gates every day of rent or lease income the building isn't yet allowed to earn.
10. Week 10Final Approach Is Five Percent of the Flight and Half the RiskIn aviation the last mile is expensive because final approach and landing occupy a sliver of a flight's duration while accounting for nearly half of all fatal accidents.
11. Week 11The Feature That Finishes Itself Into IrrelevanceOpen-source overbuilding is where this thesis meets its limit — past a point, continued finishing stops costing more and starts actively subtracting value nobody asked to lose.
12. Week 12Which Last Mile Have You Actually HitThe synthesis week's argument is that these eleven domains share a blind spot, not a mechanism — which is why no fixed cost-curve was ever going to be this course's final word.

Five weeks — 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 — have a real, sourced number behind their last-mile claim, so their marker is an actual sparkline of that week's own curve, not a decoration standing in for one. The other seven don't reduce to a number without inventing one, so they get a flat marker instead: the missing curve is the honest answer, not a gap papered over with a fake chart. Hover or focus any week for its one-sentence case.