Q. The AI agent queue

🐛 Bug reports

Active bugs we're trying to fix.

In progress

• 🟡 Chadwick is reaching out to 100 businesses to help fix the URLs on their websites that are not working (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Chadwick is finding 100 more Denver-area businesses, in Capitol Hill and Uptown, whose websites have broken links, and reaching out to offer help fixing them.

Running in background

• 🟢 Mike morning task run daily 8am

  Mike runs queued tasks every morning. First run today.

• 🟢 Mike hourly work shift hourly

  Mike works through his task list every hour.

• 🟢 Mike daily 6pm report daily 6pm

  Mike posts what he did today to his updates page and sends Dave a SITREP. First run today.

• 🟢 Queue watchdog every 15 min

  Auto-checks queue items and moves them to Done when verified live.

• 🟢 Dating manager daily scan daily 8am

  Hunts speed dating in Colorado and Christian speed dating nationally. First run today.

• 🟢 Morning email triage daily 8am

  Email triage and day-start brief.

• 🔴 Pending-sends auto-processor (killed) Oct 2

  Removed after it double-sent Mercury Cafe. Send button still queues, but nothing auto-sends until dedup is fixed. Mike 18:30 MDT: kill verified complete (processor cron fully absent from schedules, not just disabled; no in-repo callers remain; tugboat-outreach-hourly also disabled). Queue API POST was unauthenticated and has been hardened with x-board-secret. Still needs Dave's call on the dedup rebuild before any auto-sending returns.

Queued

• 🟡 Form submission notifications (Dave's call) Oct 2

  All 8 site forms (interns + 6 lead types) save to the Global Config store, but nothing notifies Dave when someone submits. Mike 14:40 MDT: full audit 35/35 pass live, test data removed. Needs Dave's call on notification design (email? dashboard feed?). Split out of the internships-form bug report.

Done

• 🟢 Research page: all books and papers (Dave's call) Oct 2

  /research/ is now one hub linking every published book and paper: Your First Thousand Streams, Your First $20, A Few Thoughts, the Short Bus kids book, plus the notes/papers section (The People to Follow). Verified live.

• 🟢 Livestream "Recent scenes" grid (Dave's call) Oct 3

  4x2 grid of scene snapshots under the fineprint on /livestream/, two moments per channel with timestamps; clicking one jumps the TV to that channel.

• 🟡 Livestream copy rewrite (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Dropped the "pretend / nobody is being watched" winks; copy now reads like a normal livestream page.

• 🟢 Livestream 8 unique scene images (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Replacing the duplicated cam crops with 8 distinct generated scene stills, one per recent scene.

• 🟢 Livestream nav legibility fix (Dave's call) Oct 3

  Nav text was dark-on-dark and nearly invisible on /livestream/; added a dark nav bar treatment (brand, links, dropdown, mobile menu) matching the page.

• 🟢 /partners/ follower + stream counts (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Added follower counts and streaming numbers to both partner briefs. Verified live.

• 🟢 /partners/ photos + links (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Added portrait photos and official/article links to both partner briefs. Verified live.

• 🟢 /partners/ private briefs page (Dave's call) Oct 3

  Executive summaries of the two top outreach drafts (Rateliff, Holcomb). Noindex, not linked, for Dave's eyes only.

• 🟢 Partners last-contacted list on the ONE dashboard (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Full partners list with last-contacted dates in the Partnerships section, modeled on the friendships tracker, so Dave can see who he hasn't talked to in a while and connect like a good salesperson. Verified live.

• 🟢 New nav rolled out sitewide (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Artists dropdown, Live Feed, Dashboard, Free Audit now on all 69 standard pages (was 18).

• 🟢 Studio Radio + Jenny's station (Dave's call) Oct 2

  /radio/ plays the whole Studio catalog back to back on a vintage 3D tube radio (Dave picked the amber-dial one). /radio/jenny/ does the same for DJ Jenny J's SoundCloud mixes. Template supports more artist stations.

• 🟢 Dave story block removed from homepage (Dave's call) Oct 2

  The "From cattle farm to Silicon Valley" block is off the homepage, saved to backup/dave-block.html.

• 🟢 ONE. logo + Powered by ONE. footer (Dave's call) Oct 2

  ONE. (caps + period) is the logo: homepage and /build/ project cards now read ONE. Every site footer carries "Powered by ONE." linking to /onesoftware/.

• 🟢 Live page proper footer (Dave's call) Oct 2

  /live/ now carries the full site footer. The swept-by line keeps the Dashboard mention as "You can also check out the 📊 Dashboard". Dating is filtered out of the board in the renderer itself, so it can never reappear.

• 🟢 Zapapaya breadcrumbs + photo (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Breadcrumbs (The Studio / Data / Zapapaya) and the circular gold-ring artist photo next to the title, matching the Party Pupils style.

• 🟢 Yellow number badge on /q/ (Dave's call) Oct 2

  In-progress items on the /q/ page get a yellow circle around their number. Rendered in que/render-queue-simple.py so it sticks.

• 🟢 Ode to Joy added to MusicBot (Dave's call) Oct 2

  The 3rd song Dave approved Oct 1. Standard C-major theme, all white keys, quarters and halves only, Bernstein/Vienna Philharmonic video. Experiments card updated to 3 songs.

• 🟢 Dating fully off the Abfahrt board (Dave's call) Oct 2

  The janitor sweep was re-adding the dating scan from the previous file. upcoming.json cleaned again and the sweep cron now explicitly drops dating-manager-daily-scan every run. No personal-life jobs on the board.

• 🟢 Ray the janitor on /que/ (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Tiny pixelated black-and-white Ray the janitor, fixed in the bottom-right corner of /que/. Verified live.

• 🟢 pending-sends POST auth hardening (Mike's hourly shift) Oct 2

  While auditing the killed auto-processor, found the queue API accepted POST with no x-board-secret (GET/DELETE were guarded, POST was not). Hardened POST to require the secret; verified live that unauthenticated POST now returns 401. Auto-send still off; dedup rebuild still needs Dave's call.

• 🟢 Simplify Party Pupils hero (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Decluttered the top: removed the redundant Back to the Studio bar and the Data Science presents line. Breadcrumbs stay, then eyebrow, avatar + title, and the intro copy.

• 🟢 Homepage major/minor projects (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Tech and other projects section now has 4 tall major-project cards (Lemonade Stand, ONE, Tugboat, Short Bus, build-page style) plus 6 minor-project tool boxes (Jen AI, MusicBot, Equalizer, BPM Tapper, Stream Dream Crusher, Be Happy).

• 🟢 Build page proper footer (Dave's call) Oct 2

  /build/ now carries the full site footer (was a one-liner).

• 🟢 Abfahrt person icons, dating removed (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Each departure row shows the owner’s icon (Old Ray, Mike, tugboat/all-hands emoji). Dating scan removed from the board and the Old Ray sweep cron.

• 🟢 Abfahrt departures board + footer live links (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Big green pulsing light by the hero, Up next is now a German-style Abfahrt departures board with live countdowns and ON TIME / BOARDING / NOW status. Footers: 📊 Dashboard plus a glowing green Live Feed link.

• 🟢 Party Pupils page polish (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Avatar in the hero, TheStudio.io Data Science presents line, and a Back to the Studio breadcrumb at top.

• 🟢 Latest audits row on homepage (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Our latest audits, one line with overlapping avatars plus fading gray queue circles, right under the homepage audit box.

• 🟢 Nav CTA is now Free Audit (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Top-right button on 69 pages changed from Get Involved to Free Audit, linking to /audit/. Join link added to 73 footers.

• 🟢 /lemon/ book page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  The Million Dollar Lemonade Stand as a scroll-the-whole-page storybook like /shortbus/, no preview video at top. /build/ links: Lemonade Stand → /lemon/, Tugboat → tugboat.io, ONE → /one/, Short Bus → /shortbus/.

• 🟢 Austin 101 city guide (Dave's call) Oct 2

  New Austin city guide covering music and comedy. Nashville guide updated with comedy too. /cities/ lists both.

• 🟢 Project 21: /cities/ page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  New city guides page, first city links to the Nashville 101 guide. Plus /build/ tall image boxes restored.

• 🟢 ONE $1,000 page redesign (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Project 18: restyle the $1,000 landing page like Kimi's product page, lots of feature boxes, world's best AI agent operating system.

• 🟢 Task 17.1: Homepage hero links to audit page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Hero buttons: Listen to the Music + Free Social Media Audit (/audit/); Work with us becomes a plain text link underneath.

• 🟢 Free audit box on homepage top (Dave's call) Oct 2

  The /audit/ box now sits at the very top of the homepage header; World's friendliest music community moves down below it; the Free Social Media Audit button removed since the box is right there.

• 🟢 Weekly events on city pages (Dave's call) Oct 2

  This week music + comedy sections at the top of /austin-101/ and /nashville-101/; refreshes via query every Sunday at 3:00 AM.

• 🟢 Task 17: Free social media audit page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  New /audit/ page: huge text entry for Instagram/Spotify links, free audit within the hour, big stats, links to the 4 previous audits.

• 🟢 Task 14: Artist images on homepage data buttons (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Add small artist images to the four data buttons on the homepage, same as the /data/ page pills.

• 🟢 Update from Mike section (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Mike's take on organizing the builds plus next week's push order, under his daily tasks.

• 🟢 Task 8: Redo /build/ page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Super simple: "We love to build." up top in the typical CSS, a portrait image that is basically a screenshot of the ONE page, and copy about building an agent manager (Mike). Verified live.

• 🟢 Build page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  New internal /build/ page with all projects in team-card format, linked from the Team sidebar group. Verified live.

• 🟢 All-hands meeting page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  New /allhands/ page publishing the mock all-hands meeting, with character icons. Verified live.

• 🟢 ONE queue type visibility fix (Dave's call, important) Oct 2

  Fixed per Dave's static-page call: new que/render-queue.py renders the /one/ queue section from que/queue.json (single source) with color-coded type badges (Bug, Deploy, Fix, Build, Research, Task, Content), fully static HTML, no JS. Locked writer que/queue-write.py remains the only mutation path; re-run the renderer after each queue mutation and before deploy. Mike 16:40 MDT: verified live on /one/: In progress mirrors queue.json with badges.

• 🟢 Sally Coming Soon badge + upcoming post (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Yellow Coming Soon badge on Sally's team card linking to /sally/#updates, with the next post visible there. Verified live.

• 🟢 Dinesh recent analyses (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Recent analysis section on Dinesh's page linking the four latest: ActualOz, Zapapaya, SonReal, HOME. Verified live.

• 🟢 ActualOz dashboard research sync (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Synced with Dave's verified research and verified live: Spotify 32 monthly listeners, new YouTube card (16 subs, 74 videos, since May 2020), SoundCloud 404 noted, gaps stated plainly in sources.

• 🟢 ActualOz artist analysis (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Data Science report on artist ActualOz (OZ, Colorado): key metrics, top tracks, Spotify/Instagram/TikTok/SoundCloud breakdown, audience funnel, timeline. Verified live on /data/.

• 🟢 Escalation policy section (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Green light / red light rules for Mike on /one/, next to the Transition to Mike area. Verified live.

• 🟢 Site-wide form audit (Dave's call) Oct 2

  8 own-site forms found, all verified wired and live: internship signup (/interns/ -> /api/apply) plus seven reservation modals posting to /api/lead ($99 book-a-call Marketing Call, Jen AI $99, jen-landing, One Software, AI to Real $399, Website in a Box, Spotify Canvas Pack). Endpoints deployed, validation correct (400s, zero store writes on bad input). Mike 15:28 MDT: all forms save silently to the mike-board store with NO notification to Dave (same gap as this morning). Needs his call: notification design, and who sends the promised "$99 payment link + scheduling link" email within a day. Full report: workspace/form-audit-2026-10-02.md.

• 🟢 Get /one4/ working (Dave's call) Oct 2

  The /one4/ page (exact 2:30 AM ONE dashboard build) is LIVE. Mike 15:25 MDT: verified live: 200 OK, byte-identical to the repo build, full dashboard content (280KB). The deploy block was stale (today's CLI deploys all worked) and the unblock-watch cron it referenced does not exist. Old data-check "HAPPENING NOW" never matched this frozen 2:30 AM build; check corrected to the page itself. Separate domain idea (one4thestudio.io) is its own item, blocked on Dave's call.

• 🟢 Denver 200 business discovery (Dave's call) Oct 2

  100 DU-area businesses found, all verified open with official websites (60 unique categories). Big document: /one/batch3/. Mike 13:52 MDT: verified 100/100 rows complete, 60 categories, zero missing fields, all TSV statuses VERIFIED.

• 🟢 Tugboat batch 3: DU area audit complete (Dave's call) Oct 2

  100 DU-area businesses audited. 61 broken links across 9 businesses. Standout: Action Computers has 53 dead links (nav, footer, store all 404). 8 others need browser verification (403/406 may be bot-blocking).

• 🟢 Denver 200 broken-link crawl (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Crawled the first 50 Denver 200 business sites for visitor-visible broken links. Mike 12:40 MDT: 3 dead homepages (Pinks Denver 404, Chaka's Mexican Restaurant 404, Abracadabra Books 502), 3 confirmed broken nav links (Thai Pot Cafe /about 404, Sojourners email-protection 404, Just Kool Jamaican Kitchen malformed \catering redirect loop), 26 clean, 17 unverifiable from sandbox (bot-blocks/proxy). Top outreach targets: Pinks Denver, Chaka's, Abracadabra. Full report: workspace/denver200/broken-links-2026-10-02.md.

• 🟢 Fix Send button on One dashboard (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Clicking Send on a Tugboat lead should fire the email and record it as sent. Previously the button did nothing when clicked. Mike 09:35 MDT: root cause fixed and verified live: renderCraigeLeads() renders a gold Send button per lead carrying data-gmail-send (Gmail compose URL) and data-lead-name, feeding the existing confirm modal. 12/12 buttons render; decoded URL has view=cm&fs=1&to&su&body. Nothing auto-sends, Dave confirms in the modal first (dedup still pending per his call).

• 🟢 Move /practices/ to /research/, organize by people to follow (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Restructured the AI agent business research into follow-tiers (follow, steal playbooks, admire, verify), moved under /research/practices/, /practices and /practices/ 308-redirect. Mike 09:35 MDT: verified live: /research/practices/ 200 with all tiers, /practices/ 308s to the new URL. Shipped via git-free CLI deploy (git-attributed deploys blocked by Vercel commit-author permission).

• 🟢 AI agent business practices research (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Research doc on real people running revenue businesses on Claude, Muse, and agents, highest value first.

• 🟢 Content pipeline: 4 stages on the Content page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Content page now shows the video pipeline as 4 clear stages: Upload, Editing, On Buffer, Live. New "51 active users" video is in Editing. Verified live.

• 🟢 Short Bus trailer ideas page (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Storyboard panels for trailer beats, centerpiece is the Biscuit Takes the Wheel slow-mo set piece. Live at /shortbusideas/ (one-word URL per Dave's rule).

• 🟢 "Biscuit Take the Wheel" song draft (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Draft lyrics written (your_files/biscuit-take-the-wheel-lyrics.md), ready for Dave's review before Suno pipeline.

• 🟢 Denver 100 business audit (Dave's call) Oct 2

  98 small Denver businesses audited by category (2 removed as permanently closed). 2 major issues, 22 notable. Top target: Work and Class.

• 🟢 Denver 100 closed-business verification (Dave's call) Oct 2

  All 100 checked against Google Maps. Removed 4Play Kitchen and Biker Jim's (both permanently closed). 98 confirmed open.

• 🟢 Short Bus desktop trailer true-16:9 recut (Dave's call, priority one) Oct 2

  Blur-fill version read as "not 16:9". Recut the landscape trailer as genuine 1920x1080 (center 16:9 crop, faces protected, title cards readable). Verified live: video is 1920x1080.

• 🟢 Happening now queue treatment (Dave's call) Oct 2

  In progress items on /one/ now show as "Happening now" with pulsing green dot and highlighted card, so background work is unmissable.

• 🟢 Short Bus two-trailer deploy (Dave's call) Oct 2

  Portrait trailer for phones plus a new 16:9 landscape cut for desktop (blur-fill sides, nothing cropped), served per screen via media queries.

• 🟢 Happiness tab motivational poster image Oct 2

  Make the Happiness tab of /one/ have an image like a motivational poster (Dave's call).

• 🟢 Sidebar company emojis (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Dave's Building sidebar rows now show the company emojis (same set as the company dashboards); drag handles stay to the left of the emojis.

• 🟢 10 minute hello world test task Oct 1

  Test task so Dave can watch the queue section update live on /one/. Verified working.

• 🟢 Add 3D studio image to the "bigger picture" block on /dlaney/ Oct 1

  Put the 3D studio image on the "I'm an artist at The Studio." block (Dave's call, watching live).

• Rename /master/ to /one/ and rebuild as the hybrid ops hub (Dave's call). /one/ #1 in line Oct 1

  Rename /master/ to /one/ and rebuild as the hybrid ops hub (Dave's call). /one/ becomes one of the most important sites: Dave's categories plus Mike's operations, all in one place, with click-through to Mike at /team/mike/. Canonical /one/ (lowercase), /ONE/ and /master/ 308-redirect to it. Keep noindex (internal ops).

• /one/ dashboard redesign: sidebar filter mode (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Clicking a sidebar item now filters the main content to show ONLY that section (not just scroll). "Show all" pill and ONE. logo exit filter mode. Active highlight tracks the filter.

• /one/ dashboard redesign: Friendships view rebuild (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Reach-out suggestions (4, oldest contacts first), upcoming birthdays (next 21 days) at top, recently contacted below. Fixed HTML entity encoding and date parsing bugs.

• /one/ dashboard redesign: company dashboards (Dave's call) Oct 1

  The 5 companies (The Studio, Dlaney, Short Bus, Craige Consulting, Strive Capital) each get a dashboard view on /one/: status, how it is going, this week focus, full page link.

• /one/ dashboard redesign: team dashboards (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Mike (9 fronts + live queue + weekly blurb), Intern one (2-week plan), Dating coach (October plan), Fitness coach (rhythm) each get a dashboard when clicked.

• /one/ dashboard redesign: Queue view (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Numbered priority rows, per-item emojis, status dots (green/yellow/red), ETAs, live 30s refresh. Tiny QUE button under the ONE. logo for quick access.

• /one/ dashboard redesign: Shipping feed inline (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Clicking Shipping feed shows the live feed right on /one/ instead of navigating away. Fetches from /dashboard/.

• /one/ dashboard redesign: Mike blurb on Build card (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Mike's photo + "Hey Dave, here's what I'm pushing on this week" with top 3 live queue items, light yellow background.

• /one/ dashboard redesign: sidebar reorganization (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Dave's Life (Happiness, Dating, Friendships, Fitness, Dating coach, Fitness coach), Dave's Building (5 companies), Team (Mike, Intern one), Quick Links.

• Chadwick page hero (Dave's call) Oct 1

  zoom out the tight face close-up to a baseball-card-style tall portrait (2:3), him waving, face unchanged. ChatGPT 4-block of four waving variations generating in the browser; Dave picks per the image rhythm, then a high-res final goes on /chadwick/.

• Biscuit character portrait (Dave's call) Oct 1

  he picked the top-right head-tilt pose from the 4-block; full high-res single portrait DONE (your_files/biscuit-final-portrait.png), shown to Dave. Awaiting: Dave helps save it to the desktop folder, then it goes on the team page (replacing the B&W sketch).

• Vercel Pro paid (Dave's call, verified) Oct 1

  $21.03 via Link (Mastercard), receipt to dave@tugboat.io. Pro account paid up, renewal item closed.

• Mateo card (Dave's call) Oct 1

  "Kitchen helper · Accordion" -> "Kitchen helper" on /team/ and /team2/ (alt text updated too). Deployed (the-studio-fiolcukfa), verified live: zero accordion references on the team page.

• Homepage music headline (Dave's call) Oct 1

  "We strive to always make great music." -> "We strive to make great music." then added a line break after "make" so "great music." sits on its own line (his screenshot). Deployed (the-studio-iy2hqjnai), verified live.

• Team page header copy (Dave's call) Oct 1

  h1 "Team." -> "Our Team.", lede -> "The Studio has a lively bunch of characters in it. Meet them all." Applied to /team/ (and lede on /team2/). Deployed (the-studio-k1t3majw8), verified live.

• Team page adopts team2 layout (Dave's call Oct 1

  "The team two page looks excellent. Let's go with that layout"): /team/ now uses the 3:4 tall portrait trading-card frames from /team2/, same 14 cards in the same order (Sally, Dlaney, Chadwick, Haddie, Marty, rest). /team2/ kept as-is. Deployed (the-studio-mkne54s7t), verified live.

• Team page reorder (Dave's call) Oct 1

  Sally first, Dlaney second, Chadwick third, Haddie fourth, Marty fifth, rest unchanged. Applied to both /team/ and /team2/. Deployed (the-studio-3k2em341k), verified live.

• Team page updates (Dave's calls) Oct 1

  homepage team teaser image cut to 50% (max-width 260px); "Dave Dlaney" card renamed to "Dlaney" (D-L-A-N-E-Y), duplicate "Dlaney" placeholder card deleted (14 cards now); Tex's portrait added from Dave's file (shortbus/assets/portraits/tex.jpg, 1024px). Applied to both /team/ and /team2/. Deployed (the-studio-nujf8vleb), verified live.

• Team 2 page (Dave's call, task #3) Oct 1

  duplicated /team/ to /team2/ as a quick experiment, same 15 cards but trading-card-style tall portrait frames (3:4, object-fit cover center top); Dave's photo path fixed to /team2/assets/. Deployed (the-studio-oftuzslwo), verified live: 15 cards, 3:4 frames, all images 200.

• Homepage "record label" teaser (Dave's call, task #2) Oct 1

  under "Want to join a record label? Learn more here." added a little image of the entire studio team with a "Meet the team" link to /team/. First used a 5x3 PIL montage of all 15 portraits (/assets/team-collage.jpg), then Dave sent a temp group photo of the kids, swapped to that (/assets/team-temp.jpg, 1400x968). Deployed (the-studio-50hxyukeh), verified live: teaser present, temp image 200.

• Team page overhaul (Dave's call, task #1). All 15 photos in 4 Oct 1

  3 landscape frames bleeding edge to edge like Dinesh's (object-fit cover, center top; no more letterboxing); fixed Dave Dlaney's photo (src was pointing at the old /cast/assets path after the rename); Sally now uses the single portrait (shortbus/assets/characters/sally.png) instead of the four-pose composite; removed the "The campers", "The grown-ups", and "Behind the music" section headers plus the "One camp. One chorus" outro and "Meet them in the story" link, one unified grid for the whole studio team. Deployed (the-studio-ml2h7jouk), verified live: 15 cards, 4:3 frames, all images 200.

• Cast page moved to /team (Dave's call Oct 1

  "let's put it at /team"). Renamed cast/ to team/, title and h1 from "Cast" to "Team", added permanent redirects /cast and /cast/ to /team/ in vercel.json. Deployed (the-studio-8rr4z307b), verified live: /team/ 200 with 15 cast cards and "Team | The Studio" title, /cast 308 redirects to /team/.

• Website in a Box fixes + gallery expansion (Dave's calls). (a) CSS fix for "Inco Oct 1

  Website in a Box fixes + gallery expansion (Dave's calls). (a) CSS fix for "Incorrect CSS": page was built in the research-document aesthetic (Newsreader/Azeret/Work Sans, cream background, off-brand gold) instead of the store design system; now uses /assets/nav.css, store tokens, system fonts. Also gave it the proper site header (was a broken custom topbar with no links) plus the standard footer. (b) Gallery expansion: screenshotted every page in the site footer, 13 new 1280x960 screenshots (home challenge/music/story/projects sections, albums, dlaney books, everything, props, experiments, dashboard, manifesto, legal, hiring; store page was already there), 16 cards total with captions. Also shipped the /store/ "Real Song" card fix ("Your Real Song, sung by a real human vocalist."). Deployed (the-studio-n7jp5t762), verified live: 16 cards, all 13 new images serving, nav.css linked, no serif fonts, standard nav/footer, Real Song copy on /store/.

• /dlaney/ music section fully merged (Dave's call, from his phone screenshot Oct 1

  huge white gap between the reMarkable intro and "My best five."). Merged the old #music section into #songs: one section, narrow wrap for the intro, wide wrap for the best-five list, player, pill button, and lyrics link; single 64px gap between intro and "My best five." instead of the old double section padding (110-190px x2). Deployed (the-studio-hooprib1s), verified live: one #songs section, no #music, all content inside.

• Mobile hero CTA visibility fix (Dave's call, from his phone screenshot Oct 1

  the CTA buttons didn't show up on mobile, pushed below the fold). Slimmed the mobile hero ~115px: inner padding 64/48, eyebrow tighter, h1 34px, photo capped at 230px tall, sub 16px, buttons margin 22px. Deployed (the-studio-hvme9tc0i), verified live.

• Mobile hero top spacing tightened (Dave's call, from his phone screenshot Oct 1

  "too much wasted space up here"). Reduced mobile .hero-v2-inner top padding 112px to 80px, then to 64px as part of the CTA fix. Deployed (the-studio-89otevgne), verified live.

• PRIORITY #2 Oct 1

  New store product "Website in a Box" ($99 website template, Dave's call). Built and deployed (the-studio-iqkf9p60x), verified live: new product page /store/website-in-a-box/ (browser-mockup hero with real homepage screenshot, $99 one-time, spec grid, 3 steps, gallery with real screenshots of /dlaney/ /sally/ /store/, FAQ, reservation modal, sticky mobile buy bar); 4th card on /store/, "Four ways" lede updated, all 4 screenshots 200.

• PRIORITY #1 Oct 1

  Mobile homepage redesign (Dave's call). Built: mobile hero restructured copy-first (eyebrow, 40px headline, Dave+Sally photo as rounded 4:3 card, simplified sub, full-width stacked CTAs); 760px section rhythm tightened (72px padding, 36px headlines, 17px ledes); royalties band stacks Sally under copy on mobile. Deployed (the-studio-j9sjp1k5g), verified live: homepage 200, hero-v2-photo in served HTML. (Browser visual check unavailable: remote browser has no mobile viewport; Dave to eyeball on his phone.)

• NEW PAGE thestudio.io/cast ("Cast", important). Live and verified (deployed the- Oct 1

  NEW PAGE thestudio.io/cast ("Cast", important). Live and verified (deployed the-studio-fuxepi1wm): 15 cast cards, Dave's yellow-background headshot, unified nav + standard footer. Groups: The campers (7), The grown-ups (6), Behind the music (Dave + Dlaney character). Reused existing portraits in /shortbus/assets/portraits/ as-is in 2:3 cards. Still open: Tex portrait (no image exists; placeholder card) and the Dlaney character portrait (new; placeholder card). 4-images-in-one four-block options for both are being generated via ChatGPT in the VM browser; nothing final until Dave picks.

• "Worms Eat Your Brain" added as a songwriting project and a blocker (Dave's call Oct 1

  "Worms Eat Your Brain" added as a songwriting project and a blocker (Dave's call, from his message): Marty's song, she tries to scare the other kids at camp ("you're going to be dead soon, worms are going to eat your brain"), write it FUNNY. Added to ~/workspace/your_files/songwriting/Songwriting.md ("Songwriting projects (up next)") and as blocker #8 in ~/workspace/your_files/Blockers.md.

• /dlaney/ "50 songs." section spacing tightened (Dave's call, from his screenshot Oct 1

  /dlaney/ "50 songs." section spacing tightened (Dave's call, from his screenshot). Added #songs-scoped CSS overrides: image margin-bottom 36->24px, headline 26->18px, lede 60->32px, paragraphs 24->16px. Deployed (the-studio-lk32grhlr), verified live on /dlaney/.

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