What shipped today
Massive cleanup day. Three /scout passes identified 15 issues across content alignment, site infrastructure, and CSS/UX quality — all 15 resolved and shipped to production.
Content alignment (GH-1 through GH-4): Updated Authexis product page with full pipeline description, removed stale Flight Crew references from CLAUDE.md, PRODUCT.md, and live collateral, fixed the Hugo product layout template to render app_powered_by, and updated the partner program 1-pager pricing and positioning to match Authexis’s current direction.
Site infrastructure (GH-6 through GH-10): Added OpenGraph and Twitter Card meta tags to the base template for social sharing. Deleted 16 dead files — an orphaned subfooter partial, an unused page template, and 13 stock images no longer referenced anywhere. Added robots.txt and placeholder list/taxonomy templates to eliminate Hugo build warnings. Compressed the Textorium icon from 499KB to 69KB (resized from 1024px to 256px for its 128px display context). Extracted the inline SVG logo into a shared Hugo partial used across all three 1-pager templates.
CSS and UX quality (GH-11 through GH-15): Marked 30 draft/archive/reference markdown files as draft: true, dropping published pages from 70 to 40 — those 1-pagers were being indexed by search engines despite being internal collateral. Removed ~15 unused CSS component classes from main.scss (only referenced in archived redesign files). Converted h2 from hardcoded 36px to 2.25rem, removed the base h3 orange color override, and added a .heading-accent utility class. Replaced all inline style= attributes on the services, products, and partners intro sections with proper SCSS classes. Added a mobile hamburger menu — the site now has responsive navigation with an animated toggle at < 768px.
Completed
- GH-1 — Update Authexis partner print 1-pager to match new product direction
- GH-2 — Render app_powered_by field in Hugo product layout template
- GH-3 — Remove stale Flight Crew references from CLAUDE.md, PRODUCT.md, and live collateral
- GH-4 — Update partner program 1-pager pricing and positioning
- GH-6 — Add OpenGraph and Twitter Card meta tags to baseof.html
- GH-7 — Remove dead files — orphaned subfooter, unused template, orphaned images
- GH-8 — Add robots.txt and fix Hugo build warnings for missing list/taxonomy templates
- GH-9 — Compress Textorium icon from 499KB to 69KB
- GH-10 — Extract duplicate SVG logo to partial across 1-pager templates
- GH-11 — Mark 30 draft/archive/reference 1-pager markdown files as draft
- GH-12 — Add mobile hamburger menu with responsive nav toggle
- GH-13 — Replace inline styles with SCSS classes on services, products, partners pages
- GH-14 — Remove ~15 unused CSS component classes from main.scss
- GH-15 — Fix mixed font sizing units (px vs rem) and h3 hardcoded orange
Carry-over
None — milestone queue is empty.
Risks
None.
Flags and watch-outs
- The hamburger menu uses inline
onclickJS — works fine but if more interactive behavior is added later, consider extracting to a separate JS file - ImageMagick PNG compression made Textorium screenshots larger (not smaller) — only the icon resize was kept. The editor/library/welcome PNGs are already reasonably sized at their current dimensions.
- iA Presenter doesn’t render images from markdown — may need drag-and-drop or different path handling for the pipeline diagram
Next session
- Run another
/scoutpass — the “Content alignment Q1 2026” milestone is at 100%, so consider either closing the milestone or creating a new one for the next phase of work - Visual QA pass on the mobile hamburger menu across different phone sizes — test on actual device or Chrome DevTools mobile emulation
- Consider adding the Authexis pipeline diagram to the products page (was in carry-over from morning session)
- Review whether the 40 remaining published pages are all intentional — the draft cleanup was aggressive but there may be more to prune
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