What shipped today
Shipped the workshop landing page that had been sitting untracked since Feb 24. “Publish like you have a content team” is a live, 90-minute workshop targeting consultants and independent experts who know they should be publishing but aren’t. It walks them through building an AI content pipeline — the same system Paul uses for client work — and includes a follow-on “publishing circle” ($97/month) for ongoing accountability.
The page was content-complete but needed one code fix: the CTA section used an inline style="color: white;" instead of the site’s cta-text class. Fixed that to match the pattern used on contact, about, and other pages. Added “Workshop” to the main nav between Products and Partners, bumping downstream menu weights.
Reviewed the page in Chrome on both desktop and mobile — layout, typography, and section alternating backgrounds all render correctly.
Completed
- Workshop landing page shipped and deployed (no tracked issue — was carry-over from Feb 24)
- Workshop added to site navigation
Carry-over
- Zero open issues on GitHub. The backlog is completely empty and needs a
/scoutpass to generate new work. - “Content alignment Q1 2026” milestone has minimal progress and no target date. Q1 ends in a month.
- Existing bug: services and partners pages use
prose-contentin their CTA sections without a color override, making text dark-on-dark. Not urgent but worth a cleanup issue.
Risks
- Empty backlog means no queued work for
/grindor/exec. Need to generate issues before the next working session can be productive.
Flags and watch-outs
- The CTA color bug on services/partners pages is cosmetic but visible — dark gray text on dark gray background in the footer CTA.
Next session
- Run
/scoutto explore the codebase and generate issues. The site has zero open issues — need to rebuild the backlog. - Create an issue for the CTA color bug on services and partners pages (prose-content in cta-section should use cta-text).
- Triage the “Content alignment Q1 2026” milestone — decide if it’s a real deadline and what issues belong to it.
- Consider whether the workshop page needs a dedicated landing-page layout or if
singleis sufficient long-term.
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