V4 — The Terminal

commit 0 — initial construction. Built from the shared content spec. JS-gated motion and forward-slash zip deploys from the start (lessons from V1/V2 rounds).

Lighthouse — final build (local run, 2026-07-09). Home 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 (perf / accessibility / best-practices / SEO), 165 KB. For-clients 100 / 100 / 100 / 100, 159 KB. Guide 100 / 100 / 100 / 100, 160 KB.

commit 3 — Critic round 3 (final). Verdict: "top three on concept — the inspectable-pipeline idea and the honesty markers are the strongest thinking in the room." Remaining notes, all actioned: the findings-loop caption overflowed its pill and collided with connectors — the pill now holds only "FINDINGS LOOP — QUOTE OR ABSTAIN" with the full sentence living in the phosphor subhead below, geometry tightened; two-up card grids now collapse to one column under 640px (the inline column styles were overriding the breakpoint); the form eyebrow claimed five fields over a four-field form — on a verifiability thesis that's a brand wound, fixed and all numeric eyebrows audited; the traveling packets now ride only the short inter-node segments so motion never occludes words; home-page eyebrows translated to human-first ("The team — exec board 2026"); photo slots became initial-monograms with a "photo: pending" microlabel; dim-text contrast raised a step.

commit 2 — Critic round 2. Top notes: the pipeline diagram — "the memorability engine of the whole concept" — was four grey boxes with an unlabeled dashed rect that read as a bug; the hero terminal clipped mid-word on mobile with no affordance; the headline's green em swallowed 60% of the headline; three equal hero doors; services pasted verbatim on both pages; "first" read as a typo in a numeral row; IMG slots read as broken checkboxes and the PID column spent a column on a joke; 5,300px of identical near-black; "stdin" jargon at the conversion moment. Changed: pipeline rebuilt — tinted stages (amber review, phosphor client), micro-captions per node, the findings loop labeled with the quote-or-abstain rule, packets travelling the path (reduced-motion-gated), and a vertical step-list replacing it under 640px; separate mobile transcripts authored for every terminal (short key:value lines, nothing clips); headline green cut to the payload with text-wrap: balance and the hero set as copy-left/terminal-right at desktop; one primary door with a quiet mono line for students/firms; "1st"; portrait-ratio photo slots with a frame glyph, PID deleted, emails quieted; the recruiting band phosphor-tinted as the mid-page waypoint; scanlines now live only on terminal panels; the form kicker says "contact" and labels speak sentence-case. Services on for-clients kept content-identical to home by design (shared content rule) — the duplication note is honored by the other variants via compact index lists; here the cards carry the section structure, and a full build would differentiate with real case links.

commit 1 — Critic round 1. Top notes: every CTA was written in flag syntax, locking out the non-technical director ("the variant's best idea speaks fluently to the one audience that was never going to hire it"); the terminal's dot-leader alignment collapsed on mobile wrap; the amber PENDING banners out-shouted the green CTAs; the pipeline diagram — the thesis centerpiece — was a timid strip with its differentiator in a 10px caption; hero opener generic; seven sections one wallpaper; partners section flat; team-as-processes cold; form fields near-invisible with the "not wired" note placed before the fields; macOS traffic lights a rented cliché. Changed: all CTAs now say the plain thing in the mono face ("Start a scoping call") — flag syntax lives only inside the terminal windows; shell output never wraps (scrolls inside the window, smaller mobile type); placeholders demoted to dim unboxed warning lines; the pipeline got a panel of its own on a banded section with the quote-or-abstain rule promoted to a phosphor subhead; hero now opens "Pro bono consulting — with a quality system you can inspect" and the duplicated facts moved solely into the session output; sections alternate band tones; partners are two command-labeled cards with their own CTAs; the team table gained reserved photo-frame slots per row (no invented bios — honesty rules); form borders brightened and the disclaimer moved below the submit; window chrome replaced with a 180dc session tab. Not actioned: a "why I'm here" column per board member — that would be invented personal content.