Thesis: clients hire us for exactly one artifact — a board-ready deck. This site shows the product by being the product: title slides, an agenda, action titles, source lines, gantt timelines, takeaway boxes, a classification strip that reads PUBLIC — PRO BONO. One of ten competing design variants; content identical across all ten (see website/variants/content.md).

To our knowledge, no consulting website — student or professional — has done this literally. That's the bet.

Build: hand-written static HTML/CSS, one stylesheet, no framework, no images — the slide chrome is pure CSS. Fonts self-hosted woff2 (~127 KB). Lightest possible footprint for the heaviest-feeling metaphor.

To extend: every new page is a new deck file (the header names it: 180DC_X.deck). Our Work becomes one deck per case — Situation/Approach/Outcome as three slides with real source lines; Impact is a data appendix; the murder-board stamp lands on cases that survived one. Reuse .slide, .fw, .gantt, .takeaway, .roster. Rules: every slide gets an action title that argues; every factual claim gets a source line; nothing enters a slide that couldn't survive a review.

Deploy: zip-deploy to Netlify via API (see website/variants/tools/deploy.ps1).

Rev 0 — initial construction. Built from the shared content spec with all ten accumulated lessons from V1–V5 applied: no generic reveals (this variant has zero entrance motion by thesis), no symmetric-card default (the framework grid is a deck convention, not a SaaS wall), plain language on every control, no verbatim duplication between pages (the client page is a different deck), one placeholder register, correct field counts.

Rev D — Critic round 3 (final). Seven notes, all actioned. (1) The client page's submit button collided with the slide footer on mobile — the intake form now carries a 2rem bottom margin. (2) The divider ghost numerals crossed the footer rule, so one flat 9% opacity read as two different greys; they are now clipped to a content-area wrapper that stops 3.3rem short of the footer. (3) The agenda's dot leaders led nowhere — slide numbers moved to the right margin so each leader now connects a row to its number, and leaders are suppressed below 640px where they cannot read as leaders. (4) The gantt drew point events as bars, implying a week of work for a one-hour call: wk 0 and wk 1 are now milestone diamonds, bars are reserved for the project and the final week, and hairline gridlines at wk 3/6/9 give the bars something to be measured against (ticks are positioned on the gridlines they name, not spaced apart). Applied on both pages. (5) The team roster's role column was starving the name column — "External Relations Director" held the table open on white-space: nowrap and broke names across three lines. Roles now wrap, columns are explicitly 37/27/36, every name and every address holds one line, and the closing CTA is pinned to the roster's baseline. (6) The client page's slides 4–5 re-taught the intro deck: the six-area grid is compressed to a one-line reference row that points at the fuller slide, replaced by a scope contract (what the signed proposal fixes / what it deliberately leaves out); slide 5's repeated stamp is replaced by the review rule drawn as a gate — quote found, the finding stands; no quote, it is suppressed. (7) The hero door cards were undersized against a 3.8rem headline — the stack now scales to headline height, chip metadata breaks only at its "·" separators (never mid-filename), and the chrome-bar filename truncates on its own underscores on mobile rather than mid-word.

Rev C — Critic round 2. Verdict at round 2: "top three of ten on concept and integrity — give the deck a real cover slide and it contends for the win." Top notes, all actioned: the cover was the least designed slide (now a full-bleed deep-green cover with the door chips as light tickets — the design budget spent where decks spend it); the mobile gantt clipped labels (bars are now mute duration marks above the stacked week list); the agenda skipped numbers and doubled them per row (now all eleven rows, dividers dimmed, one number per row); divider leading was broken and the green fields empty (line-height 1.1, ghost section numerals, mini-agenda lines); placeholders demoted from stickers to quiet marginal tags (one accent box per slide); the footer classification reduced to two resolved values (PRO BONO / SOURCED); serif reserved strictly for takeaways and the headline pivot; the chrome-bar counter brightened with tabular numerals, and arrow keys now jump slides — deck behaviour, not motion.

Rev B — Critic round 1. Verdict at round 1: "second or third — the only concept in the room." Top notes: the title slide broke the deck's own action-title rule (a category label, not an argument) and offered no door; the gantt clipped its labels on mobile; nine identical white cards flatlined the scroll; the agenda's page numerals floated orphaned; two slides carried large voids; the classification strip repeated into wallpaper; roster typography slipped. Changed: the title slide now argues ("You'd hire us for board-ready decks — so judge one: this website is it") and carries three file-chip doors in its right column; the gantt swaps to a stacked week list under 640px; two full-green section dividers added and all slides renumbered to 11; agenda rows got dotted leaders and remain working links; slides now hug their content; the classification strip became a live honesty indicator (SOURCED / [TO COME] / PRO BONO per slide); roles set in small caps with emails a size up; the chrome bar now echoes the current slide number as you scroll.