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D19 into §3 and swept to all six destinations Pouya named: both agent briefs
(scope + severity filter), /build Phases 2–4 (non-gating questions, scope, stop
signal, two-round cap), /wrap, and CLAUDE.md (comments record decisions, not
history). Sweep verified by command, not recalled.

Rulings applied:
  Q46(a) PUBLISHABLE — three §4 Offerings rows flipped; gate 1 records
         [Pouya's stated basis], never [verified]. Step 5 unblocked.
  Q48    closed, not site-relevant.
  Q49    one §4 row, "Mediator"; read as declining Q49(b), so worksFor stays out.
  Q50    DEVIATES — ships as name + slogan, not the concatenation. Flagged.
  Q51    OBA sections stay; the regulator/voluntary distinction recorded.
  Q52    docs/reference/deploy-credential-verification.md — 18 read-only AWS
         calls, re-run rather than transcribed, access key ID redacted.
  Q53    memberOf emitted on /about/'s Person node.

Two review rounds. The headline finding was this session's own: the Q53 sweep
was asserted and never run, leaving six in-scope records saying memberOf was
withheld — including §12 R10, which is read aloud every session. Round 2 then
found that round 1's simplification had put memberOf on / as well; the per-page
opt-in is restored, because Pouya's ruling turns on /about/'s visible HTML.

Also fixed: MEMBERSHIP_ORGS had orphaned BOUTIQUE's D16 JSDoc; /'s title now
derives from the constants; §7's deploy row stated and retracted three facts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0148NztQskLKKApP5SzAA78e
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# 04 — Discoverability
The problem this project exists to fix. `AGENTS.md` §2 has the measurements.
> **Those measurements are under review — `AGENTS.md` Q34.** They were taken on
> 2026-08-25; a re-fetch on 2026-08-26 returned a bundler harness whose real
> `<head>` sits JSON-escaped inside a `<script>` and whose application lives in
> nine UUID-named files that were not fetched. Some of §2 reproduced exactly
> (the 2.2 MB single file, the placeholder `<title>`); some could not be
> reproduced from the served HTML at all. **Cite §2, and cite Q34 with it. Do
> not put any of these figures in public copy until Q34 closes.**
---
## The baseline being replaced
| | Now `[verified 2026-08-25]` | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Content in server HTML | `SML Company · DISPUTE RESOLUTION · Unpacking...` | Every word |
| Indexable pages | 1 | 17 + articles (19 fixed URLs, less the two `/legal/*` pages, which are `noindex` and excluded from the sitemap) |
| `<title>` | `SML Company · Dispute Resolution` — pre-rebrand placeholder | Unique per page |
| Meta description | none | Unique per page |
| `<meta viewport>` | **absent** | Present |
| Canonical URL | none | Every page |
| OG / Twitter tags | none | Every page |
| Structured data | none | Person, ProfessionalService, Article, FAQ, Breadcrumb |
| `robots.txt` | 403 | Served |
| Sitemap | none | Generated at build |
| Favicon | none | Full set |
Astro's static output solves most of this by existing. The rest is the spec below.
## Why static output matters more than usual here
Google can sometimes render client-side JavaScript. Bing largely does not.
LinkedIn's preview crawler does not. Slack's unfurler does not. **And the
crawlers behind AI assistants — increasingly how counsel and in-house teams
find a neutral — generally do not.**
A site that requires three CDN round trips and an in-browser Babel compile before
producing a sentence is invisible to all of them. That is the whole argument for
D1.
---
## Metadata
Every page passes through one `SEO` component. A page without it is not finished.
```
title 5060 chars, unique. Pattern: "<Page> · Pouya Lajevardi".
`/` composes its own from the constants — `SITE.name` +
`SITE.tagline` — rather than a literal, so the masthead and
the title cannot drift. This spec carried the literal with an
ampersand after the composition shipped with interpuncts;
cite the constants, do not restate them (AGENTS.md §7 rule).
ARTICLES ARE THE EXCEPTION: no " · Pouya Lajevardi" suffix.
The suffix is 18 chars, so a headline that already reads
5060 renders at 6878 — over this ceiling. Measured against
the five launch headlines in 03-content-spec.md, the suffix
rule fails 5 of 5; without it, 4 of 5 pass. An article's
headline IS its <title>; `seoTitle` in the frontmatter
overrides it when a headline that reads well is out of range.
src/content.config.ts enforces this and names the offending
string and its length in the build error.
description 140160 chars, unique, written for a human, not stuffed
canonical absolute, https, trailing slash
og:title/description/image/url/type/site_name/locale (en_CA)
twitter:card summary_large_image
robots index,follow — except /legal/* which is noindex,follow
```
**OG images:** 1200 × 630. Never a screenshot.
**RULED 2026-08-27 (`AGENTS.md` Q40, R15) — TWO kinds of card, not one, and the
generator is deferred to build step 7.** This spec said "one template" for all
nineteen pages. Pouya split it:
> "A portrait is the **right** OG image for `/` and `/about/` — a face is the
> strongest social preview for a personal brand. It is the **wrong** one for
> nineteen pages, where a typed card carrying the page title would do the work.
>
> But do not build the generator now and do not leave 'portrait everywhere' as
> an untracked interim. **Ship it at step 7 alongside Insights, which needs
> per-article cards anyway — one build, one dependency, one review.**"
So:
| Pages | Card |
|---|---|
| `/` and `/about/` | The **portrait** crop, `src/assets/og-portrait.jpg`. Not an interim — the decided answer |
| Every other page | Generated at build with `satori` or `astro-og-canvas`, using the site's own type and palette: display headline on cream, infinity mark, designation line |
| Each article | Per-article card from the same generator — the reason the two jobs are one build |
**Until step 7 every page shares the portrait, and that is a RECORDED interim
that blocks cutover, not build step 3.** It is tracked as **R15** in
`AGENTS.md` §12 with its removal trigger, because a link preview nobody on the
team ever sees is exactly the kind of interim that becomes permanent by
never being raised. The dependency choice is made against R11 on the day, not
recalled from this paragraph.
## Structured data
JSON-LD only. Validate against Google's Rich Results Test before cutover.
| Type | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `Person` | `/about/`, referenced site-wide | **Emitted:** `name`, `url`, `jobTitle`, `description`, `alumniOf` (Bond University), `knowsLanguage` (en, fa), `hasCredential` (Q.Med), `sameAs` (LinkedIn), `email`, `image`. **Emitted on `/about/` only:** `memberOf` — the four §4 memberships as `Organization` nodes (Q53, ruled 2026-08-28). `/` shows no memberships, so its Person node omits it: structured data represents the page it sits on. **Withheld:** `worksFor` — Q49(b) declined the row 2026-08-28; `provider → Person → worksFor` would assert a same-entity claim §4 does not row. *(This enumeration listed `worksFor` as emitted while the same cell said it was withheld, and omitted `url` and `email`, which are — wrong in both directions. The enumeration is the part an implementer copies. Found by `adversarial-reviewer`.)* **CHANGED 2026-08-28 — Q47.** This row read *"`jobTitle` = 'Director of Firm Operations'; omit `worksFor`"*, which put the boutique title on a node whose `url` is this ADR practice's `/about/` — so a consumer could attach it to this entity. Pouya's ruling reframes the field: `jobTitle` describes **this practice**, not the boutique role, which D16 keeps unnamed. The visible role line is unchanged and still reads "Director of Firm Operations at a Toronto litigation and ADR boutique". **THE VALUE IS `PRACTICE_JOB_TITLE` IN `src/data/site.ts` AND THIS ROW DOES NOT RESTATE IT** — §7's rule, applied to a string with a live revert trigger on it: this row carried the literal text for one pass, and `adversarial-reviewer` noted it would go stale the moment the constant moved. Cite, do not copy. **`worksFor` IS WITHHELD** — set for one pass under Q47, then reverted: `ProfessionalService.provider` is this Person, so `provider → Person → worksFor` asserts the same-entity claim `schema.ts` explicitly declines, and §4 says "alongside the practice" where the ruling says "operates through". **`memberOf` is emitted** — see the sentence above; Q53 closed 2026-08-28. *(This cell asserted `memberOf` was both emitted and withheld for one pass, which is the defect it already records itself being caught for on `worksFor`, in the opposite direction. The enumeration is the part an implementer copies.)* See `src/data/schema.ts` |
| `ProfessionalService` | Home | `areaServed` Toronto/Ontario, `serviceType` **Mediation / Commercial arbitration / Mediation-arbitration (med-arb)***scoped 2026-08-28 on `claims-auditor`'s finding; this row instructed the unscoped class form "Mediation/Arbitration" that Q39 struck and that `schema.ts` deliberately does not follow. Family arbitration carries prescribed training and has its own NOT OFFERED row, so unscoped "Arbitration" is the struck universal in a field nobody reads. Do not widen these strings without a §4 row to widen them from*`provider` → Person, `priceRange` once `/fees/` is real. **Never `LegalService`** — schema.org defines it as a business providing legal advice and *representation*, which asserts in machine-readable form exactly what D13 bars and §4 Forbidden calls out |
| `Service` | Each practice page | `serviceType`, `provider` → Person, `areaServed` |
| `Article` | Each article | `headline`, `description`, `datePublished`, `dateModified`, `author` → Person, `image` |
| `BreadcrumbList` | All nested pages | Matches visible breadcrumbs |
| `FAQPage` | `/for-parties/`, `/med-arb/` | Only where the visible page genuinely is Q&A. Never fabricate questions to farm a rich result |
**`hasCredential` must reflect reality.** Q.Med is held. Q.Arb is not. Marking an
unheld credential as held in structured data is a misrepresentation that happens
to be machine-readable.
## Crawlability
**`public/robots.txt` is the artefact — read it, do not read a copy of it
here.** This spec used to reproduce the file inline and the reproduction had
already drifted from it by 2026-08-26, which is the failure mode the `AGENTS.md`
§7 rule exists to stop.
**It disallows nothing, and that is deliberate.** This spec previously
prescribed `Disallow: /legal/` alongside `noindex` on those pages, and the two
cancel each other: a crawler forbidden to *fetch* a URL never reads the
`noindex` on it. `/legal/privacy/` and `/legal/terms/` are linked from the
footer of every page, so they are discovered regardless — and the likely result
of the pair was Google listing the bare URLs as "no information available", the
opposite of the intent, with the directive that would have suppressed them
sitting unread behind the wall. **`noindex` is what de-indexes; `Disallow` is
what prevents fetching.** Use the one that matches the problem, and never both
on the same path.
Do not block AI crawlers. Being read by an assistant that a general counsel is
using to shortlist neutrals is the point.
**Sitemap:** `@astrojs/sitemap`, excluding `/legal/*` and any `draft: true`
article. Submit to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools at cutover.
**Internal linking.** Every practice page links to `/mediation/` and
`/arbitration/`; those link back to the practice areas; every article links to
at least one practice page. This is what turns Insights into ranking power for
the pages that convert. Breadcrumbs on every nested page.
**404 page.** Real, styled, with search-intent links out. CloudFront must return
it with a genuine 404 status — not a 200, which the S3 website-endpoint pattern
gets wrong by default.
## Performance
Core Web Vitals are a ranking input, and the current build fails all of them.
| Metric | Budget |
|---|---|
| LCP | < 2.0 s, Slow 4G |
| CLS | < 0.05 |
| INP | < 150 ms |
| JS per route | < 100 KB |
| Lighthouse (mobile) | ≥ 95 all four categories — **not measurable until step 7, see below** |
> ⚠️ **Lighthouse verification is UNAVAILABLE until build step 7.** `@lhci/cli`
> was removed on 2026-08-26 — it was the sole source of all 10 `npm audit`
> findings (7 high), `0.15.1` is `latest` so there was no clean upgrade, and it
> could not run at all with no pages and no `lighthouserc`. The budget below is
> not suspended; the tool that measures it is absent. Re-add at step 7 under
> `AGENTS.md` R11, checking for a patched release rather than assuming `0.15.1`
> is still the ceiling. Until then, a run that skips this is skipping something
> known — not something forgotten. `AGENTS.md` §7 has the state.
How: static HTML, self-hosted preloaded subset fonts, AVIF/WebP with explicit
dimensions, critical CSS inlined, no third-party scripts on any page except the
booking embed on `/contact/` — and that one is lazy-loaded behind a click.
## Local and professional presence
Not code, but it belongs in the launch checklist: Google Business Profile for the
practice; ADRIC and ADRIO directory listings pointing at the site; a LinkedIn
profile whose headline and Featured section match the brand (brief §VIII);
consistent naming across all of them. **Not "name, address and phone"** — §4
publishes no phone number and no street address, only "Toronto, Ontario; by
appointment". Directory forms that demand a full NAP get what §4 verifies and
nothing more.
## Post-launch verification
- [ ] `curl -s https://adr.smlcompany.ca/ | grep -c "<h1"` returns ≥ 1
- [ ] Every page renders its full text with JavaScript disabled
- [ ] Rich Results Test passes on Person, ProfessionalService, Article
- [ ] OG preview renders correctly in LinkedIn Post Inspector and Slack
- [ ] Sitemap submitted to Google Search Console and Bing
- [ ] No page returns 200 for a URL that should 404
- [ ] Lighthouse ≥ 95 mobile on `/`, `/about/`, one practice page, one article
**blocked until `@lhci/cli` is re-added at step 7.** Do not tick this box
from a manual Chrome DevTools run and call it the same check