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Applies Pouya's rulings on Q42, Q41(a)(b)(c), Q43 and Q40, then builds `/about/` — six of docs/01's seven items. `/about/` ships WITHOUT a memberships group. R10 is a prohibition on shipping a page that lists memberships before they are re-confirmed; the re-confirmation is a fact only Pouya holds and was not obtained. The first version published all four and disclosed the gap in five places instead; both review agents rejected that. Q44 carries the question. Rulings: - Q42 — ENE, dispute-system design and pre-dispute technical advisory rowed; settlement counsel struck as a partisan role. The strike exposed a hole in the offering test, which now states the prior question it was missing. - Q41(a) — Q37 reaches prose, and prose is held to a higher bar. The sentence is now one constant, ASYMMETRY_LINE, because two hand-typed copies had already diverged inside one session. - Q41(b) — not restored; the implication turned out to be in three places, two of which survived the sweep that closed it. - Q41(c) — verified against the LAT's own Rules and extracted into docs/reference/lat-case-conference.md. Rule 2.4 makes "Pre-Hearing Conference" the Tribunal's own term for a case conference; the Rules contain zero occurrences of `mediat` in 66,593 characters. - Q43 — the timings are service commitments; PROCESS_FRAMING renders adjacent to them, not in a lede above. - Q40 — bundled to step 7 as R15, blocking cutover. Four review passes, 43 findings, nine of them defects in their own predecessors' fixes. The worst was mine: the false universal Q39 struck reached a public page. Also fixed a portrait ladder that upscaled 1.93x at 1024/DPR2 on BOTH pages — the shipped home page included — because its 960 ceiling was derived from the layout range where the image is narrowest. Verified: check/lint/build/audit clean; 0 upscaling across 11 device profiles; 0 overflow and 0 over-wide elements at 13 widths; 0 contrast failures across 127 and 88 painted pairs; 0 print failures against white paper; reveal 0 hidden under reduced-motion and print; zero JavaScript. Lighthouse NOT RUN — tool unavailable until step 7 (R11). HTML validator NOT RUN. Opens Q44 (memberships), Q45 (PDF bio), Q46 (offering-test gating; the glossary standard), Q47 (jobTitle without worksFor). Adds R15. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <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.mdQ34. 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 50–60 chars, unique. Pattern: "<Page> · Pouya Lajevardi"
Home: "Pouya Lajevardi · Mediation & Arbitration · Toronto"
ARTICLES ARE THE EXCEPTION: no " · Pouya Lajevardi" suffix.
The suffix is 18 chars, so a headline that already reads
50–60 renders at 68–78 — 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 140–160 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 |
name, jobTitle, description, alumniOf (Bond University), knowsLanguage (en, fa), hasCredential (Q.Med), sameAs (LinkedIn), image. jobTitle = "Director of Firm Operations"; omit worksFor — populating it either names the boutique (D16) or misstates the employer |
ProfessionalService |
Home | areaServed Toronto/Ontario, serviceType Mediation/Arbitration, 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/cliwas removed on 2026-08-26 — it was the sole source of all 10npm auditfindings (7 high),0.15.1islatestso there was no clean upgrade, and it could not run at all with no pages and nolighthouserc. The budget below is not suspended; the tool that measures it is absent. Re-add at step 7 underAGENTS.mdR11, checking for a patched release rather than assuming0.15.1is 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/cliis re-added at step 7. Do not tick this box from a manual Chrome DevTools run and call it the same check