docs(service): re-verify truthful manual Clutch profile handoff against current main and live (2026-08-12)

docs/service/clutch-manual-profile-2026-08-09.md

@@ -200,3 +200,84 @@ Same result as the 2026-08-09 preparation: every field in the table can still
 be filled truthfully from live first-party surfaces, nothing needs to move to
 the "Never on the profile" list, and no reject condition is triggered. The
 handoff is ready for Nish's manual submission unchanged.
+
+## Re-verification (added 2026-08-12, lane 1)
+
+Re-verified against the current origin/main head (18128e8, "fix(public): serve
+rel=icon on /brief-requested and guard favicon links in check-site.mjs (#113)")
+and the live site on 2026-08-12. Since the last re-verify (d70bea0, which
+measured 354e725), twenty-five commits landed; the ones that touched public
+surfaces are 0ad7481 (home-page footer tap target), 6f85c61 (tablet-width
+intake form), 2ae7504 (search-intent bridge for "conversion audit"), d4a2c30
+(appraisal intake field labels and document titles on /pricing and
+/brief-requested), 9302611 (rel=icon favicon on every page), and 18128e8
+(rel=icon on /brief-requested and the favicon guard), plus 5ab84ea (retired
+app/api hosts), 1e78ecf (check-site copy guards), and 37ddaed (wrangler
+toolchain). `git diff d70bea0..origin/main -- public/llms.txt public/offer.md
+public/pricing.html public/audit.html public/index.html` shows no change to
+any identity, offer, contact, price, or boundary string this profile uses:
+the only edits are the q8 conversion-audit controlled-question entry and a
+"conversion audit" boundary paragraph in llms.txt/offer.md, aria-labels on
+the appraisal intake fields, favicon links, the /pricing document title, and
+the q8 question block on /audit. Fresh checks:
+
+1. Live `https://tinystudio.io/llms.txt` and its mirror
+   `https://tinystudio.io/offer.md` (both 200) are byte-identical to the
+   source files on this head (curl diff: zero differences) and still carry,
+   verbatim: the offer ("The Website Appraisal — the free leak audit of
+   high-ticket service homepages — and the human-reviewed desk that closes
+   what the audit finds"), "reviewed by a person, not autonomous software",
+   "month one corrects the costliest fault; months two and three build the
+   loop", "Six appraisals a month, done by hand", "run by Nish, who signs
+   every audit", "The site states no base city or office address", "clients
+   are never named", "Contact: hello@tinystudio.io", and the price-and-terms
+   pointer to `https://tinystudio.io/pricing.html`.
+2. Live `https://tinystudio.io/pricing.html` (served via the Worker's
+   redirect to the clean `/pricing`, HTTP 200) still states exactly the price
+   the handoff relies on — "the appraisal is free, the desk is $2,500 a month
+   on a three-month minimum" (four occurrences in the served page) — and
+   still contains no "hourly", "project size", or "minimum project" figure
+   anywhere, so those profile fields stay blank.
+3. Live `https://tinystudio.io/audit.html` (clean `/audit`, HTTP 200) still
+   answers q3 "Where is TinyStudio based?" with "The site does not state a
+   base city or office address" and q6 "Does TinyStudio publish client work?"
+   with "no logos, no case studies, no testimonials, no 'as seen at'";
+   live `https://tinystudio.io/` still carries the "Where TinyStudio is
+   based" disclosure. The location and clients fields stay empty. All five
+   live surfaces (`/`, `/audit`, `/pricing`, `llms.txt`, `offer.md`) diffed
+   byte-identical against the source on this head, so there is no deployment
+   lag between the checked source and the served bytes.
+4. The official Clutch policy page
+   (`https://help.clutch.co/en/knowledge/get-listed-on-clutch`, re-fetched
+   2026-08-12) still documents: "Create a free company profile at
+   clutch.co/get-listed", offerings "Basic, Verified, or Advertiser", sign-in
+   "With a LinkedIn, Google Account, or Company Email Address", and the same
+   review-and-publish flow: "Once you have submitted your profile, it will be
+   sent to our team for review and publishing." No paid placement is required
+   for the Basic profile, so no reject condition is triggered.
+5. No Clutch receipt exists in the product state (no Clutch profile URL or
+   rejection response anywhere in the repo on this head); the receipt block
+   below remains unfilled and the human submission remains the open action.
+   This lane again could not re-run the external search baseline: DuckDuckGo's
+   html endpoint answered with an anomaly/challenge page and Bing answered
+   with a "solve the challenge" page for scripted queries from the VPS, so the
+   2026-08-09 baseline stands with its own caveat: it is a baseline, not proof
+   of non-existence. If a profile has been published under a different name
+   form, the "What this document does not claim" section above applies —
+   compare it against llms.txt before changing anything.
+6. Repository checks on this head pass: `npm run check` ("TinyStudio.io checks
+   passed") and the full `npm test` suite (headings 7/7, sitemap 7/7, worker
+   55/55, ui 16/16, contract 8/8, all green).
+
+One truthfulness-relevant addition since the last re-verify: the
+conversion-audit intent bridge (2ae7504) added q8 to the controlled questions
+and a boundary paragraph stating TinyStudio is not sold as a conversion audit
+service and promises no conversion lift. That reinforces the "Never on the
+profile" rule against outcome guarantees rather than weakening it; the
+overview and service-focus guidance in the table above are unaffected.
+
+Same result as the 2026-08-09 preparation and the 2026-08-11 re-verification:
+every field in the table can still be filled truthfully from live first-party
+surfaces, nothing needs to move to the "Never on the profile" list, and no
+reject condition is triggered. The handoff is ready for Nish's manual
+submission unchanged.