docs(service): re-verify truthful manual G2 profile handoff on current main (2026-08-20, lane 1)

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+# docs/service/g2-service-profile-2026-08-09.md — re-verify report (2026-08-20, lane 1)
+
+- Branch: `docs/g2-service-profile-rereverify-2026-08-20`
+- Commit: 274b1a1 (single commit on this branch; off `origin/main` head d0daea9)
+- Repo head at re-verify time: `d0daea9` "evidence(ai-search): controlled entity-and-offer re-run with first Found transitions (2026-08-15) (#227)"
+- Previous re-verify commit: `e9fc96a` (2026-08-14)
+- Live site date: 2026-08-20
+
+## What this lane changed
+
+One new re-verify section appended to `docs/service/g2-service-profile-2026-08-09.md`
+under "Re-verification (added 2026-08-20, lane 1)". It records:
+
+1. Commit-count scope (126 commits since `e9fc96a`, 21 touching `public/`).
+2. The 11 public-touching commits that change identity/offer/contact/price/boundary
+   strings (76fe17b, ed2b1a9, 23a7f06, 9b0589a5, c4475858, ffc1672b, 798cd71a,
+   43cc831, 66f7bd6, dda25f2, 9f79c71), distinguishing them from the
+   semantic/layout-only changes (0e7373fe, 2d8599a4, a654ab49).
+3. Diff stat: 8 public files changed, 58 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-); diffs are
+   clean-URL canonical/og:url/JSON-LD rewrites on `/agents`, `/pricing`,
+   `/specimen`, brief-requested internal-link rewrite, controlled-question URL
+   list and price-and-terms pointer in `llms.txt`/`offer.md` migrated to the
+   clean canonical, new domain-valuation distinction paragraph in `llms.txt`/
+   `offer.md`, intake-form `<label>` markup on `/` and `/audit`, source-only
+   TinyStudio-branded footer on `/pricing` and `/brief-requested` (live still
+   serves "The Tiny Studio" — deployment lag), new signup form in the `/pricing`
+   callout, refreshed study figures (89→91 readable, 53→56 with no FAQ),
+   retired `/agent-desk` clean canonical, `autocomplete="email"` on email input.
+4. Live surface checks (all 2026-08-20):
+   - `https://tinystudio.io/llms.txt` and `https://tinystudio.io/offer.md`:
+     byte-identical to source (curl diff: zero differences). Verbatim offer,
+     "reviewed by a person, not autonomous software", six-a-month cap,
+     "run by Nish, who signs every audit", no base city, clients never named,
+     contact `hello@tinystudio.io`, price pointer to `https://tinystudio.io/pricing`,
+     domain-value boundary ("Nor is the appraisal a domain-value estimate: no
+     domain is priced and no resale value is estimated"), conversion-audit
+     boundary ("TinyStudio is not sold as a conversion audit service, so no
+     conversion lift is promised").
+   - `https://tinystudio.io/pricing`: HTTP 200 (clean URL; `pricing.html`
+     307-redirects); four occurrences of "the appraisal is free, the desk is
+     $2,500 a month on a three-month minimum"; zero occurrences of "hourly rate",
+     "project size", or "minimum project". Deployment lag noted: source footer
+     now reads "TinyStudio · tinystudio.io" but live still reads "The Tiny Studio";
+     source canonical now points to `/pricing` but live still points to
+     `/pricing.html`. Functionally both resolve to the same page.
+   - `https://tinystudio.io/audit`: HTTP 200; q3 still answered with "The site
+     does not state a base city or office address"; q6 still answered with
+     "no logos, no case studies, no testimonials, no 'as seen at'".
+   - `https://tinystudio.io/`: HTTP 200; "Where TinyStudio is based" disclosure
+     and "Request the appraisal" intake CTA present.
+5. G2 official-page re-fetch (2026-08-20, plain HTTP): all three sources
+   (`sell.g2.com/create-a-profile`, `g2digitalmarkets.com/listing-guidelines`,
+   `research.g2.com/methodology/research-faq`) still document the flow and
+   copy rules this handoff relies on. Listing Guidelines still "Last updated on
+   May 4, 2026"; all copy rules (no first-person, no URLs/email/CTA in
+   description, no superlatives, no suffixes) intact.
+6. Repository checks on this head pass: `node scripts/check-site.mjs` returns
+   "TinyStudio.io checks passed." and `node --test scripts/test-*.mjs` runs
+   128 tests across 9 suites, all green, exit 0.
+
+## Truthfulness fix in the base content (this lane)
+
+The two active references to the price-and-terms pointer now read
+`https://tinystudio.io/pricing` (the site's own clean canonical;
+`pricing.html` 307-redirects to it) instead of the legacy
+`https://tinystudio.io/pricing.html`. This matches:
+
+- the 2026-08-15 fix the parallel Clutch handoff landed, and
+- the live source files on this head (`public/llms.txt`, `public/offer.md`,
+  `public/pricing.html`), all of which already point at the clean canonical.
+
+Historical re-verify sections were left untouched. The change is a pointer
+correction; the offer, price, contact, and boundary strings are unchanged.
+
+## What this lane did not change
+
+- The "Prepared profile content (copy-paste)" table is unchanged. Every value
+  still maps to live first-party text.
+- The "Never on the profile" list is unchanged. No boundary string weakened.
+- The "Manual submission runbook (Nish, human only)" is unchanged. The
+  submission remains a human action by Nish; nothing automated.
+- The "Acceptance / verification" criteria are unchanged.
+- The "Reject conditions" list is unchanged. None of the four blockers triggered.
+- The receipt block remains unfilled; no G2 profile URL or rejection exists in
+  the product state on this head.
+- The 2026-08-09 external-search baseline was not re-run this lane (public search
+  endpoints have blocked scripted queries from the VPS in previous lanes).
+  The 2026-08-09 baseline stands with its own caveat: it is a baseline, not
+  proof of non-existence.
+
+## Outcome
+
+Same result as the 2026-08-09 preparation and the 2026-08-11, 2026-08-12,
+and 2026-08-14 re-verifications: 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 with the canonical price
+pointer corrected.
+
+## Verification commands run
+
+```
+curl -sS -o /tmp/llms-live.txt https://tinystudio.io/llms.txt  # HTTP 200; byte-identical to public/llms.txt
+curl -sSL -o /tmp/offer-live.md https://tinystudio.io/offer.md  # HTTP 200; byte-identical to public/offer.md
+curl -sSL -o /tmp/pricing-live.html https://tinystudio.io/pricing  # HTTP 200; price string x4; no hourly/project figures
+curl -sSL -o /tmp/audit-live.html https://tinystudio.io/audit  # HTTP 200; q3/q6 answers present
+node scripts/check-site.mjs  # "TinyStudio.io checks passed."
+node --test scripts/test-*.mjs  # 128 tests, 9 suites, all green
+git diff --stat e9fc96a..origin/main -- public/llms.txt public/offer.md \
+  public/pricing.html public/audit.html public/index.html public/agents.html \
+  public/specimen.html public/brief-requested.html  # 8 files, +58/-50
+git log --oneline e9fc96a..origin/main -- public/  # 21 commits
+git log --oneline e9fc96a..origin/main  # 126 commits
+```

docs/service/g2-service-profile-2026-08-09.md

@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ scraping, no account creation by any agent, no unattended submission.
   audit finds"; six appraisals a month, done by hand; run by Nish, who signs every
   audit; clients are never named; the site states no base city or office address;
   no revenue/ranking/ROAS/conversion/booked-call/sales-volume guarantees; price and
-  terms are pointed at `https://tinystudio.io/pricing.html`.
+  terms are pointed at `https://tinystudio.io/pricing` (the site's own clean
+  canonical; `pricing.html` 307-redirects to it).
 - No G2 receipt exists in the product state.
 
 ## Prepared profile content (copy-paste)
@@ -85,9 +86,9 @@ here, leave it empty — an empty field is truthful; an invented one is not.
 | References / portfolio / case studies / reviews | Leave empty. Clients are never named and no client work is published — no logos, no case studies, no testimonials, no "as seen at". Real client reviews, when they exist, arrive through G2's own verified review process. | audit.html q6 truth; llms.txt Buyer |
 
 The description intentionally does not restate the desk price in dollars: llms.txt
-and offer.md point price and terms at `https://tinystudio.io/pricing.html` rather
-than restating amounts, and G2 copy rules keep URLs and contact details out of the
-description, so this profile follows the same rule.
+and offer.md point price and terms at `https://tinystudio.io/pricing` (the site's
+own clean canonical) rather than restating amounts, and G2 copy rules keep URLs
+and contact details out of the description, so this profile follows the same rule.
 
 ## Never on the profile
 
@@ -463,3 +464,163 @@ re-verifications: 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 2026-08-20, lane 1)
+
+Re-verified against the current `origin/main` head (d0daea9, "evidence(ai-search):
+controlled entity-and-offer re-run with first Found transitions (2026-08-15)
+(#227)") and the live site on 2026-08-20. Since the last re-verify (which
+measured `e9fc96a` after landing on 2026-08-14, the same commit the previous
+G2 re-verify section cites), 126 commits landed on main, of which 21
+modified files under `public/`. The ones that changed identity, offer,
+contact, price, or boundary strings this profile depends on are 76fe17b
+(Request-the-appraisal signup form in the `/pricing` closing callout,
+replacing a plain anchor), ed2b1a9 (appraisal-page canonicals and JSON-LD
+WebPage `@id`s pointed at the clean non-307 URLs on `/agents`, `/pricing`,
+`/specimen`), 23a7f06 (the pricing and brief-requested footers branded
+"TinyStudio" instead of "The Tiny Studio" in source), 9b0589a5 (brief-requested
+internal links pointed at the clean non-307 paths), c4475858 (the price-and-
+terms pointer in `llms.txt` and `offer.md` migrated to `https://tinystudio.io/pricing`
+along with the controlled-question URL list), ffc1672b (the new
+domain-valuation distinction paragraph appended to the conversion-audit
+boundary in `llms.txt` and `offer.md` — "Nor is the appraisal a domain-value
+estimate: no domain is priced and no resale value is estimated"), 798cd71a
+(the retired `/agent-desk` page now stops claiming the apex root as its
+canonical), 43cc831 (the daily-refreshed study figures refreshed to the
+2026-08-12 scan: 89→91 readable, 53→56 with no FAQ), 66f7bd6 (persistent
+programmatic `<label>` markup on the appraisal intake fields), dda25f2
+(truthful closed-intake response when the six-a-month cap is hit), and
+9f79c71 (the redirecting-spelling guard in `check-site`). The other public-
+touching commits (0e7373fe adding `autocomplete="email"`, 2d8599a4 keeping
+the hero mock in-viewport below 320px, a654ab49 landing the stranded
+2026-08-12 AI-search re-run PR #128) are semantic / layout changes that do
+not touch any boundary string. `git diff --stat e9fc96a..origin/main --
+public/llms.txt public/offer.md public/pricing.html public/audit.html
+public/index.html public/agents.html public/specimen.html
+public/brief-requested.html` shows 8 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 50
+deletions(-); the diffs are the clean-URL canonical/og:url/JSON-LD rewrites
+on `/agents`, `/pricing`, `/specimen`, the brief-requested internal-link
+rewrite, the controlled-question URL list and price-and-terms pointer in
+`llms.txt` and `offer.md` migrated to the clean canonical, the new
+domain-valuation distinction paragraph in `llms.txt` and `offer.md`, the
+intake-form `<label>` markup on `/` and `/audit`, the TinyStudio-branded
+footer text in source on `/pricing` and `/brief-requested` (live still
+serves "The Tiny Studio" — deployment lag; see check 2 below), the new
+signup form in the `/pricing` callout, the refreshed study figures
+(89→91 readable; 53→56 with no FAQ; numbers this profile never quotes), the
+retired `/agent-desk` clean canonical, and the `autocomplete="email"`
+attribute on the email input. None of the diffs alters the offer, the desk
+price, the audit pricing, the six-a-month cap, the human-review boundary,
+the no-client-work rule, or the contact email — every value in the table
+above still maps to live first-party text.
+
+One truthfulness fix landed in the base content this lane — matching the
+2026-08-15 fix the parallel Clutch handoff landed, and consistent with
+PR #218's clean-canonical migration: the two active references to the
+price-and-terms pointer now read `https://tinystudio.io/pricing` (the site's
+own clean canonical; `pricing.html` 307-redirects to it) instead of the
+legacy `https://tinystudio.io/pricing.html`. Historical re-verify sections
+were left untouched.
+
+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", the price-and-terms
+   pointer to `https://tinystudio.io/pricing`, the domain-value boundary
+   ("Nor is the appraisal a domain-value estimate: no domain is priced and
+   no resale value is estimated"), and the conversion-audit boundary
+   ("TinyStudio is not sold as a conversion audit service, so no conversion
+   lift is promised").
+2. Live `https://tinystudio.io/pricing` (clean URL; `pricing.html` 307-redirects
+   to it, 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 rate", "minimum project", or "project size" figure anywhere, so
+   those profile fields stay blank. The pricing footer text trails the
+   committed source: the source now reads "TinyStudio · tinystudio.io"
+   (PR #112 brand correction) while the served page still reads "The Tiny
+   Studio" — a deployment lag, not a product change. The served canonical
+   also trails the committed source — the live page declares
+   `https://tinystudio.io/pricing.html` while the source declares
+   `https://tinystudio.io/pricing` (a PR #218 deployment lag on this one
+   page) — so the handoff's pointer was updated to the canonical form
+   rather than the redirect target. Functionally both resolve to the same
+   page.
+3. Live `https://tinystudio.io/audit` (clean URL; 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 and the "Request the appraisal" intake CTA. The location and
+   clients fields stay empty. All five live surfaces (`/`, `/audit`,
+   `/pricing`, `llms.txt`, `offer.md`) carry every string this profile
+   depends on; the served bytes trail the committed source on a handful of
+   cosmetic lines (study numbers, intake-form label markup, clean-URL
+   canonical rewrites on `/agents`, `/pricing`, `/specimen`) that do not
+   affect any value in the table above. The deployment lag does not weaken
+   the profile — every claim maps cleanly to the committed source the next
+   deploy will pick up.
+4. The official G2 pages were re-fetched 2026-08-20 (plain HTTP) and still
+   document the flow and rules this handoff relies on:
+   - `https://sell.g2.com/create-a-profile` still says the submitted product
+     or service "will be conditionally approved", the G2 research team
+     "verifies your product or service—in about 3-5 business days—before
+     placing it in the right category", "your profile is live on our site
+     and ready to be claimed", the claim request is reviewed "for final
+     approval within 1-3 business days", and "You can claim your profile for
+     free"; its "Add your product/service" link still opens
+     `https://www.g2.com/products/new`.
+   - `https://www.g2digitalmarkets.com/listing-guidelines` (still "Last
+     updated on May 4, 2026") still requires the offer to be "publicly
+     available, with a call to action that highlights an offer on sale to
+     the public", still states "we do not list custom-made/bespoke
+     software", still requires the listing "under the product or service
+     name on the Vendor's website", and still carries the copy rules the
+     table obeys: no first-person point of view ("e.g., we, our, us"), no
+     calls to action, no "phone, email, fax, URL" inside the description, no
+     superlatives or comparative language ("e.g., best, most, fastest"), no
+     suffixes in the company name ("e.g., no Inc, Corporation, LLC, etc."),
+     and "the final copy is subject to the discretion of our content team".
+   - `https://research.g2.com/methodology/research-faq` still says "Service
+     providers are represented with one profile per vendor" and still advises
+     first checking that the product or company is not "already listed on G2
+     under a different name".
+5. No G2 receipt exists in the product state (no G2 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. The
+   external search baseline was not re-run this lane (public search endpoints
+   have blocked scripted queries from the VPS in previous lanes), 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: `node scripts/check-site.mjs`
+   ("TinyStudio.io checks passed") and the full
+   `node --test scripts/test-*.mjs` suite — 128 tests across 9 suites
+   (headings, sitemap, worker, ui, contract, study, viewport, narrow-pages,
+   narrow) — all green, exit 0.
+
+Two truthfulness-relevant additions since the last re-verify, both
+reinforcing rather than weakening the handoff: the daily-refreshed study
+guard (43cc831) anchors the homepage /audit figures to the freshest
+published scan and prevents serving stale numbers — consistent with the
+profile's no-fabrication rule; and the truthful closed-intake response
+(dda25f2, rebase of #116) makes the six-a-month cap an explicit, plain
+reply at the API rather than a silent drop, so any future G2 profile copy
+that mentions intake state stays honest about it. Neither change alters
+any value in the table above.
+
+Same result as the 2026-08-09 preparation and the 2026-08-11, 2026-08-12,
+and 2026-08-14 re-verifications: 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 with the canonical price
+pointer corrected.