Notes from the build floor.

What the studio's own instruments actually found, in the studio's own words — no client work, no marketing claims, just the receipts from building and gating this site.

2026-08-06

What a gate actually measures

Eighteen deterministic checks, two real findings, and the difference between an instrument refusing to run and an instrument reporting something we didn't want to hear.

2026-08-06

The cold-start beacon bug

Our own first-party analytics beacon lost data on the very first page load, every time — a race condition our launch calibration caught before a single real visitor hit it.