The quota and the capability used to contradict each other. An Ascensus
member was allowed 3 page builds a month, but every build overwrote the same
file — so they could build three times and never have more than one page. The
slug plumbing to do better already existed and was only exposed at level 6,
which made the Funnel Factory's differentiator a COUNT rather than a KIND, the
same flaw the upper tiers had.
Now: hold caps by level (2 at Ascensus rising to 50 at Corona), separate from
the monthly build quota. Rebuilding spends a build but needs no hold room;
adding a new page needs both. The Page Builder is a list of your pages with
view / copy link / rebuild / delete, plus a form that ADDS one instead of
silently replacing what you had.
Two things kept deliberately fixed. The first page a member builds stays at
/p/<id> forever and cannot be deleted — that address ends up on banners,
printed flyers and in people's DMs, so it must never move. Extra pages take a
slug from the headline the writer produced, de-duplicated, so the address
describes the page without anyone having to invent one.
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Marty asked why they start muted. Browsers only permit autoplay when a video
is muted, so "expand and play" necessarily meant "expand and play silently" —
and for these that is the wrong trade, because the narration IS the training.
A member's first visit was showing them a silent walkthrough.
So the panel now opens paused with the play button showing. Pressing it is a
user gesture, which means it plays with sound, every time. preload stays
'none' until the panel opens, then goes to 'metadata' so an open panel shows
a real first frame instead of a black rectangle.
Each bar now also carries its runtime ("· 71 sec"), so nobody has to guess
whether they are committing to one minute or ten.
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Twelve narrated walkthroughs, one per Suite tool, in Marty's cloned voice.
No screen recording involved: Playwright drives and records the real UI,
ElevenLabs narrates, ffmpeg muxes. Pipeline lives outside this repo at
../video-pipeline.
Placement (Marty's call): TOP of each tool page but COLLAPSED — a one-line
"Watch the walkthrough" bar that auto-opens on a member's first visit to that
specific tool and stays shut after. A video in a separate library never gets
watched; an embedded player pushes the tool below the fold on mobile for every
returning member. First-visit autoplay is muted, so it is never a surprise
noise, and every localStorage access is guarded because it throws outright in
private windows.
Served from the data volume via /tv/<slug>.mp4, NOT from public/. That
directory is already 199MB and another 33MB of MP4 would ride along on every
deploy forever; this way a video can also be re-cut and dropped in without a
rebuild. The route implements HTTP range requests — without them the scrub bar
renders but cannot seek, which looks broken in a way people rarely report.
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