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Techstars Startup Weekend Salisbury (Rommel Center) (rommel-center-2026)

Repo salisbury-university/rommel-center-2026 · Origin buildout · Owner dan@d3corp.com · Reference coastal-hospice-2026

complete — toward launch-ready

0/30

dimensions green

0/18

buildout gates

0/1

page fidelity

open P0

0/4

client axis · design · forms · content · sign-off

agent steps open

human actions

— builder drives the loop; the referee adjudicates fidelity in a separate fresh session

INTAKE

EXTRACT

ASSEMBLE

QA_LOOP

STAGING

AUDIT

LIVE

REFINE

Build & audit spec

Paste images or drop files anywhere ↑ — added as references your local agent resolves.

Design flats — siteupdates.com

No siteupdates.com project matched this build (tried the build id, repo, display name and year-stripped variants).

Client axis: the 4 things a client judges on

❌ design: Matches the approved design on every contracted route (referee-adjudicated, staging)
1/1 route(s) not referee-passed on staging: page.home

❌ forms: Every form is real, routes to a real inbox, and was proven on staging
dimension 19 (Forms) not green on staging: post /agent/<id>/form-config with the GF + SMTP inventory

❌ content: Zero placeholder copy, em-dashes or dead CTAs on any published route
no fresh slipway content scan: run Verify on the build page

❌ signoff: Finish sign-off recorded by the owner (client-axis review done)
owner finish sign-off not recorded

, you reviewed staging the way the client will: design incl. photography, forms, every word, finished feel

Evidence comes from the referee (design), dimension 19 + slipway's form scan (forms), slipway's content scan (content): run Verify to refresh scans: and the owner (sign-off). An essential is never deferred.

Action required

No action required right now.

Gate board — 30 dimensions

not launch-readysystem 0/26project 0/4

Green dimensions are collapsed; anything incomplete is expanded. Launch-ready = all 30 dimensions green, verified on staging (local-only greens don't count), 0 open P0, AND the four client-axis essentials (design match · working forms · real content · owner sign-off): a query, not a call.

system tier · 0/26 green

standards

○ 2. Theme infrastructure (0/13)buildout-verify

○ CPT body editor support ('editor' in supports)

○ Nav menus assigned + populated in wp-admin

○ Customizer integration (logo/accent/footer/social)

○ Widget areas registered (Footer 1-4 + Blog Sidebar)

○ Image sizes registered (add_image_size crops)

○ Theme supports flags complete

○ Pretty CPT taxonomy permalinks

○ Archive pagination present

○ Office addresses in Theme Options

○ FAQ in ACF repeater / FAQ CPT

○ Personnel order via menu_order

○ Footer attribution in Theme Options

– House stack conformance: the stack the web team finishes + maintains in — opt in via spec.stack_profile (e.g. d3-house-2026)

↪ /buildout Phase 14.5 — theme infrastructure defaults

○ 3. Asset hygiene (0/1)asset-validate

○ Image artifact pre-flight scan (asset-validate.py)

↪ /buildout Phase 5 + _tools/asset-validate.py

○ 5. Schema / structured data (0/1)schema-validate

○ JSON-LD complete + valid on every route

↪ /buildout Phase 14 — inc/seo-schema.php + _tools/schema-validate.py

○ 6. Accessibility (ADA) (0/8)audit

○ Skip link present + functional

○ Image alt text complete

○ Color contrast AA (4.5:1 / 3:1)

○ Keyboard navigable (no traps)

○ Visible focus order

○ ARIA landmarks + labels

○ Form fields labelled

○ Heading hierarchy (no skips)

↪ /audit Phase 7 — WCAG 2.2 AA + Section 508 + ADA Title III

○ 7. Performance (0/6)audit

○ LCP < 2.5s

○ INP < 200ms

○ CLS < 0.1

○ Page weight budget

○ Render-blocking resources

○ Image lazy-load + sizing

↪ /audit Phase 8 — Lighthouse + Core Web Vitals + page weight

○ 8. SEO technical (0/6)audit

○ robots.txt correct

○ XML sitemap valid

○ Canonical tags

○ Redirects (no chains/loops)

○ Mobile-friendly

○ HTTPS enforced

↪ /audit Phase 9 — technical SEO

○ 9. SEO on-page (0/6)audit

○ Title tags unique + lengthed

○ Meta descriptions

○ Heading structure

○ Image alt for SEO

○ Internal linking

○ E-E-A-T signals

↪ /audit Phase 9 — on-page SEO

○ 10. AEO / AIO (0/5)audit

○ llms.txt present

○ AI-crawler stance (robots)

○ FAQ schema on /faq/

○ Direct-answer formatting

○ Topic clusters / entity coverage

↪ /audit Phase 10 — answer-engine / LLM readiness

○ 12. Security posture (0/6)audit

○ TLS valid (not expiring <30d)

○ WP version not exposed

○ Login / brute-force hardened

○ XML-RPC disabled

○ REST user-enum blocked

○ 2FA available

↪ /audit Phase 11 — WP hardening

○ 13. Privacy & compliance (0/5)audit

○ Cookie consent (EU)

○ Privacy policy present

○ CCPA notice

○ DSAR process

○ No PII leaks via REST

↪ /audit Phase 12 — GDPR / CCPA

○ 14. Mobile / responsive (0/5)audit

○ Viewport meta

○ iOS 16px input (no zoom)

○ Touch targets >= 44px

○ No overflow-x

○ Hamburger nav works

↪ /audit Phase 13 — responsive

○ 15. Cross-browser (0/5)audit

○ Chrome

○ Firefox

○ Safari

○ Edge

○ iOS Safari

↪ /audit Phase 13 — cross-browser smoke

○ 18. i18n / l10n (0/4)audit

○ Strings translation-ready

○ lang attributes

○ hreflang (if multi-locale)

○ RTL handling (if needed)

↪ /audit Phase 15 — internationalization

○ 19. Forms (0/6)audit

○ Gravity Forms configured

○ SMTP sending

○ Honeypot / spam

○ Validation

○ Accessibility

○ Deliverability

↪ /audit Phase 16 — forms

○ 22. Code quality (0/6)audit

○ WPCS / PHPCS clean

○ ESLint clean

○ Stylelint clean

○ No console.log

○ No PHP warnings

○ No dead code

↪ /audit Phase 19 — code

○ 23. Database (0/5)audit

○ Autoload bloat

○ Post-type hygiene

○ No orphan meta

○ Object cache

○ No slow queries

↪ /audit Phase 20 — database

○ 27. Editor experience (0/5)audit

○ Customizer organized

○ Theme Options organized

○ ACF field-group organization

○ Role config

○ Image library tidy

↪ /audit Phase 23 — editor XP

○ 28. Documentation (0/4)audit

○ README

○ CHANGELOG

○ Code comments

○ Client editor guide

↪ /audit Phase 24 — docs

○ 30. UX states + microinteractions (0/7)audit

○ Focus states

○ Hover states

○ Loading states

○ Empty states

○ Error states

○ Success states

○ prefers-reduced-motion

↪ /audit Phase 26 — UX states

infra

○ 11. Security headers (0/6)audit

○ HSTS

○ Content-Security-Policy

○ X-Frame-Options

○ X-Content-Type-Options

○ Referrer-Policy

○ Permissions-Policy

↪ /audit Phase 11 — ingress security headers (set at Traefik/ingress, not theme)

○ 20. Media / CDN (0/6)audit

○ S3 offload (AS3CF)

○ CloudFront serving

○ WebP / AVIF

○ Lazy-load

○ Aspect ratios

○ No artifacts

↪ /audit Phase 17 — media pipeline

○ 21. Email deliverability (0/4)audit

○ SPF

○ DKIM

○ DMARC

○ From-address consistency

↪ /audit Phase 18 — email DNS

○ 24. Infrastructure (0/7)audit

○ EKS pod healthy

○ EFS mounts

○ DNS at NLB (public + private zones)

○ SSL not expiring <30d

○ CloudFront

○ WAF

○ Backups configured

↪ /audit Phase 21 — EKS platform

○ 25. Analytics (0/5)audit

○ GA4 installed

○ Search Console verified

○ Tag Manager

○ Conversions tracked

○ Heatmap (if used)

↪ /audit Phase 22 — analytics

○ 26. Monitoring (0/4)audit

○ StatusCake uptime

○ Grafana dashboards

○ Slack alerts

○ Uptime SLA

↪ /audit Phase 22 — monitoring

○ 29. Build / Deploy (0/4)audit

○ GitLab CI green

○ Branch strategy (stable/main)

○ Env separation

○ Rollback path

↪ /audit Phase 25 — CI / CD

project tier · 0/4 green

spec

○ 1. Editorial workflow (0/3)buildout-verify

○ Editorial smoke test — wp-admin edit renders on front-end

○ ACF schema parity — every layout has a module template

○ No hardcoded page-*.php with literal copy

↪ /buildout Phase 3 — core patterns + editorial smoke test

○ 4. Visual fidelity (0/2)screenshot-diff

○ No silent visual regression (screenshot diff 375/768/1440)

○ Fidelity vs design — Home

↪ /buildout Phase 3.5 + _tools/screenshot-diff.py + per-route contracts

○ 16. Content quality (0/4)audit

○ No Lorem / Sample Page

○ No em-dashes / AI-tells / triplets

○ Content depth vs spec

○ Freshness / dates

↪ /audit Phase 14 — content

○ 17. Brand consistency (0/5)audit

○ Logo correct

○ Colors match brand

○ Typography match

○ Spacing / layout system

○ Voice + tone

↪ /audit Phase 14 — brand

Live site: post-launch reconcile

, fingerprints production and diffs it against this build

Never reconciled. Every 2026 pilot launched as a different build than the one this board graded: run this after every cutover.

Audit

P0 0 · P1 0 · P2 0 · P3 0 — open P0 (gates LIVE): 0

Velocity vs target

QA passes	0	target 1
Fix-commit ratio	—	target 0.15
Gate-pass first run	—
Grade	—	target A-

Artifacts

Staging https://rommel-center-2026.salisbury-university.staging.d3corp.com ↗ (basic-auth d3:d3)

Repo salisbury-university/rommel-center-2026 ↗

Deploy config deploy-config/salisbury-university/rommel-center-2026 ↗

Build theme rommel-center-2026 · container salisbury-university_rommel-center-2026_stable · reference coastal-hospice-2026

Design source figma → djbSbW7AM1o9QkA2lbvriT#1:2

Spec'd pages 1: Home

Screenshot triptychs (375/768/1440), stored audit PDFs, and the see.run proof pane need the S3 artifact layer — a later pass.

Open punch-list

[todo] Report current gate status next → agent:buildout

Events

Aug 15 · 16:51stagedan

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