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docs(commercial): the claim page was never needed, signing waits for revenue, and support is a filter

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Four things derived this session superseded what the plan said twenty-four hours earlier,
and the docs are corrected where each one died:

**Licensing needs no server.** Polar's customer-portal endpoints authenticate on the key
itself plus the public organization_id; the org access token is only needed to create
products. Channel binding rides in `conditions: {channel_id}`, re-checked on every
validate — so the "claim page" (a hosted OAuth flow that wrote the UC id onto the key)
and the key database it implied are deleted. Device management, key rotation and
subscription auto-revocation are Polar's; four states, one lease, no callback endpoint.

**Signing is deferred until two subscribers.** It never removes the day-one SmartScreen
warning (EV's instant-bypass died in 2024), so buying it before revenue buys only the
publisher line. Renamed to Azure Artifact Signing, $9.99/mo Basic, and it requires a
paid Azure subscription. Year-one fixed cost drops from ~$135 to ~$15.

**The Store account is free.** Microsoft waived the $19 individual fee and removed the
$99 company fee in May 2026, which makes the Store the only zero-cost route to a
Microsoft-signed install — the free answer to SmartScreen, noted beside the paid one.

**Support is a filter, not a promise.** Email, best effort, no SLA, refunds on request
without argument; no training service, no helpdesk. A repeated question becomes a
training video on @llamacasty, which is content and monetization instead of a ticket.
GitHub issues on the releases repo are the deliberate friction.

Also settled: binaries live in a second Gitea repo (`llamacasty-releases`) push-mirrored
to a public GitHub repo — issues and assets public, code private, one publish direction
(a git mirror carries refs, not GitHub Release assets); `@llamacasty` is
standard-verified with intermediate features, so live streaming, >15 min uploads and
custom thumbnails work today and no SIM or ID is needed; and OAuth comes out of Testing
mode by publishing the app (100-user lifetime cap, no 7-day token death).

TASKS.md now opens with the four-day surge slice — artifact shape, output gate,
entitlement seam, real-machine day — because those are what the first public release
waits on. HANDOFF.md rewritten. MyMistakes.md gains the Polar recipe and the
"verify means three different things" entry. MARCOM.md gains the support→content loop
and the surface roles.
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## Next up
**TASK 3·17 — the Text layer.** The `TextOverlay` source type exists as a placeholder and nothing
else does: `AddSource` creates it 0×0, all four compositor paths `continue` past it, `FramePump`'s
hash skips it, it is not draggable, and it has no text/font/colour properties or persistence.
The unit: text content, font family/size/weight/style, colour, alignment, drag/resize, persisted;
renderer mirrors `Services/ChatBoxRenderer.cs`. One Good Dog test.
**The surge week (4 days, in this order).** Not every row below — this slice only, because it is
what the first public release is waiting on:
1. **Artifact shape** — `LlamaCasty.exe` rename (three pack URIs), `scripts/publish.sh`,
portable mode. Ends with a zip that runs on a clean machine.
2. **OutputProfile gate** — ≤921,600 px / ≤30 fps for the stream **and** the recorder, greyed tier
entries, plus the TASK 53 geometry tests that pin every tier.
3. **Entitlement seam** — `IEntitlement` against Polar's customer-portal API with a fake for tests,
`--activate` parsing, system messages.
4. **Real-machine day** — licence UI skeleton, a clean-profile install, a test broadcast.
Detail: [`commercial.md`](docs/ai/commercial.md) → Output profile / Entitlement;
[`Distribution.md`](Distribution.md). Day 5, if the four go well: the visibility picker (a hard
prerequisite for any *public* build).
**TASK 3·17 — the Text layer** stays the first product row after the surge. The `TextOverlay` source
type exists as a placeholder and nothing else does: `AddSource` creates it 0×0, all four compositor
paths `continue` past it, `FramePump`'s hash skips it, it is not draggable, and it has no
text/font/colour properties or persistence. The unit: text content, font family/size/weight/style,
colour, alignment, drag/resize, persisted; renderer mirrors `Services/ChatBoxRenderer.cs`. One Good
Dog test.
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| 50 | ☐ | One-button publish of the local recording (resumable upload) | [`task-50`](TASKS/task-50-publish-recording.md) |
| 53 | ☐ | Output-format contract: pin every tier with a geometry test, prove 9:16 end-to-end, recorded file matches output | [`task-53`](TASKS/task-53-output-formats.md) |
| 54 | 🔶 | Freemium: EULA + privacy shipped; **no licence path built** — needs the entitlement seam, the output-profile cap and the licence UI below; site copy still says free forever | [`task-54`](TASKS/task-54-marcom-free-merch.md) |
| — | ☐ | **Entitlement seam** — `IEntitlement` over Polar activate/validate/deactivate, channel-ID match, 2 activations, 7–14 day lease, `--activate` CLI | [`commercial`](docs/ai/commercial.md) |
| — | ☐ | **Entitlement seam** — `IEntitlement` over Polar's customer-portal API (org ID public, org token never in the app), `conditions: {channel_id}`, 2 activations, 7–14 day lease, `--activate` CLI. **No claim page, no server** | [`commercial`](docs/ai/commercial.md) |
| — | ☐ | **OutputProfile gate** — ≤921,600 px / ≤30 fps for stream **and** recording, greyed tier entries, live re-resolve, never mid-stream | [`commercial`](docs/ai/commercial.md) |
| — | ☐ | **Licence UI** — claim page, four states, 7/1/0-day notices, portal link, licence ID in About | [`commercial`](docs/ai/commercial.md) |
| — | ☐ | **Licence UI** — key entry + four states, 7/1/0-day notices, portal link, licence ID in About | [`commercial`](docs/ai/commercial.md) |
| — | ☐ | **System messages** — `SystemMessage` + `MessageCenter`, strip above the dock, dedupe by key, short history, never composited | [`ui-surface`](docs/ai/ui-surface.md) |
| — | ☐ | **Packaging** — portable zip, GitHub Release, winget manifest, Azure Trusted Signing | [`Distribution.md`](Distribution.md) |
| — | ☐ | **Packaging** — rename, `scripts/publish.sh`, portable mode; then `llamacasty-releases` repo + Gitea→GitHub push mirror, `gh release create`, winget manifest. Signing **deferred** until two subscribers | [`Distribution.md`](Distribution.md) |
| — | ☐ | **Training-video series** — capture the first 8–10 recurring questions as videos on `@llamacasty`; each is documentation, channel content and monetization at once | MARCOM → support→content loop |
| 9·5 | ☐ | Webcam identity key reconciliation | [`task-09`](TASKS/task-09-live-stream-management.md) |
| 14 | 🔶 | Creator feedback batch — branch 3+ | [`task-14`](TASKS/task-14-creator-feedback-batch.md) |
| — | ☐ | Small: `StreamConfig` defaults (`TargetBitrate=6000`, `1920x1080`) are stale — the dropdown drives `StreamHealth` | this line |