docs(commercial): one source of truth for the money — prices, entitlement, channels
The commercial plan was spread over five documents written in five different weeks, and they contradicted each other: product.md sold the Store, decisions.md called the Store dead then re-opened, Distribution.md (736 lines) still described Polar as a download host, MARCOM.md quoted "no subscription" next to a paid tier, and README.md promised "free forever". An outsider could not tell what ships. docs/ai/commercial.md is now the only place money is decided: free = whole app at a 921,600 px / 30 fps output profile covering the recording as well as the stream; Pro = $10/mo or $400 lifetime through Polar, key bound to the buyer's YouTube channel ID via a claim page, 2 activations, 7–14 day lease with offline grace, fail closed, never downgrade a running stream; one portable zip + winget primary, Steam and the Store parked; Azure Trusted Signing (~$9.99/mo), no EV; Founding 200 promo; ~$135/yr costs; anti-piracy posture and what is permanently rejected. Everything else now points at it instead of restating it: - product.md — money sections replaced with pointers; packaging rewritten to winget-first, Store parked; signing updated to Trusted Signing. - decisions.md — graveyard with cause of death for free-forever, the Store ordering, the updater, and the 2026-10-30 reversal of the quality-ceiling rejection. - Distribution.md — rewritten to release mechanics only (artifact, GitHub Releases, winget manifest, signing, checklist, takedown): 736 → 120 lines. - TASKS.md — TASK 54 rewritten, TASK 48's route settled, TASK 10 superseded, five new rows (entitlement seam, output-profile gate, licence UI, system messages, packaging). - README.md — "free forever" replaced with the real split. - capture.md — obs-backgroundremoval is GPL-3.0 and so licence-INCOMPATIBLE since the proprietary EULA; the old "compatible" line was falsified by that change. - TASKS/task-10, task-48, task-51, task-54 — superseded-banner at the top of each, so none of them reads as current policy. - HANDOFF.md — rewritten: plan settled, next code unit is the entitlement seam. MARCOM.md and MONETIZATION.md (gitignored) were corrected in place: policy pointer at the top of each, the flash removed from every live claim, the Polar fee break-even corrected to ~$900/mo, and the projections flagged as written against a dead model.
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# TASK 48 — Distribution & packaging: route decision, MSIX, signing
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> ⛔ **THE ROUTE IN THIS FILE IS SUPERSEDED — 2026-10-31.** Distribution is **direct download from
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> `llamacasty.com` (GitHub Releases) + winget primary**; **Steam and the Microsoft Store are parked**,
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> third and fourth. Store IAP is not the billing path — **Polar** is, and the paid delta is output
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> quality. Live policy: [`docs/ai/commercial.md`](../docs/ai/commercial.md); mechanics:
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> [`Distribution.md`](../Distribution.md); cause of death: [`docs/ai/decisions.md`](../docs/ai/decisions.md).
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> The MSIX build steps below are still accurate and remain the parked Store channel's artifact.
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> Catalog: [`TASKS.md`](../TASKS.md) — status and requirements live here.
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> **Research: [`TASKS/research-store-certification.md`](research-store-certification.md)** — the "why".
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> Carved out of TASK 36 item 6 (release engineering) on 2026-09-27 so distribution has one
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