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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 - TASKS.md — TASK 54 rewritten, TASK 48's route settled, TASK 10 superseded, five new rows (entitlement seam, output-profile gate, licence UI, system messages, packaging).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 - TASKS/task-10, task-48, task-51, task-54 — superseded-banner at the top of each, so none of them reads as current policy.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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# HANDOFF — 2026-10-31 (commercial plan settled in docs; next code unit is the entitlement seam)
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## State
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- Branch `main`. Pushed through `c72b61b`; **`90d5140` + this commit are local only** (push at a
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checkpoint, not per commit).
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- **Commercial plan is settled and written down**: freemium (free = whole app at a 921,600 px /
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30 fps profile, stream **and** recording), Pro = $10/mo or $400 lifetime through **Polar** (key
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bound to the buyer's YouTube channel ID via a claim page, 2 activations, 7–14 day lease), one
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portable zip + **winget** as the primary channel, **Steam and the Store parked**, Azure Trusted
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Signing, Founding 200 promo. New single source of truth: [`docs/ai/commercial.md`](docs/ai/commercial.md).
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- Docs consolidated this unit: `product.md` (money section → pointer), `decisions.md` (banners +
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history), `index.md`, `ai.md`, `README.md`, `Distribution.md` (rewritten to release mechanics,
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736 → 120 lines), `TASKS.md` (five new rows), `capture.md` (GPL line falsified by the proprietary
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EULA), plus gitignored `MARCOM.md` / `MONETIZATION.md`. Site repo: `AGENTS.md`, `README.md`,
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`build-this.md`.
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- Scoreboard: built, unchanged from the last handoff (HTTP providers + goal inputs still missing).
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## Next action
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1. **Entitlement seam** — `IEntitlement` over Polar activate/validate/deactivate, channel-ID match,
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2 activations, lease + offline grace, `--activate LCYT-…` CLI, fail closed. One Good Dog test.
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2. Then the **OutputProfile gate** (one profile consumed by both the stream encoder and the
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recorder; greyed tier entries; never downgrade mid-stream), the licence UI, and system messages.
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3. Scoreboard HTTP providers + goal inputs whenever the creator queues them.
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## Landmines
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- **Nothing may gate a feature.** The only paid delta is the output profile. `ShowBrandFlash` stays
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`false` and entitlement must never enable it.
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- **The site publishes the model, never the numbers** — and its CTA ("Coming soon to the Microsoft
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Store") stays until the creator says the download exists.
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- **No self-updater, by policy**: `winget upgrade` + a version banner. `StorePackagingTests` asserts it.
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- Pre-existing: the **full test suite hangs** (WASAPI teardown). Per-class runs are the way.
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- Not every hex is a theme colour — `BorderColorPalette`/chat defaults are USER DATA; on-stream
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graphics come from `OutputPalette`. A red settings control is still a bug.
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