Session Handoff — Amplif-AI website cinematic 3D redesign (branch, not yet shipped)

Where it started

Session began with /prime + a pasted handoff (site live at amplifaiyourbusiness.com). Sondra then pivoted to a cinematic 3D design layer for that site: SHE wanted the site to stand out completely, Fable to have full design liberties, design DNA from her BraveBrand intelligence reports, her own photo as the 3D centerpiece, and zero "vibe-coded" telltale signs (per a YouTube video she shared). The old Base44 site (amplif-ai-skool.base44.app) is explicitly BANNED as a reference — design and copy. "AI Visibility Activator" is retired brand language.

Decisions locked + what shipped

• "AI Visibility Activator" retired everywhere — edited c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\context\business-info.md (2 spots), context\content-strategy.md, context\personal-info.md (2 spots). Live site already said "AI creator and educator."
• amplifyyourbusiness.com (typo domain) NOT available — question closed in Sondra Brain\wiki\memory\open-questions.md.
• CEO Dashboard stale "Next: custom domain" line fixed in ceo-dashboard\site\my-projects.html + deployed to Cloudflare Pages.
• Design prompt written: c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\DIGITAL HOME V1\fable-design-prompt-2026-07-03.md — then executed in-session on her "go".
• Full redesign on branch design/cinematic-3d in PROJECTS\DIGITAL HOME V1\Digital_home_frontend_starter\ (3 commits: 3e1164f, ad76f0e, 9c988c4). Main branch and live site UNTOUCHED. Design system: ink-navy void #06070E / cream #F5F2E9 / hot pink #FF2E88, Anton display font (.display-type class — NOT font-display, that name collides with Tailwind v4 theme utilities), GSAP + Lenis (new deps), film grain, .headline-rule pink edge-bar, .card-k hover cards.
• Hero: her cutout portrait (public/sondra-hero.webp, 82KB, made via rembg from _INBOX-DROP-FILES-HERE\me badass.png) center stage; giant type behind her; hand-built canvas particle engine split across TWO canvases so dust orbits in front of AND behind her; scroll dissolves type into the engine; deep-navy glows (not flat black); vertical edge signature "Sondra Verva · AI Creator & Educator".
• Anti-AI-fingerprint pass (from video transcript, saved at scratchpad telltale-transcript.txt): ALL eyebrow kicker labels removed site-wide; starter-template copy killed (blog article footer CTA, blog placeholders → her taglines); unused StarterNotice.tsx deleted; all CTAs pink incl. contact form + cookie banner.
• Copy changes she sanctioned: "Meet The Amplif-AI Visibility Architect" → "Meet Amplif-AI Your Business" (+2 similar); hero copy otherwise verbatim from live site.
• Verified: all 5 routes 200 on production build; mobile 390px no overflow, ~51fps; Lighthouse (prod build): desktop 100/100/96/100, mobile perf 90 (LCP 3.5s simulated slow 4G — accepted, most cinematic sites score 40-60).
• rembg + onnxruntime installed (pip, one-time; u2net model cached at C:\Users\srver\.u2net\).

Key files for next session

• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\DIGITAL HOME V1\Digital_home_frontend_starter\src\components\motion\CinematicHero.tsx — the hero + particle engine (all hero tuning happens here)
• ...\Digital_home_frontend_starter\src\app\globals.css — design tokens + display-type/headline-rule/card-k
• ...\Digital_home_frontend_starter\src\components\motion\ScrollFX.tsx — site-wide reveals/counters (mounted in src\app\layout.tsx, route-aware)
• c:\Users\srver\AIOS-Workspace\aios-starter-kit\PROJECTS\DIGITAL HOME V1\fable-design-prompt-2026-07-03.md — the design brief that governed the build
• Plan file: none (prompt file above served as the plan)
• Memory files touched: none

Running state

• Background processes: dev server task bptztcxu3 (npm run dev -- -p 3021 in the frontend repo). Kill: netstat -ano | grep :3021 → taskkill //PID <pid> //F. Port 3022 prod server already stopped.
• Dev servers / ports: http://localhost:3021 (dev preview of the branch, running for Sondra's review)
• Open worktrees / branches: frontend repo checked out on design/cinematic-3d (3 commits ahead of main, not pushed)

Verification — how to confirm things still work

• cd "PROJECTS/DIGITAL HOME V1/Digital_home_frontend_starter" && npx next build — expect "✓ Compiled successfully"
• curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:3021/ (and /about /services /contact /blog) — expect 200 each
• git -C "PROJECTS/DIGITAL HOME V1/Digital_home_frontend_starter" log --oneline -3 — expect 9c988c4 / ad76f0e / 3e1164f on design/cinematic-3d
• Live site sanity (should be UNCHANGED): curl -s -I https://amplifaiyourbusiness.com/ | grep -i x-opennext — expect x-opennext: 1

Deferred + open questions

• Open: ship decision — Sondra has NOT said "ship it". Shipping = merge design/cinematic-3d → main (auto-deploys via Cloudflare), then re-verify live domain. Do not merge without her explicit go.
• Deferred: SEO canonical fix — NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL still = digital-home-sondra.srverva.workers.dev (in wrangler.jsonc vars + .env.local); fold into the ship-it deploy.
• Deferred: wiki Sondra Brain\wiki\dashboard.md Digital Home row not yet updated with this session's redesign state.
• Deferred: newsletter-forge.skill still unprocessed in _INBOX-DROP-FILES-HERE\new skills to add\.
• Deferred: temp verification screenshots (hero-.jpeg, page-.jpeg, sections-view.jpeg, amplif-ai-skool-base44-full.jpeg) sitting in workspace root — delete when convenient.
• Deferred: queue first blog topic so the article engine writes (pipeline healthy, calendar empty; carried from prior session).
• Open: mobile Lighthouse 90 accepted — if she wants higher, next knobs are font subsetting + shorter entrance animation.

Pick up here

Sondra reviews http://localhost:3021 (all 5 pages). If she says "ship it": merge the branch to main, include the canonical-URL fix in the same push, verify live at amplifaiyourbusiness.com, update wiki dashboard row. If she wants tweaks: they're almost certainly in CinematicHero.tsx.