Phase 1: content source of truth — 40 documents across six areas

Satisfies the Phase 1 Definition of Done:

- content/ validates cleanly against the frozen schema. `make validate`
  reports OK: 40 document(s) validated, 0 violations.
- Six areas exist, each with an L1 entry: ai-overview, platform-overview,
  edge-overview, products-overview, history-overview, about-overview.
- All six areas have an L2 entry: ai-systems, platform-estate, edge-fleet,
  products-business, history-engagements, about-narrative.
- 28 L3 artefact stubs under content/<area>/l3/. Every artefacts[].url in
  every document resolves to one of them; the validator proves there are no
  dangling references (and a deliberately broken copy exits 1).
- Every metric value traces to a source line in the evidence notes or the
  approved metric set in reference/content-map.md (per-metric citations are
  recorded in the AUD-131 completion comment).
- Every document carries confidence and last_verified=2026-10-26; the
  validator rejects a missing or non-canonical value.
- docs/content-redaction.md records the redaction pass: identifiers, third
  party personal data, credentials and infrastructure detail excluded, with
  reasons, plus the two numbers that are reported rather than smoothed.

Honesty positions held: 3 businesses active (12 adoptions over time),
Where-Woof deployed and pre-market, failures kept in (edge-failures), no
promotion of in-progress work to delivered.

No site code, no templates, no CSS, no rendering (Phase 2).
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id: products-signage
area: products
level: 3
title: "Artefact — Commercial signage on commodity hardware"
claim: "A digital signage platform built as market disruption — any HDMI screen · a small player · fleet control of power · rotation · layout and playback · sold to twelve businesses over time."
confidence: delivered
period: "2014–"
tech: [Raspberry Pi, ESP32, HDMI-CEC, JavaScript, three.js, FFmpeg, Python]
metrics: [{label: "businesses currently running the product", value: 3}, {label: "adoptions over time", value: 12}]
artefacts: []
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [products, signage, artefact]
---
# Artefact — Commercial signage on commodity hardware
**Status: delivered, with a rebuild in progress.** The product shipped and customers still run it. The rebuild on the current stack is not finished and is labelled as unfinished everywhere it is mentioned.
## What the artefact is
The product in use: a player on commodity hardware — a small Raspberry Pi or a microcontroller class device — driving any HDMI screen, with fleet control from the platform: switch screens on and off, rotate, mirror, lay out multiple screens, coordinate boards, and synchronise playback across a site. Content is built by the customer from complex animation down to a simple image rotation, and the system adapts to the board it finds rather than demanding a specification.
## What it proves
The commercial read: a market was overpriced, the substitute was built on commodity hardware, and it was sold and operated for years. Twelve adoptions over time, three businesses still running. That is a product, not a project.
## Limits stated on the page
Twelve is cumulative adoption and three is the current count — the distinction is kept because inflating it would be the easiest lie on this site. The rebuild is in progress. No revenue figures or customer names beyond type of business are published.
## When it is delivered
Phase 7 for screenshots and a demonstration recording, captured from the running product. The one-liners for reference customers are approved for the salon and the financial services business only.