site: cut the template's own labels out of the pages

Point 7 of the page-wording review. The pages no longer show their data
structure as headings, and they no longer explain their own conventions.

- Level 1 is one screen: claim, status badge, three figures, the technology
  row, and one sentence carrying one link. Measured in headless Chrome at
  1440x900: 1404-1845 px tall before, exactly 900 px (no scroll) after, on
  all six area pages.
- DocPage: no kicker line, no visible level label, no "Evidence for this
  page" heading or instruction note, no "Drill-downs" list, no
  "Status <word> - sentence" footer. The artefact table starts at level 2,
  under the heading "Artefacts"; the history timeline is level 2 only.
- Landing page: "Start here" link text gone, "How to read this site" panel
  gone, the footer's status-label explainer gone.
- Content, presentation only, no claim softened: the leading H1 that
  duplicated the page title removed from all 41 documents; level 1 bodies
  reduced to the constraint as ordinary prose plus the way in;
  "**Status: ...**" prefixes removed from the artefact stubs; "## Drill-downs"
  and "## Period and confidence" removed from the level 2 pages, with the
  cross-area links moved into the prose.
- The six level 1 claims are now sentences with a subject, and use commas
  instead of middots. Same facts, no new ones.

Not in this commit: the 35 level 2 and 3 claims still use the compact CV
style. That is a voice decision for Sam, not a wording tidy-up.

make validate: 41 documents, 0 violations. go test ./...: pass.

(cherry picked from commit 03009f80fc7815ad7719412e125df9297a6e653f)
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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.
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

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tags: [products, cms, media, artefact]
---
# Artefact — The site builder behind the signage
**Status: delivered, retained.** Retired as a general-purpose product; kept as the content engine for the signage.
Retired as a general-purpose product; kept as the content engine for the signage.
## What the artefact is

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tags: [products, where-woof, artefact]
---
# Artefact — Where-Woof · deployed and pre-market
**Status: running, pre-market.** This is the exact wording the site uses, deliberately: deployed is true, commercial is not.
Deployed is true, commercial is not — that is the exact wording the site uses, deliberately.
## What the artefact is

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tags: [products, business, signage, where-woof, positioning]
---
# Software sold and operated — with the status stated
**Capability statement.** Building software for a client and building software as a product are different jobs. This page is the second one: a market that was overpriced, a substitute built on hardware that costs a fraction of the incumbent systems, customers who adopted it, and the operational cost of keeping it running.
## The commercial story
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- **One product is pre-revenue by design.** Where-Woof is deployed before it is sold. Describing it as commercial would be a lie that a careful reader would find in a minute.
- **Support is the hidden cost.** Customers running the product for years is the strongest evidence of value and the strongest argument for keeping the surface small.
## Drill-downs
Signage infrastructure is also platform work: [screens as a managed fleet](../platform/l3/platform-signage.md).
- [Commercial signage on commodity hardware](l3/products-signage.md) — level 3
- [The site builder behind it](l3/products-websitebuilder.md) — level 3
- [Where-Woof — deployed and pre-market](l3/products-where-woof.md) — level 3
- [Signage infrastructure — screens as a managed fleet](../platform/l3/platform-signage.md) — level 3
## Period and confidence
`period: 2014–`, anchored on the first freelance product work in the résumé. Confidence is `running`: the products exist and customers still use one of them. Individual products carry their own status, and the two caveats — a rebuild in progress and a launch not yet made — are in the table above rather than in a footnote.
Each product carries its own status, and the two caveats — a rebuild in progress and a launch not yet made — are in the table above rather than in a footnote.

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area: products
level: 1
title: "Products"
claim: "Identified an overpriced market and shipped a cheaper substitute on commodity hardware — twelve adoptions over time and three businesses still running it."
claim: "Sam identified an overpriced market and shipped a cheaper substitute on commodity hardware: twelve adoptions over time and three businesses still running it."
confidence: running
period: "2014–"
tech: [PHP, JavaScript, three.js, FFmpeg, ImageMagick, HDMI-CEC, Raspberry Pi, ESP32]
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last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [products, signage, business, where-woof]
---
# Products
**Claim.** A digital signage product built as deliberate disruption to thousand-dollar wall systems — three businesses still run it — plus the site builder that produced the marketing sites and a lost-property tag system that is deployed but not yet sold.
**Status.** Running. The counts are the corrected ones: three businesses active now, twelve adoptions over time, and Where-Woof deployed without a market launch.
**Why it is on an engineering CV.** Selling, deploying and still supporting software for other businesses is a different discipline from writing it. Two of the three products carry honest caveats that are stated rather than hidden: the signage platform is being rebuilt, and Where-Woof has not gone to market.
**Start here.** [The commercial story](products-business.md) covers what each product is, what state it is in, and what it cost to run.
Building, selling, deploying and still supporting software for other businesses is a different discipline from writing it, and the caveats on these three products are stated rather than hidden. The commercial story is on the [products page](products-business.md).