Follow the build from the inside. This is the public record of what shipped, what is being built, and where Field Network members can weigh in before the next piece hardens.
Entries are dated by ship date, newest first. The same habit applies on the deal side. Every deal you pass on gets logged and reviewed in the Deals I Walked Ledger and Post-Mortem, so the reasons stay on the record. The trail runs back through the build, not just tonight.
October 23, 2026
The offer panel on the homepage repeated the full price list in prose, on a site that already has a pricing page. The list is cut. The panel now ends on the pilot story and two buttons with different jobs: Apply for a pilot place, and See pricing, which goes to the page where the terms live.
October 23, 2026
A sitewide pass gave every closing panel one treatment: the cream card, the royal border, the full halo kept for offer, pricing, and call to action panels, and real buttons where links used to sit buried inside paragraphs. The guides, the tools, the library, the Field Notes, and the homepage all close in the same language now, checked in the render on desktop and on a phone.
October 22, 2026
Hitch, the guide in the corner of every page, is back and was resynced to the site as it stands: the settled pricing, all eleven Field Notes, and the pricing page itself as a source it can cite. What it quotes is what the pages say.
October 22, 2026
The lineup is ruled and published in one place: five free pilot places; Monthly at $299 per 30-day period; Single-Deal at $1,299 for one property over 180 days; Annual at $2,999 for 12 months. ParkProof generation is included per property on every paid plan, and every price anywhere else on the site traces back to this page.
October 20, 2026
The eleventh Field Note takes on the park that wears two prices in two rooms, and walks the cap rate math back to the evidence under each number. Same park, same dirt, two asking prices; the note shows where the second one comes from.
October 20, 2026
The desk workspace and the Field app both signed in, start to finish, on a local bench, the first time sign-in has been observed working in this program. The connected Source to Field to Acquire loop has still not been run end to end, and this log will say so on the day it is.
October 19, 2026
A full audit graded 28 components of the codebase: 21 committed only, 3 partial, 4 absent, and none called verified without proof behind the label. The environment baseline then ran clean, with install, lint, typecheck, and build green, 977 tests passing, and the migration set running up, down, and up again without an error. What is broken is a list now, not a feeling.
October 18, 2026
The Privacy Policy, the Terms, and the Editorial Standards now say what happens in the site chat: what is collected, that conversations are filed and read, that the AI provider does not keep them to train on, and the rules the agent answers under, including what counts as a failure. The standard behind those rules was adopted the same day. The pages state the practices plainly; the authorities behind them stay on file, the way the claims ledger does.
October 18, 2026
On a phone, opening the menu at the foot of the homepage buried its links under the last section. It opens on top now, the way it was drawn. Found and fixed the same night.
October 16, 2026
All 72 pages, claim by claim. Numbers that could not be stood behind were labeled as working assumptions or taken out. The comparison pages now say plainly what the other tools do well. Every Field Note prints its sources and its limits at the foot of the page. The ledger behind the audit lives in the repository and stays open.
October 16, 2026
A claim reads the same on every page now. One chip, one color, one meaning, on the tools, the guides, the resources, and the homepage. Broker-reported is the same orange everywhere it appears.
October 16, 2026
This log has a card on the homepage now, under the lifecycle. The build record is part of the front door, not a page a reader has to already know about.
October 16, 2026
The closing lines of the tools, the guides, and the resource library sat bare on the dark background, fine print included. They close inside the cream card now. Not a word changed.
October 15, 2026
Captions, table titles, and framework names across the site now carry CrosstownOS inside the passage itself. When a table or a definition gets lifted and quoted, its source comes with it.
October 15, 2026
The extraction layer put structured twins beside the prose: evidence tables, worked examples, and Inside this CrosstownOS tool blocks on the resource pages, so each worksheet's method sits on the page in HTML instead of only inside its PDF.
October 15, 2026
Fifty-one pages went into Google's validation queue and the eleven priority pages were hand requested for indexing, so the library the audit found waiting can finally be crawled.
October 15, 2026
The old deck subdomains now redirect to the main site, and the retired underwriter app was taken off the domain. One front door, kept clean.
October 15, 2026
The workspace page, the checklist title, and the mobile home park guide now speak in the terms manufactured housing buyers use, and the guide gained a section on what due diligence looks like on a manufactured housing community.
October 15, 2026
All 38 pages whose meta descriptions measured under 100 characters, 36 resource pages plus the privacy and terms pages, now carry a written description of what the page holds, replacing the short placeholders search engines were left to guess from.
October 15, 2026
Twenty-two internal links were placed across the estate, in the essays, the guides, the catalog, and between the resource pages themselves, so a reader who lands on one page can walk through the next door.
October 15, 2026
The mobile home park guide and the RV park guide were differentiated so each argues its own case, and the checklist page was differentiated with them, name kept, doing its own job in the sequence.
October 13, 2026
Schema was added to the pages still missing it and to the resource detail template, so every page states what it is in the language search engines read first.
October 13, 2026
The advertising cookies line on the privacy page now matches the Meta Pixel the site actually runs.
October 11, 2026
Source copy on the workspace page was cut back to the locked, built scope, and the ParkProof Walkthrough was given its own card on the page.
October 10, 2026
Trial wording across the site became the five-place free pilot: calls to action, FAQs, terms, and emails, with the Meta Pixel disclosed in the privacy policy the same night.
October 10, 2026
The Product schema on the workspace page gained the merchant listings fields Google requires, the fix the later Search Console flag turned out to predate.
October 9, 2026
The ninth Field Note took on who owns the homes in a manufactured housing community, and what that means for what a buyer is actually buying.
October 7, 2026
The Founding Deal Desk engagement retired. The offer is now software: Single-Deal Workspace at $1,250 and Annual Workspace at $2,500. Every human-service promise removed across the site, email, and booking. The buyer operates the workspace.
October 4, 2026
The explorable walk-through follows one fictional park from broker package to documented posture, with every screen labeled illustrative and fictional.
October 4, 2026
The Field Notes installment reads a synthetic offering package claim by claim and lands each claim on an evidence state.
October 4, 2026
The page shows what a buyer brings when the deal was worked in CrosstownOS, what a sample decision file contains, and where the Referral Alliance door opens.
October 4, 2026
The standard states the evidence states, what counts as evidence, how gates work, and why Advance, Retrade, Pause, and Walk are evidence-readiness labels.
October 4, 2026
Lifecycle tiles took on solid module-color bands, deeper November washes, and a color spine, while the November opening set stayed legible at a glance.
October 4, 2026
The thin workspace announcement now sits in warm cream so it reads as a headline above the dark site header.
October 4, 2026
Article pages keep the header video bleed, then move to cream below it for reading. The Field Notes index kept its card layout.
October 4, 2026
Cards and information surfaces moved to warm parchment cream while the background video and charcoal haze stayed untouched underneath.
October 4, 2026
Deal Desk, Field Network, Referral Alliance, and general conversation doors now offer a booking path alongside the write-first form.
October 4, 2026
The older Founding Network and Founding Circle labels were retired across the public site. The people door and the Field module no longer compete for the same word.
October 4, 2026
Each module in the lifecycle grid received a short public description, with Source, Field, and Acquire illuminated as the November opening set.
October 3, 2026
The Rent Roll Is a Claim, Not Income Verification joined the catalog as the seventh published note.
October 3, 2026
The homepage section was rebuilt in plain language around one idea: ParkProof turns a deal file into a decision file.
October 2, 2026
Founder review set Source as the start of the record and Field as on-site capture. That night, Field capture was seen running: photos, notes, and observations tied to the deal they belong to. Captured evidence stays unreviewed until a person reviews it. The connected Source to Field to Acquire loop had not been run end to end at this date.
October 2, 2026
The product loop added Calculated and Unresolved alongside Verified, Broker-reported, Missing evidence, and Underwriting assumption.
October 2, 2026
The public workspace page, terms, FAQ, and application flow were aligned and verified live as one door for a live deal.
October 1, 2026
Source + Field + Acquire were set as the November build scope: one connected loop from public record, to site walk, to the record used before capital is committed.
September 30, 2026
The module palette was locked with Victor across the lifecycle: Know it. Take it. Hold it. The colors later carried onto the site tiles.
September 30, 2026
The sixth Field Note took on zoning, permits, legal site count, and the difference between a package claim and the county record.
September 28, 2026
The resource library grew to 38 PDFs: the 35 coded tools organized across the seven Parts of the deal journey, plus the three spine documents, with the catalog and router tying each tool to the next step.
September 27, 2026
The public resource storefront went live at /resources, with the first resource set organized on public shelves and PDF downloads from the site.
September 27, 2026
The fifth Field Note treated the seller P&L as a set of claims to normalize, not a neutral record.
September 24, 2026
The fourth Field Note argued that the seller's clock is not the buyer's strategy, and that verification is how a buyer takes the clock back.
September 23, 2026
Founder review locked Verified, Broker-reported, Missing evidence, and Underwriting assumption as the top-level language on the deal record.
September 21, 2026
Founder review put evidence states at the center of the product: every material claim would carry where it came from and what state it was in.
September 18, 2026
Referral Alliance stood as a public partner door alongside the founding-circle door that became Field Network on October 4.
September 15, 2026
The buyer-side publication launched with Markdown posts, a blog index, RSS, sitemap support, and related posts. The opening note, dated September 15, took on what must be established before underwriting.
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