what we shipped

Changelog.

Every public ship, fix, decision, and research dispatch. Velocity in writing. If this log goes quiet for more than 30 days, something is wrong — call us out on it.

2026-05-11

ship

Wave 6 — 10-item website push

—Interactive ROI calculator on the homepage
—/status page with component-level uptime
—/changelog (this page) for public velocity log
—Vertical programmatic SEO pages live
—Comparison pages (vs Smith.ai, vs Ruby, vs Vapi)
—Newsletter signup component sitewide
—Video testimonial layout with Goggins YouTube embed
—Live demo CTA wired (Twilio number to be provisioned)

2026-05-11

ship

Tool Vault icons + partner logos

—Replaced emoji icons with bespoke SVG strokes for every Tool Vault vertical
—Inlined Anthropic / OpenAI / Google / NVIDIA logos in the PartnersBar (killed CDN dependency)
—Removed unrealistic Testimonials section pending real client video

2026-05-11

ship

Waves 2 – 5 shipped

—/trust — Scale/Writer 5-block trust + security page
—/manifesto — 9-tenet operating doctrine with explicit refusals
—/stack — owned-stack differentiation thesis (Pipecat / LiveKit / Stagehand / browser-use / claude-mem)
—/demo-day — weekly live AI-build registration
—/restaurants/ai-audit, /trades/ai-audit, /law-firms/ai-audit — vertical audit landings
—Pricing modernization: Pilot tier free 14 days, setup waived on annual, Custom replaces "$7K+/mo" ceiling
—30-day fit guarantee badge under pricing hero
—About page rewritten in two-co-founder voice (Kadin + Jaiden)

2026-05-11

ship

Wave 1 — homepage spike

—New H1: "From ringing phone to paid invoice — automatically."
—TrustStrip below hero (data ownership / frontier stack / founder-led)
—ComparisonTable (Summit vs Human / Smith.ai / Ruby / DIY ChatGPT)
—StickyCTABar bottom-anchored after 800px scroll
—Hero proof-metric strip + footer rebuilt 4→5 col

2026-05-11

research

10 deep-research agents dispatched

—Anthropic-customer positioning · top AI agency design teardown · pricing/packaging
—SMB lead-gen tactics · trust signals · content marketing · trending GitHub skills
—AI voice receptionist landscape · founder-led GTM · landing-page conversion
—Master synthesis saved at vault/Ascero AI/Research 2026-05-11/

2026-05-11

fix

Live Claude chat (AskSummit) remounted on home

—Rewired the 478-line AskTilacum chat agent (was stubbed during rebrand)
—Verified raven-tools-omega.vercel.app/api/claude proxy POST 200
—Mounted at /ask-summit anchor for the hero secondary CTA

2026-05-11

ship

Recommended Partners section added

—PartnersBar component — Anthropic / OpenAI / Google / NVIDIA cards
—Each card explains the offering Ascero AI deploys from that stack
—Disclaimer that logos are nominative and Ascero AI is independent

2026-05-11

ship

Affiliates + Tool Vault surfaced

—PartnerProgramTeaser section on home
—Affiliates added to navbar (7 primary links)
—Footer expanded 4-col → 5-col, every previously-orphaned page now linked

2026-05-11

ship

Two case studies shipped

—SknnyChef rewritten to match current Inner Circle build (Shopify-native, founding-member, Robluna aesthetic)
—Goggins Real Estate — sourced from 2021 testimonial transcript (833 conversions / ~$11K spend / 10.4% CVR / $0.63 CPC)

2026-05-11

ship

Tools added to nav + ToolVaultPreview on home

—New ToolVaultPreview surfaces 9 vertical buckets on the home page
—Navbar gained Tools link
—Copy broadened from "trade businesses" to "small businesses" sitewide

2026-05-11

spec

Vercel subdomain claimed: asceroai.com

—Alias added to production deploy
—asceroai.com kept live for SEO continuity
—Real .com domain deferred until budget allocated

2026-05-10

ship

Ascero AI → Ascero AI rebrand complete

—Phases 0-8 of operator brief executed via ULTRAPROJECT
—11/12 acceptance criteria pass
—Live at asceroai.com · all routes verified · zero console errors
—Run report saved at Omega Project/Ascero AI/Summit-AI-Rebrand-Run-Report-2026-05-10.md