Morning brief

• FIXEDPlayback plays the whole note. It does not stop at 3-second chunks. Cause: a finished player cannot restart itself on real hardware. Now each segment gets a fresh, pre-loaded player.
• FIXEDThe waveform moves at constant speed. It now renders on a fixed clock, not on bursts from the native side.
• FIXEDSend from the case screen opens the chat. You watch the disc fill and become "Sent". The bin does not open the chat.
• FIXEDThe chat opens at the true bottom. The phantom "Latest" pill is gone. It can only appear after you drag up.

Note: TestFlight numbering jumped to 75. A build I cancelled mid-flight had silently taken 74 at Apple. Auto-increment now covers this.

Test in the morning: record on 4G → watch % climb while you speak → play a 30s note in ONE tap → listen for gaps at the 3s marks. Then the big one: kill the app mid-recording, reopen, expect the salvaged partial within ~30s.

Animated board: ela-arrival-celebration.pages.dev — three live animations in accurate phone frames, each with replay and a reduce-motion toggle.

OPEN · D-CEL-1Recommendation: B — "Protection washes over." One mint bloom from the disc. The title settles. One haptic. No new objects.

The finding that drove it: your funnel already celebrates twice before home (payment confirmed, then the protection moment). Arrival is the fourth screen in a row that could applaud. It must be the exhale, not more applause.

• A "The key turns" — beautiful, but the turning key is an invented asset: your approved mark is the keyhole (you pivoted away from the key concept on 13 Jul). Picking A means commissioning the key.
• C "Specks rise" — rejected in the write-up: specks already mean "ambient calm" on two onboarding screens; a one-shot burst would give one shape two meanings.
• Literal confetti — rejected with the receipt: Robinhood's confetti was cited by state regulators as gamification evidence, then removed. Wrong register for a life-safety product.

Also marked on the board: one-shot fires on first ACTIVE render (not first home render — review members land on "Verifying identity"), flag lives server-side, haptic fires even under reduce-motion, no sound ever.

DONEServer V1 complete and live on prod (sweeps, retention, DSAR, admin, rate caps — ticks verified). Mobile V2 record → stream → salvage → play, device-hardened through your four test rounds.

DONEByte caps re-based on prod: real hardware records ~93kbps, not the 32kbps we asked for. Old caps made 90-second notes impossible.

OPENStill to verify on device: playback gap at seams (your ear), in-call refusal, background grace-drain. Still to build: play-gate PIN link, Whisper transcription (VT), hardening drills (V4). Watch recording: designed, deferred by you — say "schedule the watch wave" when ready.

• OPENErrorScreen family + the transient "checking status" frame still wear the old heading style — both need a call, not a silent restyle (details in the sweep commit).
• OPENMobbin needs re-auth (token expired) — blocks pattern research going forward.
• OPENRehearsal-page shotgun verdicts + trusted-contacts picker slice — still parked from before.

ela-night-shift.pages.dev — yesterday as a Dubai night skyline. Every commit is a building. The windows flicker like test suites. The eight TestFlight builds cross the sky as shooting stars. The gold constellation rises over the 22:21 tower — the one where voice notes shipped. Hover the buildings.

The last timestamp on the ground reads "02:02 — founder still testing". It was the truest fact of the day.