✅ Phase 1: Content MVP (built & deployed)

Static, responsive, SEO-complete site + /brain content layer. No motion yet. Built with Fable. 238 pages, deployed to Vercel preview.

Part A, content + work + contact + SEO:

All 7 homepage sections: hero (empty #hero-webgl-mount for Phase 3), proof strip (stat TODOs in src/data/profile.ts), about, two-track Selected Work (featured → case studies, grid → external, each labeled 0→1 / Contributed), How I Work (4 principles + tech list), contact (React island: per-field validation, aria-live, loading/success, stubbed submit), footer (real links + résumé + theme/locale + back-to-top).
4 MDX case studies: /work/shoppin, /wellbeing-nutrition, /ueue, /prism, Problem→Decision→Outcome with [TODO: metric] slots. Collection keyed en/<slug>; getWorkEntry() falls back to English (ready for later locales).
SEO (D009 - SEO and AI Crawlers): robots.txt allows all 16 named AI crawlers + default; sitemap with hreflang + x-default via serialize hook (Astro sitemap doesn't emit it alone), covering /work + /brain; Person JSON-LD sitewide + CreativeWork per study; OG/Twitter + generated 1200×630 stone og.png; /llms.txt covering all 11 projects.

Part B, /brain content layer (Knowledge Graph):

src/lib/brain.ts parses the vault at build time (gray-matter + remark AST). Wikilinks incl. [[Note|alias]] → /brain/[slug]; rewrite on text nodes only, so the literal [[wikilinks]] in a code span is preserved (verified).
All 28 notes render at /brain/[slug] with a "Linked from" backlinks panel (case-study-framework shows 9 backlinks); /brain index groups by type with excerpts + #brain-graph-mount for Phase 3. In-body wikilinks stay within-locale on non-English routes.

Language rule respected: English-only content; Phase 0 chrome translations + i18n scaffold untouched; non-English pages = English content, own chrome/fonts/direction.

Verification: Lighthouse (local, en) 99/100/96/100 across home + case study + brain index + note (96 = Speed Insights 404 on localhost → 100 on Vercel). Screenshots: home light/dark, 320px, Arabic mirrored, Urdu case study RTL, brain both themes. One h1/page; skip link intact; x-default on all 238 URLs.

Open TODOs (Saif supplies): src/data/profile.ts two stats; [TODO:] metric bullets in the 4 MDX files; real domain in astro.config.mjs. Shoppin' safe metrics per D014 - Shoppin Case Study Scope.

Next: Phase 2, motion layer.