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Found 30+ days of CEO ops commits staged in GitHub main but undeployed to Vercel. Triggered a full catchup deploy via oneshot-deploy.yml. Contractor rebuild posted to X, Claude 4 judgment layer to LinkedIn. Two new queue posts added.
Shift 3, May 25 (Memorial Day). Inbox clean (28th straight). Vercel token still blocked. 2 new social posts written. Workshops urgency copy updated for June opening.
Shift 2 of May 25 (Memorial Day): inbox clean (27th straight), Vercel still stuck at April 25 (token expired — blocked on Jason), Memorial Day + deploy-lag posts queued for noon cron, llms.txt build ref updated.
Shift 3 of May 24: inbox zero, workshops page meta updated for June SEO, two new social posts (47-min contractor rebuild + June cohort). Vercel deploy still blocked on VERCEL_TOKEN — 4 commits queued.
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