Marketing + behaviour pass to get the site ready for Paddle approval.
Pricing page
- £7/month, £70/year headline (was "Coming soon").
- Bigger tier names (was 11px uppercase mono — looked like chips).
- Real CTAs (button base styles were only scoped to .hero__ctas).
- "Best value" badge + drop-shadow on the Paid card; full-width
block CTAs that align across both cards.
- "Free vs Paid at a glance" comparison table beneath the cards.
- Compact "Invite a friend — both get 50% off for 3 months"
callout with the detail explanation behind a <dialog> popup.
Tier copy + behaviour now consistent
- Free strategic-log refresh is every 6 hours, not hourly. New
read-side filter on /api/log/{latest,by-date} restricts free
users to logs at boundary hours (00/06/12/18 UTC); paid users
still see the most recent.
- Follow-up chat is paid-only. /api/chat returns 402 for free;
the chat sidebar on /log is replaced with a locked aside and
chat.js no longer loads at all for free users.
- Dashboard meta lines + landing copy softened so they no longer
promise hourly to everyone.
Future-proofing copy on public pages
- Dropped "free forever" wording (we may close the free tier).
- "Trading 212 CSV" became "broker CSV (Trading 212 today; more
planned)" on pricing + landing; the actual import UIs stay
T212-specific.
Terms
- Renamed Terms of Service -> Terms and Conditions (Paddle
expectation), bumped last-updated to 2026-05-26.
- New §6 Refunds covering the 14-day cooling off, post-window
cancellation, termination-by-us refunds, statutory rights, and
how to request a refund.
- Renumbered §7-§14 and fixed the disclaimer link labels.
Tests
- 6 new tests in tests/test_chat_and_log_gates.py cover the
chat 402 + the boundary-hour filter on both log endpoints.
- Full suite: 205 passed, 5 skipped, 0 failed.
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Two fixes after a visual review:
1. Drop-shadow on every `.shot` so screenshots read as raised elements,
not part of the page chrome. Soft slate shadow in light mode; deeper
pure-black shadow + accent-tinted glow on hover in dark mode (the slate
shadow disappears against the near-black background). The hover state
also nudges the card up 1px so the lift is felt, not just seen.
2. Vertical alignment of the news / macro / hourly thumbnails inside the
three feature cards. The cards are already equal-height (grid row,
default stretch); now `.feature-card__body { flex-grow: 1 }` plus
`display:flex; flex-direction:column` on the card pushes the body
text to fill the column, which lands every thumbnail at the same y
regardless of how much copy sits above it. Fixed 18px gap between
body text and thumbnail.
Five PNGs at app/static/images/ (renamed from screenshot dumps):
- dashboard.png — full dashboard hero shot, sits below the hero CTAs
- news-feed.png — feature-card thumbnail: auto-tagged news feed
- indicators-read.png — feature-card thumbnail: per-group AI commentary
- strategic-log.png — feature-card thumbnail: hourly strategic log text
- chat-with-log.png — "More views" gallery: ask follow-ups against a log
Every screenshot is a <button class="shot"> with data-full + data-caption;
click opens an HTML5 <dialog>-based lightbox. <dialog> handles focus trap,
ESC-to-close, inert background; the backdrop click closes too. Images use
loading="lazy" so the lightbox-only ones don't block first paint.
CSS appended to cassandra.css: .shot, .shot-hero, .shots-grid, .shot__caption,
and .shot-modal (+ ::backdrop). All colours pull from the existing palette
vars so light and dark themes stay coherent.
Total image weight: ~950 KB across all five — acceptable for a marketing
landing page with lazy-loaded thumbnails.
Adds the unauthenticated surface that's needed to invite outsiders:
- Landing (/) — dual-purpose root: dashboard for logged-in users,
landing for everyone else. New maybe_current_user soft-auth helper
in app/auth.py supports it without disturbing the per-route
require_token deps on /news, /log, /upload, /settings.
- About, Pricing, Disclaimer, Terms, Privacy — own router
(app/routers/public.py), no auth dep, shared public_base layout
(brand link, thin nav, footer with legal links + ICO ref + date).
- Editorial positioning: news aggregator with a macro brain; tagline
"Understand markets. Don't gamble on them."; anti-trading-as-gambling
stance carried through About and Landing.
Legal pass following an independent lawyer-style review:
- Privacy: explicit UK-GDPR Art. 6 lawful-basis section; Art. 22
automated-decision line; explicit consent for sessionStorage sync
key (PECR); 30-day IP-log retention; Art. 21 objection right;
Children clause; Art. 33/34 breach-notification clause;
international-transfer mechanism (IDTA + UK Addendum). ICO
registration ZC098928 surfaced at the top.
- Pricing: paid-card AI-portfolio-analysis bullet rewritten to remove
advice-shaped wording ("what would invalidate the posture" gone);
added italic carve-out citing FSMA / FCA COBS.
- Disclaimer: separate EU/EEA carve-out + MAR 596/2014 Art. 3(1)(34)
commentator safe-harbour; "qualifies the Terms" line; hallucination
wording fixed.
- Terms: cl.4 explicit AI-training prohibition + harassment line;
cl.5 CCR 2013 14-day cancellation; cl.7 softened AI copyright
claim under CDPA s.9(3) ambiguity; cl.8 proportionate suspension +
pro-rata refund for paid users; cl.10 CRA 2015 Pt 1 statutory-rights
carve-out from the liability cap; cl.11 right to close account on
material change; cl.12 non-exclusive jurisdiction + UK consumer
local courts.
Code-side enforcement of the Privacy claim:
- openrouter.py: outbound OpenRouter calls now carry
X-OR-Allow-Training: false. DeepSeek doesn't expose a per-request
flag; the Privacy page discloses this caveat verbatim.
Apex domain prep:
- branding.APP_URL flipped to https://read.markets (was app.). DNS for
the apex already resolves; pending operator NPM step is a cert that
covers the bare apex + a 301 from app.read.markets. No hard-coded
subdomain references remain in code (verified with grep).
Nav + chrome:
- app dropdown gains Pricing / Terms / Privacy / Disclaimer links.
- login.html gains a small legal-links footer for the
highest-leverage moment to surface them.
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- dashboard grid: explicit "header" area as the first row so the
aggregated read panel renders at the top instead of being
auto-placed after the named areas.
- indicators: hide rows flagged stale (older than the group's
freshness threshold). Server still computes stale_symbols;
rendering can be re-enabled by removing the
`{% if not is_stale %}` wrapper in indicators.html.
- /log: add tone-changed to #log-content's hx-trigger and include
it in cassandraSetTone's selector list — toggling Novice /
Intermediate on the Log page was previously a no-op.
- prompts: bump PROMPT_VERSION 7→8. Strengthen the rational-vs-
irrational framing in the strategic-log system prompt from
aspirational to mandatory ("a paragraph without both lenses must
be rewritten"). Require the same lens in the per-group summary,
cross-asset aggregate, and portfolio commentary overrides.
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Swaps the role of `:root` (now light) and the data-theme attribute
(now `[data-theme="dark"]`) in cassandra.css, flips the localStorage
fallback from 'dark' to 'light' in base/login/verify templates, and
updates the theme-toggle label and the branding-consistency test
selectors to match.
Existing users with cassandra.theme=dark in localStorage still see
dark — their explicit preference wins. Only first-time visitors and
users with no stored preference shift to light.
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Lays the billing-prep spine before Paddle lands in D.3.
D.1 — referrals
- users.referral_code: unique 8-char URL-safe code (alphabet excludes the
ambiguous 0/O/1/I/L). Generated lazily on first /settings hit so existing
accounts pick one up without a backfill migration.
- users.referred_by_user_id + new referrals audit table (referrer,
referred, created_at, converted_at, credited_at). converted_at /
credited_at stay null until D.3 fills them via the Paddle webhook.
- POST /login accepts ?ref=<code>; the code rides on the signed
pending-verify cookie so it survives the GET → POST → /verify hop.
- /settings page: email, tier badge, referral code chip + invite link
with one-click copy, pending/converted/active-credits stats grid.
Settings nav link added to the top bar.
Reward shape: when the referred user makes their first paid Paddle
subscription, both they and the referrer get 50% off for 3 months.
(D.3 wires the actual credit application via the Paddle webhook.)
D.2 — paid-access gate
- users.credit_until: timestamp until which a free-tier account has
paid-tier access. Null = no credit. Populated by admin CLI now and the
D.3 webhook later.
- app.services.access exposes paid_status(user) → PaidStatus dataclass
(active / source / expires_at / days_remaining), is_paid_active() with
admin-bearer-token bypass, and a require_paid FastAPI dependency that
raises 402 Payment Required for free-tier callers.
- POST /api/analyze (portfolio AI commentary) gated behind require_paid.
- Settings page surfaces credit window when active ("free · credit · N
day(s) remaining (expires YYYY-MM-DD)") and the upgrade hint when not.
- Admin CLI: python -m app.cli {grant-credit,revoke-credit,show-status}.
grant-credit is idempotent — extends from max(now, current expiry) so
re-running the command never erodes an existing grant.
Migrations 0013 (referrals) and 0014 (credit_until). Tests cover the
paid-status truth table, code generation + normalisation, CLI argument
parsing, and the pending-cookie ref roundtrip (29 new tests).
- Move news_job from hourly to 3x/hour (cron 10,30,50), with a CadencePolicy
gate that throttles to active hours (07-21 UTC weekdays at 20 min), off-hours
(3 h), weekends (6 h). Keeps the daytime feed fresh without spamming RSS
sources overnight.
- Tag each headline on ingestion via DeepSeek (BATCH_SIZE=25, max_tokens=4000,
json.JSONDecoder().raw_decode + per-row regex recovery for resilient parsing).
Vocabulary: 16 tags including new EU / USA / AI / Conflict. NULL tags are
picked up automatically on the next news_job run, so back-tagging is implicit
rather than a separate migration step.
- Tag UI: pill bar above the feed with off → include → exclude cycle on click;
shift-click jumps straight to exclude. State persists in localStorage and is
injected into /api/news requests via htmx:configRequest. Per-row chips sit to
the right of the headline (new 5-column grid: age | source | title | tags |
UTC) so vertical density stays high.
- Strategic log header bug: model was hallucinating "(Updated 21:30 UTC)" in
future tense. Bumped PROMPT_VERSION 6→7, added explicit ban on time-of-day
clauses, and supply the actual current UTC time in the user prompt so the
model has no need to invent one.
Migration 0012 adds headlines.tags (JSON, nullable). Tests cover vocabulary
integrity, validation/normalisation, and the JSON-recovery parser (17 tests).
Server no longer holds portfolios. Holdings live in the browser
(localStorage); the server publishes an anonymous ticker_universe and a
gzipped /api/universe payload identical for every authenticated user, so
access patterns can't betray which tickers a user holds. AI commentary
is generated ephemerally from the browser-supplied pie and the cost
ledger row records no positions. Migrations 0009-0011 added the
universe table and dropped positions / portfolio_snapshots /
portfolios.
Authentication is now e-mail OTP only. Migration 0010 dropped
password_hash and email_verified (every active session is by
construction proof of email control). The /signup endpoint is gone;
signup and login share a single email-entry page. Email rendering is
HTML+plain-text multipart with a shared brand palette (app/branding.py)
asserted in sync with the CSS by a drift-detection test.
LLM provider defaults to DeepSeek-direct (cheaper, api.deepseek.com)
with OpenRouter as automatic fallback if DeepSeek fails. ai_log_job and
indicator_summary_job now iterate the two tones (NOVICE, INTERMEDIATE)
per cycle so the dashboard's tone toggle is instant; PROMPT_VERSION
bumped to 6 with an educational anti-TA / anti-gambling stance baked
into _CORE. NOVICE mode renders a curated glossary inline (CBOE VIX,
yield curve, HY OAS, etc.) with JS-positioned tooltips that survive
viewport edges and sticky bars. Model name and tokens hidden from the
user UI; still recorded in StrategicLog.model and AICall for admin.
Layout adds a sticky top nav, a sticky bottom markets bar (one chip per
exchange with status LED + headline index + 1d change), and
Phase H feedback reporting is queued in tasks/todo.md.
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Replaces the static bearer-token gate with a real auth boundary. The
existing CASSANDRA_TOKEN path is retained as an admin / scripting escape
hatch — kept compatible by aliasing require_token to require_auth.
- New users table (migration 0007): email, argon2 password_hash, tier,
email_verified (declared but not enforced until phase E), settings_json
for the tone/analysis/anchor knobs we'll wire in phase D.
- app/services/auth_service.py: argon2-cffi password hashing with timing-
attack-resistant authenticate() (always runs a hash verify even on
unknown-email to deny a username-enumeration oracle).
- app/auth.py rewritten: require_auth returns a CurrentUser with either
is_admin=True (bearer path) or a User object (session path). Failing
requests get 303 → /login for HTML, 401 for API. Sessions signed with
itsdangerous against CASSANDRA_SESSION_SECRET; 14-day TTL.
- app/routers/auth.py: /login, /signup, /logout. Login form preserves the
?next=… param for redirect-after-login. Signup respects a new
CASSANDRA_SIGNUP_ENABLED flag.
- Standalone /login + /signup templates (no app chrome). base.html grows
a user chip + logout link in the header (reads request.state.current_user).
Phase A's main known limitations are documented in the plan: email
verification is declared but not enforced; session revocation is
best-effort (cookie-only, not DB-backed). Both land in phase E.
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Completes Phase B. The full alternative-onboarding flow is now end-to-end:
drop a T212 pie CSV → parser → InstrumentMap resolver → PortfolioSnapshot
+ Position rows, all without ever asking the user for broker credentials.
- persist_pie() in app/services/csv_import.py: takes a ParsedPie, resolves
each Slice via InstrumentMap, writes Portfolio + Snapshot + Position
rows. Unmapped slices are still persisted using their CSV values and
surfaced in the response for the UI to warn about.
- POST /api/portfolios/upload: multipart endpoint accepting CSV file +
optional portfolio_name + currency. 2 MiB cap. Returns import summary.
- /upload page with drag-drop dropzone, file input fallback, and inline
result panel showing invested/value/result + unmapped-slice warnings.
- New "Import" link in the header nav.
Verified end-to-end against the real T212 export: all 13 positions land
with correct T212 tickers (incl. FPp_EQ for the Paris TotalEnergies
listing the heuristic resolver picks), zero unmapped slices, totals
reconcile to the penny.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three new data sources hooked into the existing SOURCES registry. All
open APIs, no keys:
- EUROSTAT: prefix EUROSTAT:dataset?dim=val&... — current EU bond
yields (Bund/OAT/BTP/EZ) and Eurozone economic indicators that
FRED's OECD-mirror series stopped updating in 2022-2023.
- ONS: prefix ONS:topic/cdid/dataset — current UK CPI, unemployment,
GDP, industrial production. Replaces the 5+ month-stale FRED
LRHUTTTTGBM156S mirror.
New indicator groups in default.toml feed the strategic/fundamental
lens we converged on: valuation (CAPE/Buffett anchors), bubble_watch
(SKEW/VVIX/RSP vs SPY/HYG vs TLT/IPO/crypto), economy (multi-region,
ALL current-or-stale-flagged), bonds (UK/EU/US/JPN sovereign yields).
Indicator panel now opens with an AI "read" interpretation per group
(generated hourly at :07 UTC alongside an aggregate cross-group read
shown in the dashboard header). The aggregate is grounded by a markets
strip — NYSE/LSE/Frankfurt/Tokyo/HK/Shanghai with open/closed LEDs and
next-open countdown, computed locally from each exchange's tz.
Other UX bits: indicator-row tooltips populated from TOML notes;
rows whose last observation is >90 days old get a 'stale' chip;
ghost symbols (in DB but no longer in TOML) filtered out of the
panel; Eurostat/ONS symbols display as short codes rather than the
full API path.
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Containerised macro-strategy dashboard: 4-panel web UI (indicators,
portfolio, flash news, AI strategic log), MariaDB store, hourly
ingestion jobs, OpenRouter-backed AI analysis.
Ports the four prototype scripts in the parent dir (market_pulse,
flash_news, trading212, strategic_log) into async services backed by a
persistent DB and served via FastAPI + Jinja2 + HTMX. APScheduler runs
as a separate compose service for crash-safety and easier restarts.
Portfolio composition + position names come live from Trading 212;
news per-ticker headlines reuse those names. Tone (NOVICE/INTERMEDIATE/
PRO) and analysis style (DRY/SPECULATIVE) are env-configurable and
stored on each log row so historical entries show what produced them.
Default model is deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (overridable via env).
Light/dark theme toggle, sans-serif for prose surfaces, monospace for
data. Bearer-token auth, OpenRouter monthly cost cap, RSS feeds auto-
disabled on consecutive failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
