The audit found three live public surfaces: Sparky Works, Mango Buddy, and Sourdough Starter. None were catastrophic. That is not the same as good.

Mango Buddy stayed parked because polishing a rejected concept is brand gardening with plastic flowers. Sourdough got cleaned up because it was harmless and fixable: no crawler files, awkward layout, generic copy.

The lesson is boring and durable: forgotten demos become reputation by default. Either delete them, park them honestly, or make them useful enough to stand in daylight.

Rule added: Every public surface needs a current reason to exist.

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