Add canonical Financial Stream Phase 1 closure record

AGENTS.md

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+## Financial Stream project status
+
+Before making changes, read:
+
+- `PROJECT_STATUS.md`
+- `docs/FINANCIAL_STREAM_PHASE_1_CLOSURE.md`
+
+Financial Stream Phase 1 is closed. Do not begin general redesign or polishing work without explicit owner authorization.
+
+GitHub is the canonical project source of truth. Google Drive is backup/source-file storage.

PROJECT_STATUS.md

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+# Financial Stream Project Status
+
+**Current phase:** Phase 1 closed  
+**Canonical source of truth:** GitHub  
+**Primary active project:** ProAI Expert
+
+Before modifying this repository, read:
+
+- [`docs/FINANCIAL_STREAM_PHASE_1_CLOSURE.md`](docs/FINANCIAL_STREAM_PHASE_1_CLOSURE.md)
+
+Financial Stream general redesign and polishing work is paused.
+
+Only resume work for:
+
+- a reproducible production defect;
+- a required factual or compliance update;
+- explicit owner authorization;
+- the future full redesign phase.
+
+Google Drive contains secondary backup and source files. GitHub documentation is authoritative.

README.md

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 The site is designed to help visitors understand available services, review practical materials, and submit the information needed for an appropriate next step.
 
+## Project status
+
+See [`PROJECT_STATUS.md`](PROJECT_STATUS.md) before starting repository work.
+
 ## Core service areas
 
 - **Bookkeeping** — organization, cleanup, and ongoing record support.

docs/FINANCIAL_STREAM_PHASE_1_CLOSURE.md

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+# Financial Stream — Phase 1 Closure Record
+
+**Closure date:** August 6, 2026  
+**Repository:** `Financialstream/financialstream.github.io`  
+**Canonical source of truth:** GitHub  
+**Current main at closure:** `4e3fc2f2304fae7aee8407666cae055de8e3adfc`
+
+## Project status
+
+Financial Stream Phase 1 is complete.
+
+The website is temporarily closed for active development while primary work moves to ProAI Expert.
+
+Do not continue general polishing or redesign work unless:
+
+- a reproducible production defect is discovered;
+- a business-critical factual change is required;
+- a compliance or service requirement changes;
+- the owner explicitly starts the next Financial Stream redesign phase.
+
+## Source-of-truth policy
+
+GitHub is the canonical source of truth for:
+
+- production code;
+- production assets;
+- project documentation;
+- technical decisions;
+- current project status;
+- agent handoff instructions;
+- approved implementation history.
+
+Google Drive is a secondary backup and source-file archive.
+
+A Drive copy must never silently replace or override a newer GitHub version of this document.
+
+## Completed work
+
+### 1. Bilingual About pages
+
+Released pages:
+
+- `https://financialstreamllc.com/about/`
+- `https://financialstreamllc.com/ru/about/`
+
+Completed:
+
+- EN and RU production pages;
+- naturalized English and Russian copy;
+- restrained premium motion;
+- scroll reveal;
+- card interactions;
+- proof count-up;
+- reduced-motion support;
+- canonical logo and favicon pattern;
+- responsive structure;
+- EN/RU navigation;
+- homepage navigation integration;
+- homepage footer integration;
+- sitemap integration.
+
+### 2. Flagship bookkeeping articles
+
+Released pages:
+
+- `/blog/us-bookkeeping-small-business.html`
+- `/ru/blog/buhgalteriya-ssha-malogo-biznesa.html`
+
+Completed:
+
+- bilingual expert article structure;
+- author block;
+- article navigation;
+- FAQ;
+- source references;
+- service links;
+- homepage integration;
+- Materials integration;
+- sitemap integration;
+- EN/RU language links;
+- flagship hero image;
+- article favicon pattern;
+- Russian FAQ JSON-LD artifact cleanup.
+
+Canonical flagship hero image:
+
+`assets/img/blog/financial-stream-flagship-bookkeeping-hero.webp`
+
+Do not replace this asset without explicit owner approval.
+
+### 3. Approved Tetiana Horb portrait
+
+Canonical active portrait:
+
+`assets/img/team/tetiana-horb-ceo-approved.webp`
+
+The portrait is used by:
+
+- EN About hero;
+- RU About hero;
+- About image preload;
+- About Open Graph metadata;
+- About Twitter metadata;
+- EN flagship author block;
+- RU flagship author block;
+- EN Article JSON-LD author image;
+- RU Article JSON-LD author image.
+
+The active canonical portrait is:
+
+- WebP;
+- 960 × 1200 px;
+- 4:5 aspect ratio;
+- approximately 46 KB;
+- stored under the cache-busting approved filename.
+
+The previous active paths were removed:
+
+- `assets/img/about/tetiana-financial-stream-ceo.webp`
+- `assets/img/team/tetiana-horb-ceo.webp`
+
+Do not restore either old path.
+
+### 4. Portrait incident record
+
+PR #18 attempted to standardize the portrait but resulted in a corrupted or non-decodable WebP being deployed under active paths.
+
+Observed production symptoms included:
+
+- approximately 15 KB download;
+- broken-image icon;
+- Safari being unable to decode the file;
+- old cached portrait continuing to appear through an earlier URL.
+
+PR #19 superseded PR #18.
+
+PR #19:
+
+- restored a verified valid portrait;
+- introduced a new canonical cache-busting URL;
+- updated EN/RU About references;
+- updated EN/RU article references;
+- updated Open Graph and Twitter images;
+- updated Article JSON-LD;
+- removed old active portrait paths.
+
+PR #18 must not be treated as the final portrait implementation.
+
+PR #19 is the canonical final portrait repair.
+
+### 5. Important merged pull requests
+
+- PR #14 — premium bilingual About pages
+- PR #16 — Russian flagship FAQ schema cleanup
+- PR #17 — flagship article hero-image integration
+- PR #18 — unsuccessful portrait standardization, superseded
+- PR #19 — final portrait repair and canonical reference migration
+
+Verified PR #19 merge commit:
+
+`4e3fc2f2304fae7aee8407666cae055de8e3adfc`
+
+## Current approved business facts
+
+Preserve the following approved facts unless the owner explicitly changes them:
+
+- Financial Stream LLC;
+- Tetiana Horb / Татьяна Горб;
+- CEO, Financial Stream LLC;
+- Federal Way, Washington;
+- remote support across the United States;
+- English and Russian;
+- small businesses;
+- service-based businesses;
+- private clients;
+- 127+ companies supported;
+- 300+ tax forms and declarations prepared.
+
+Do not add unsupported claims such as:
+
+- CPA;
+- EA;
+- licensed accountant;
+- certified accountant;
+- degrees;
+- awards;
+- years of experience;
+- guarantees;
+- best-in-market claims;
+- invented biography.
+
+## Approved service structure
+
+Preserve the existing production service scope and wording unless the owner explicitly changes it.
+
+The active service structure includes:
+
+1. Bookkeeping / QuickBooks
+2. Tax Returns / Tax Preparation
+3. Sales Tax / DOR Reporting
+4. Payroll / L&I / Quarterly Reporting
+5. Business Setup / Company Formation
+6. Financial Consulting / Document Review
+
+Do not remove Payroll.
+
+Do not separate Financial Consulting from Document Review without explicit approval.
+
+## Intentionally deferred work
+
+The following work is deferred to a future redesign and is not a current blocker:
+
+- full visual redesign;
+- sitewide header standardization;
+- sitewide footer standardization;
+- uniform logo dimensions across legacy pages;
+- possible divider line below the header;
+- About links added to every legacy template;
+- stronger global motion system;
+- dedicated landscape social-preview images;
+- complete Playwright viewport matrix;
+- full modernization of older articles;
+- global design-token consolidation;
+- global navigation cleanup;
+- old content improvement program.
+
+Do not start any of these tasks automatically.
+
+## Social-preview cache note
+
+Telegram and other social platforms may preserve old preview images in their own cache.
+
+An old preview image is not automatically a website defect.
+
+Before changing production code:
+
+1. inspect current Open Graph metadata;
+2. open the current canonical image URL directly;
+3. test a new cache-busting URL;
+4. determine whether the problem is third-party cache or actual production HTML.
+
+Do not create speculative production fixes solely because an already-sent Telegram message shows an old image.
+
+## Rules for future agents
+
+Before modifying the project:
+
+1. Read `PROJECT_STATUS.md`.
+2. Read this closure record.
+3. Read the actual current `main`.
+4. Inspect production before modifying code.
+5. Do not reuse merged feature branches.
+6. Create one new branch per confirmed task.
+7. Create one focused PR per confirmed task.
+8. Preserve approved production assets unless explicitly instructed otherwise.
+9. Do not restore old portrait filenames.
+10. Do not treat PR #18 as the final portrait implementation.
+11. Do not expand task scope without explicit approval.
+12. Do not make broad redesign changes while Phase 1 remains closed.
+13. Keep GitHub documentation authoritative.
+14. Treat Google Drive copies as backups, not canonical replacements.
+
+## Restart procedure
+
+When Financial Stream work resumes:
+
+1. verify actual production state;
+2. verify the current main SHA;
+3. review changes made after this closure record;
+4. confirm whether the owner wants:
+   - a defect fix;
+   - a factual update;
+   - a new article;
+   - a service update;
+   - the full redesign phase;
+5. prepare one scoped implementation plan;
+6. avoid reopening completed Phase 1 work without a confirmed reason.
+
+## Final status
+
+`CLOSED — READY TO MOVE TO PROAI EXPERT`