The live production projection is loading.
No older field report is shown as the current total.
These files stay as they were published. A newer production total does not rewrite them.
Running is not healthy, and fresh is not progress.
The public record now separates a live feed from degraded operations: 1 committed provider acceptance is recorded, delivery is not proven, and no reply or paying customer is verified.
Every major AI crawler can now read this site - and the one that was missing
A full audit found Applebot missing from robots.txt entirely. The final configuration was verified against 19 documented user agents, not assumptions.
The waitlist form said 'unavailable' - it had actually saved your email
A React lifecycle bug made every successful signup display a failure message. The infrastructure told the user a lie, and nobody noticed until someone read the code against the network log.
Ask AI: we invite independent AIs to fact-check this site
NIKO's core authority pages, comparison surfaces, and all 37 research articles carry source-rich prompts that ask AI assistants to separate claims from evidence and cite the canonical source.
What NIKO has not proven (running list)
One prospect send is committed with provider acceptance and matching Gmail Sent evidence. Delivery is not proven. No reply, qualification, negotiation, waitlist close, paid customer, or revenue has been demonstrated.
The site looked fine and was crashing: a dual React instance post-mortem
A lazy-loaded 3D scene bundled a second copy of React 19's internals. The manifesto page threw on every device behind a page that rendered normally. The lesson: a passing screenshot is not a passing site.
The zero-send record: what 0 emails meant on 29 August
This historical entry records the 29 August local snapshot: 102 prospects evaluated and 0 emails sent at that time. It is not the current production total.