Every shipped change to Counsel.day, dated and in plain language.
A dated, versioned record of every change to the marketing site, the application, the verdict pipeline, the pricing, and the policies. Newest releases at the top. No marketing varnish, no "we're excited to announce"; the change, when it shipped, what it does, and what it replaced.
Iteration 8 · the white-and-wine brand. Current
A full deep-rebuild of the public marketing site to a new visual language we call white and wine. The iteration replaces the sealed-record visual language used in v0.4 with a quieter, paper-and-ink article surface, and introduces the wine accent (#722F37) as the single colour signal across all surfaces.
- Paper is now pure white (#ffffff); body copy is set in Source Serif 4 with a deep-ink ramp (#0a0a0a through #6b635a).
- Display type is Newsreader, with italics carrying the wine accent on every emphasis call.
- UI type is Geist; metadata type is Geist Mono. The previous fonts (Inter, Fraunces, Public Sans, IBM Plex Mono) have been removed; none are referenced.
- GA4 funnel tracking has been added across the funnel pages with
ga4.jsloaded at the bottom of every page. - The press, security, status, changelog, help, accessibility, editorial-standards, and practitioner-referral pages have been rewritten to the new pattern; nine pages in total.
The sealed-record iteration. Superseded
An experimental visual language built around the metaphor of a sealed archive: wax-seal motifs, cream paper, deep-clay accents, and file-folder typography across the marketing site. The iteration shipped, ran for five days, and was retired on 15 May 2026 in favour of the white-and-wine language above. The page architecture (sections, comparison grids, mechanism panels) was kept; the visual treatment was replaced.
Initial public site.
Counsel.day opened to the public web for the first time. The site at this stage was a single long homepage explaining the method, with one secondary page for pricing and one for the founder's note. The application was in private beta with a waitlist.
Verdict pipeline · the five-layer analysis.
The verdict view shipped with the five-layer analysis: agreement rate, conviction trajectory, theme extraction from each voter's notes, the synthesis paragraph, and the single concrete question to open the conversation that follows. Solo (free) tier returns a numerical summary only; paid tiers receive the AI-written verdict paragraph generated by Verdict AI.
The evening vote, sealed by design.
The evening vote shipped in private beta with the sealed read path enforced at the database. The architecture refuses any read of a vote row before the verdict timestamp; no admin override, no support escape hatch. The first private beta cohort began voting on real questions this evening.
Account and billing scaffolding.
Account creation, multi-factor authentication, password reset, billing setup, and the three editions (Solo, Couple, Family) shipped end to end. All pricing is in USD worldwide; no regional pricing differences.
Database, key management, backups.
Primary Postgres with row-level security shipped, with the sealed read path as the only application-level read path for vote and note tables. Infisical was added as the secrets manager for KEK rotation; nightly encrypted backups to two EU object stores were enabled.
Project started.
The Counsel.day company was registered in New Zealand; James Graham began work on the method, the architecture, and the first wireframes. No public surface; this entry is here only for archival completeness.