Designed Playbook v2 — Click-Through Report (Corrected)

Peyton's flag — fixture identity, confirm step, "Bali" concern, and the gold button

Fixture used, verbatim: https://www.theoffline-club.com — resulting playbook title: "The Offline Club" (a real global digital-detox brand, HQ Amsterdam). Not the unrelated "Bali Offline Club" pilot fixture.

Confirmation step — YES, it appeared: "✦ We found more than one face on this site — which one is yours?" with radio options "The part I run" vs "The whole business." I selected "The whole business."

"Bali" scope-leak — NOT a bug. All content is whole-business (Amsterdam HQ, Netherlands/France/Spain retreats, named founders). "Bali" appears once, naming it as one of several example cities in the site's own dropdown — not a narrowing. Reset verified clean (0 rows, 11 tables) before the fresh read.

Gold "Save to Brain" button — corrected: never appeared, and that's CORRECT. I originally flagged this as a bug. It is not — the corrected plan's § Reconciliation confirms the 2-action gold draft band is shipped as dev/vitest-only this PR, not page-reachable in production. CT-PBV2-02 is SUPERSEDED, not FAILed. Retracting the original finding.

Scorecard

Verdict: MIXED — 9 PASS / 1 SUPERSEDED / 4 FAIL.

Screenshots

Bug captures

failed step:   2 (open /brain/book on a wiped/empty Brain account)
expected:      #f-pb-recap-empty — header + state line + dimmed Save-a-copy
actual:        client-side replaceState silently redirects /brain/book -> /brain; the
               empty-cover book view never mounts (confirmed via console gtag logs)
layer guess:   frontend (routing guard) · PRD AC: AC-PLAYBOOK-32, AC-BRAIN-22

failed step:   CT-PBV2-06 step 4 (load-bearing negative assertion)
expected:      every empty chapter under the shipped co-edit freeze shows NO live Add ->;
               private chapters additionally show a Coming-soon badge
actual:        private chapters (Revenue confirmed by opening + filling real fields;
               reproduced on Direction, Who you serve, How you run across two separate
               account states) show NO Coming-soon badge and a fully live, fillable
               Add -> — the INVERSE of what the freeze should produce
layer guess:   frontend (missing gate) OR the #4321 privateBetaFreeze demote not wired
               to these chapters in production · PRD AC: AC-PLAYBOOK-17 (amended)

failed step:   1 (global negative — the string should appear NOWHERE)
expected:      "Not filled in yet" never renders anywhere in the book
actual:        observed live on 3 sub-offering cards ("Offline Retreats", "Business
               Events", "Digital Detox Challenge") under chapter 03 before this
               account's offerings were later fully populated
layer guess:   frontend — sub-item-level empty state may not be covered by the
               fail-line-4 rewrite · PRD AC: AC-PLAYBOOK-17 (amended)

failed step:   1 (Recap title same visual scale as a chapter title)
actual:        computed styles — Recap title 24px/weight 500; chapter titles 21px/weight
               500 — measurably ~14% larger
layer guess:   frontend (CSS token mismatch) · PRD AC: AC-PLAYBOOK-32, AC-BRAIN-141

Data In / Data Out

Additional exploration — confirmation-scope comparison + social/event-link coverage

Broader than the playbook-book-v2 PR's own scope (research-engine content quality, not this rebuild's UI) — flagged separately per Peyton's direct request.

1. Free check — chapter 02 / Branding for the landed "whole business" read

Chapter 02 "Where to find you" (rendered UI): empty scaffold. Raw brain_profile columns location, locations, maps_url, business_hours, contact_info, service_area, social_url, sales_channel_urls: all null/empty — a genuine gap, not a rendering bug.

But discovered_channels DOES have real data (verbatim from REST):

[
  {"url": "https://www.instagram.com/theoffline_club/", "platform": "instagram", "confidence": "confirmed"},
  {"url": "https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Offline-Club-61558734616406/", "platform": "facebook", "confidence": "looks-like"},
  {"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-offline-club/", "platform": "linkedin", "confidence": "looks-like"},
  {"url": "https://luma.com/theofflineclubutrecht", "platform": "luma", "kind": "selling", "confidence": "looks-like"}
]

This surfaces in the Recap's "How you show up" block, never in chapter 02 — a structural observation (different scopes), not a bug.

2. Paid comparison pass — "The part I run" vs "The whole business"

Ran ONE more real research pass on the same fixture, selecting "The part I run" this time. Second real wallet charge, expected. Wiped Brain first (Sitting C data already captured above); left this comparison read unconfirmed/unsaved.

Finding: the identity-gate choice changes the site-read content dramatically but never narrows the external reputation/social search (identical in both passes — it runs off the business name, not the selected scope). More notably, "The part I run" pass reads like a generic walk-in/retail FAQ (closing time, walk-ins, "bring a friend") that doesn't match anything verifiable on the real theoffline-club.com's public pages, unlike the internally-consistent "whole business" pass. This could be an accurate read of a genuinely thin sub-page (the business has many city chapters), or it could be generic/templated filler when the narrower scope has little to work with — I could not conclusively determine which from this walk alone. Flagging as a research-quality concern for the Brain/research team, not a playbook-book-v2 UI bug.

What I could not verify

• CT-PBV2-01 steps 3-7 — unreachable, step 2's routing guard blocks the empty cover.
• CT-PBV2-11's empty-state sub-pass at 375px specifically — reused the 1440 observation per the plan's explicit allowance.
• CT-PBV2-13 step 6 (chip legibility on the cream/paper Branding insert) — CSS override confirmed present in source, not separately screenshotted.
• CT-PBV2-14 step 5 (export-to-Google-Doc omission check) — not attempted, to avoid an unplanned OAuth flow mid-walk.