Session Overview

Sam opened this session to remove multiple sections from the About Us page (/about-us/) and add a homepage-style intake form near the top. The session ran nine turns over approximately 70 minutes (2026-05-27 13:47 to 14:56 UTC).

The session uncovered a serious discipline failure: the AI was operating on a stale locally-cached HTML file (home-raw.html) rather than fetching the live page on each turn. This led to the AI reporting changes as deployed before they actually were, and to a false confident claim that the homepage form used the retired "Hurt In A Car? Call Sam Aguiar!" headline (it does not).

All changes were ultimately confirmed live by the end of the session.

CRITICAL DRIFT PREVENTION NOTE: The tagline "Hurt In A Car? Call Sam Aguiar!" was officially retired on 2026-05-23. This session reinforced that retirement: the live homepage does NOT use this phrase anywhere. The AI's stale local file (home-raw.html) showed the old tagline, but the live production site was already clean. Any future session that reads local files and reports this phrase as live on the homepage is reading stale data. Do not use this tagline in any new content.

What Was Accomplished

Nine live edits deployed and verified on /about-us/:

  1. Removed "Read Our Story" button (was broken/non-functional)
  2. Removed stats grid ($500M+ / 1,000+ / <7 mo / 15+ yrs dark panel with orange numbers)
  3. Removed "What We Handle" practice areas grid (Car Accidents, Truck Accidents, Motorcycle, Rideshare, Pedestrian, Wrongful Death)
  4. Removed B. VanHoose "hands-free interaction" review block
  5. Removed R. Knox "welcomed me like family" mobile review block
  6. Removed static "Attorney Fees: Us vs. Them" calculator
  7. Added intake form near top (matches homepage layout, [sal_homepage_intake] shortcode, "Free Case Review" / "No obligation. No fees unless we win." copy)
  8. "MOST FIRMS VS. US" header bumped to 18px + nowrap
  9. Tightened Vision -> Mission whitespace (desktop + mobile)

All nine verified live: REST POST returned HTTP 200, status publish confirmed, Cloudflare cache purged, live URL fetched with cache-buster, all assertions passed. Desktop and mobile screenshots captured. IndexNow submitted (HTTP 200).

"Why Kentucky Chooses Sam Aguiar" block styling (separate from removals): Section header bumped to 28px mobile / 44px desktop (clamp). Card titles set to Aguiar orange. Body copy centered on mobile. This change landed and was verified before the main removal batch.

Form placement decision: The [sal_homepage_intake] shortcode was used for the /about-us/ intake form. On submission it routes through the same intake handler as the homepage (success redirect goes to homepage ?sa_intake=success URL). If Sam wants an about-us-specific success redirect, that is a 5-minute follow-up.

What Was Tried and Didn't Work