Build log

Shipped

• +Break-even calculator with a cost-volume-profit chart, eight industry presets, and a cash-versus-accounting mode.
• +Employee true-cost calculator wired to federal rates transcribed from the SSA and the IRS this week.
• +All six service pages, honestly labelled, with published intake scripts and waitlists.

Broke

• !The first version of the foreign-LLC comparison carried a branch that reported the two-state structure as cheaper. It was unreachable — you pay the home state either way — so the branch was deleted and the finding written down instead. A branch that cannot fire is a lie about the model.
• !A bulk rename read UTF-8 files as ANSI and double-encoded every dash on eleven pages. Caught by eye, repaired, and the tooling changed so it cannot recur.

Cut, and why

• −Three.js for the hero. Five hundred kilobytes to animate points of light, on a site whose entire promise is speed, is an argument against itself.

Shipped

• +The 2026 Social Security wage base ($184,500), Medicare rates, and FUTA — each read on the agency’s own page and quoted verbatim in the pack.

Broke

• !Two federal hosts refuse an ordinary fetch. Both cleared with a plain curl carrying browser headers — no headless browser needed. Written up so the next site does not spend the afternoon on it.

Cut, and why

• −California and the Virgin Islands are on the DOL’s POTENTIAL FUTA credit-reduction list for 2026, and we left both out of the data. The determination is not made until 10 November, and the add-on that inflates California’s figure has been waived every year since 2013. Publishing the potential number would have overstated a California employer’s cost by around $287 per employee. The pack expires on 15 November so it fails loudly the moment the real figure exists.