You’re walking asnobody yet — you pick belowA look inside a business’s private pages
Every screen · the internal index
One machine, five kinds of door, every one of them walked all the way to its own ending.
The point of this walk is not to show you portals. It is to let you check, in an afternoon and for nothing, that a sixth kind of portal costs words and not a build — because that claim is the whole economics of the programme, and a drawing is the cheapest place it can be proved wrong.
This page is the whole list, kept for the people building this. Somebody arriving for the first time is asked two questions instead, and taken straight to the screens that answer them — the front door.
Everyone here is invented. Atlantica is a fictional beachwear maker; Marisol’s Beachwear and Hacienda Textiles are fictional businesses; Marisol Vega, Ravi Patel, Maria Reyes, James Tate, Ana Duarte and Tomas Vega are fictional people.
What the switch did, counted
Every persona-bearing screen carries an instrument that re-renders it for a different kind of person. A walk where that instrument can only succeed would prove nothing, so it is allowed to refuse — and both numbers are on this page rather than in a conversation.
The falsification counter
A screen that needs a different shape for a different kind of person — a control only one of them has, a section only one of them sees, a step only one of them walks — is not a fill, and the claim under this programme is weaker for each one. Three of them and the claim is not true.
Counted by cause, not by screen, and the difference matters. The one divergence surfaces on 4 screens — B9, C1, C2, C8 — but it is 2 finding, not 4. Counting the surfaces would put this walk one short of the three that would falsify the claim, on what is really a single cause: a member of the public has no record holding an address, so they cannot be invited. That is a second way in, not a second setting. The direction document predicted it and gave it its own screen. Among the four kinds that do hang off a record, nothing needed a different shape — which is the result the claim needed. The screen where that is written down.
The 9 walks that run end to end
- 1 · The strangerA1 A2 A3 A4 A5
- 2 · The firm publishesB1 B2 B3 B4 B5 D1 D2 D3
- 3 · Create a portalB1 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 X1 X2 X8 X9
- 4 · The customer, all the wayC1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8
- 5 · The claim, from both sidesC7 C8 B12 B11
- 6 · The unhappy pathsB9 X3 C7 X4 C8 X5 B5 X6 B1 X7
- 7 · Messages group by portalC6 C7 C2-5 B12
- 8 · The proof — one screen, two kindsB7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3
- 9 · The loopC2-5 E1 E2 A4
Act A — The stranger Lands, looks, makes an account, becomes a firm · 5 screens
- A1 · Public landingThe live page, with a firm’s own portals added to the story Part real
- A2 · See examplesThe two doors that already ask for nothing — walk the app, or take the tour Real today
- A3 · Create your accountName and address, and a plain statement of what the account does and does not do yet Not built
- A4 · Name your firmThe moment an account becomes a business — its name, its address, what it does Not built
- A5 · Your firm, first openEmpty and working — nothing in it, everything reachable, no setup fence anywhere Part real
Act B — The firm Writes its manual, publishes it, opens portals, runs them · 12 screens
- B1 · Firm homeThe seven areas with honest counts, and empty states that read as new rather than broken Real today
- B2 · The manualPages and sections, with which pages outsiders may read visible on the row itself Real today
- B3 · One manual pageThe page, and releasing it to outsiders as its own deliberate act — never a side-effect of saving Real today
- B4 · Publish your manualPick the sections, pick the address, and see exactly what a stranger will see before one can Part real
- B5 · Domain setupThe honest one: the two records to paste at your registrar, where they go, and the wait Not built
- B6 · Your portalsOne row per portal: who it is for, how many people are in it, whether it is open Not built
- B7 · Choosing who a portal is forChoosing who a portal is for, with what they will see and do said before you pick Not built
- B8 · Writing their first screenWriting the first screen they land on — the welcome, and the one first thing to do Not built
- B9 · Invite peopleFrom the right record for this kind — and for a kind with no records, the honest different answer Part real
- B10 · One person’s accessInvited · signed in · never used · withdrawn. Four real states, said in words on the row Part real
- B11 · A claim, firm sideReceived, inspected, verdict, wait, shipped — and the line the customer will read, being written Not built
- B12 · Every message in one queueOne queue. Every message wearing the door it came through Part real
Act C — The people it opens a door onto One set of screens, five kinds of person, each ending in their own words · 10 screens
- C1 · The invitationWhat arrives by email — from Atlantica, not from us Part real
- C2 · Sign inSigning in — and nothing on this screen is ours Part real
- C3 · First run — welcomeThe first thing they see, in Atlantica’s own words Not built
- C4 · Client homeEverything that’s theirs, at one glance Not built
- C5 · What outsiders can readThe pages Atlantica lets them read — and no hint of the rest Part real
- C6 · Ask a questionAsking a question, and getting Atlantica’s own answer back Part real
- C7 · Coverage, and file a claimWhat’s covered, and claiming without hunting for a form Not built
- C8 · Watching the claimWatching a claim instead of chasing it Not built
- NEW1 · Check what’s coveredChecking cover on something you bought, with no account at all Not built
- C2-5 · Confirm a shipmentTelling Atlantica it shipped, and being finished Not built
Act D — The public page The firm’s manual on the firm’s own address · 3 screens
Act E — The loop Someone in a portal opens their own firm · 2 screens
Act X — The edges Expired, withdrawn, refused, failed, not included · 9 screens
- X1 · Invitation expiredWhat it says when the link has run out, without blaming the reader Part real
- X2 · Access withdrawnWhat the person sees, and who at the firm to ask Part real
- X3 · No email on recordThe firm’s screen when an invitation cannot be sent, and what to do instead of typing one in Not built
- X4 · Nothing coveredCoverage that ran out, or never existed, in plain words rather than an empty table Not built
- X5 · A claim refusedThe verdict, the reason, and what they can still do — the hardest screen in the walk Not built
- X6 · Domain failed to verifyWhat went wrong, at which record, and how to try again without starting over Not built
- X7 · Not in this planSaid once, as a sentence — never a row of dead buttons and never an advertisement Part real
- X8 · No records to invite fromThe public-facing kind: the honest different answer, and the fact that it is a different way in Not built
- X9 · No welcome written yetWhat the first arrival sees, and how the firm is told before anybody arrives Not built