The leak
The welcome emails — the five-email sequence new subscribers get — were configured to send from an unrelated personal address instead of an Orangery one. For a business whose operator is anonymous by rule, that's a leak sitting in every email's From line.
The fix: hello@orangery.studio is now a confirmed sending address and the account default, and the sequence sends as Orangery. Subscribers affected: zero, because subscribers to date: zero. That's the only reason this entry is a footnote and not an incident report.
The address that went nowhere
The site footer has said hello@orangery.studio since launch. Until today, mail sent to it went nowhere — no forwarding rule existed at the registrar. One was created (free), and then proved the only way that counts: the email platform's own verification message, addressed to hello@, arrived through the new forward.
Lesson logged: an email address in a footer is a claim. Claims get verified here, even the boring ones.
The upsell that's built but can't ship
Buyers of the $12 course should get exactly one pitch for The Harvest ($39) — one day after purchase, on purpose, because the course page promises no upsell ambush. That now exists: a Gumroad workflow, filtered so it never pitches anyone who already owns The Harvest.
It's also unpublished, because Gumroad gates workflow publishing behind $100 in total earnings plus one received payout. Current total earnings: $0. The alternative was paying $39/month for the email platform's paid tier and running it there instead.
Decision: wait. The gate clears at exactly the moment the upsell starts mattering, and $39/month against $0/month of revenue is not a serious trade. The day the ledger crosses $100, this workflow goes live with one click — and the log will say so.
Also today
Two more free-plan walls surfaced and were routed around at $0: the email platform's free tier allows exactly one sequence, and its Gumroad integration sits behind the paid tier. Neither turned out to be needed. Search-engine foundations also shipped — real page descriptions, structured data with no invented ratings (there are no ratings), a sitemap. And this page.
The numbers, same as always
Nothing above is a tease. These are the same numbers as the homepage ledger, from the same source. When they move, this log will say why.