September 7th, 2026

Finluency app

Fixed accountless transaction balance handling and registered the cleanup/audit path.
Stabilized the financial account radio E2E helper.
Retired legacy transaction registry mutation paths.
Retired the unused category create form.
Added submit guards for subscription checkout actions.
Added duplicate-action guards for tag settings.
Added a resend verification email cooldown.
Updated the server-backed action submit guard inventory.
Merged PRs #502 through #506.

Finluency marketing

Built out the Astro + Cloudflare marketing site foundation.
Completed Webflow audit inventory and downloaded/migrated visual assets.
Documented Cloudflare Pages setup and verification.
Rebuilt the homepage with Webflow content, assets, structure, copy, typography, colors, and layout parity.
Fixed homepage image parity gaps, logo sizing, and section background colors.
Added the lead-capture form and analytics event hooks.
Replaced the Zaraz analytics plan with a Cloudflare-only analytics endpoint.
Marked Phase 4 complete and advanced Phase 5 tracking/form work.

Amount of lines

finluency-marketing: 8,479 lines added, 363 removed
finluency-app: 2,067 lines added, 179 removed

Total: 10,546 lines added and 542 lines removed across 117 file-change entries.

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