Today — Wed 01 Jul
Hiring platform (Loaf'd-first → Hospitech product)Mark added the Cloudflare CNAME careers→cname.vercel-dns.com (DNS-only) himself (Chrome MCP hung on CF's SPA loading screen; wrangler token is Arch-account + zone-read-only so Claude couldn't add DNS). DNS verified, no CAA block. SSL was …
Hiring platform (Loaf'd-first → Hospitech product)Built + shipped employer self-serve (invite-only). Auth: custom email magic-link + HMAC-signed cookie session (SESSION_SECRET; reuses crypto/Resend/cookie patterns rather than Supabase Auth — migrate later at self-serve signup). Migration …
Mon 29 Jun
Social/Meta tooling (all sessions)SECOND Breakroom paid ad LIVE: Student Night (first evergreen). Recurring weekly offer (Student Night every Tue · €12/hr table · €2 BYOB) → always-on ad vs the per-event comp. Campaign 120245551309040137 "Student Night — Evergreen" …
Arch/OSH holiday planner + roster toolAdded 2 approved holidays for Mark (4 Jul; 27 Aug–1 Sep) + a Firm block on 19 Jul, written directly to the live sheet in the app's own format. Then a 19–20 Jul request still came in (Gabriel Esteban, OSH) after the block → root-caused: the …
Arch/OSH holiday planner + roster toolNew hard department-capacity lock built + deployed @38: a request is hard-blocked at submit when ≥cap OTHER staff are already Approved off (same venue+dept, overlapping). Caps: Waiting Staff = 2, all others = 1 (Senior/Bar Staff/Cellar …
Arch/OSH holiday planner + roster toolReconciled the planner with the roster-builder (sibling session) per its return prompt. Decision: two tools, one data source — planner = source of truth for HR core (names, dept, rotations, paired, blocked dates); roster builder consumes …
Arch/OSH holiday planner + roster toolRoster replied: it auths to Sheets API (tab reads), can't call Apps Script fns. So (1) created a read-only Patterns tab (Name|dept|location|days_off|rotationA|rotationB|anchorSat|anchorWeek, day-NAME strings, 23 rows) mirroring …
Arch/OSH holiday planner + roster toolMark's calls applied: Willie→William Mc Cormack (Staff sheet + 8 Requests rows + seed; his Sun,Mon rotation+lookup now resolve, Patterns dept filled); Rosaleen Byrne stays roster-only (not added); Keith Bell (fixed Mon,Wed), Pat Crosbie …
Sun 28 Jun
Weekly roster cycleW29 (4–10 Jul) generated. Then process hardening (4 features, all tested): (1) weekly_run.py auto-stages a missing T-14 source from the previous generated_<MMDD>/ folder — kills the weekly manual copy+merge; (2) planner_aliases map …
Sat 27 Jun
Loaf'd brand pack v1.0 + marketing advisorMark onboarded Claude as Loaf'd's social/marketing advisor + handed over a Claude Design brand pack. Handoff zip (~/Downloads/Loaf'd Brand Package-handoff.zip) extracted to loafd-brand-pack/loaf-d-brand-package/project/. Implemented …
Loaf'd brand pack v1.0 + marketing advisorMark confirmed the pack's raspberry (#9E2E5F DEEPER) + Bowlby One SC as-is (no token changes), and approved deploy. Built a clean 1.1MB deploy bundle (loafd-brand-pack/dist/ — brand-pack.html + index.html copy, brand-deck.html …
Hiring platform (Loaf'd-first → Hospitech product)Originated from Loaf'd recruitment (live FB/IG "Chefs & FOH" ad landing real emailed applications). Mark wants to own the funnel + productise it. Brainstormed the venture: the moat is social distribution (each client brings candidate …
Hiring platform (Loaf'd-first → Hospitech product)Mark confirmed email-only verification (no SMS), Resend, Cloudflare DNS (from HACCP), laptop left open. Built the full Phase 1 Next.js 16 app (mirrors LOAFD_STACK_HANDOFF): careers home (/), apply form per role (/apply/[slug], Turnstile + …
Hiring platform (Loaf'd-first → Hospitech product)Mark pasted Supabase service-role key → ran full local smoke test against live DB (createApplication → email-confirm → manager-ping all ✓, then cleaned test data). Deployed to Vercel via API + Vercel token (no CLI): pushed repo to …
Fri 26 Jun
Weekly roster cycleW28 (27 Jun–3 Jul) uploaded + verified (388 shifts, 28 PAs, 77 H-codes, 0 mismatches). 12 over-cap staff trimmed to ≤5 (Mark's per-staff calls). Two guards fired: (1) bare first-name token "Ava" falsely matched "Savage, Lorcan Doyle" via …
Loaf'd financial dashboardNew PdfInvoice.gs: extractPdfInvoice_ converts a PDF attachment to text via Drive OCR (throwaway Google Doc, then deleted), reads the total (parseInvoiceTotal_ — labelled total → "X.XX EUR" → max fallback) + the site (detectLocation_ on …
Loaf'd financial dashboardMark's call: all invoices to land at hello@ (he'll set forwarding/billing). Established the routing reality first: supplier invoices currently hit BOTH hello@loafd.ie AND kearnsam (Sysco/Conaty in each) — split. Deciphered the …
Loaf'd financial dashboardMark's UX idea: a "command-center" landing = a tile per café + a Group tile, each showing week-to-date Net Sales (hero) · GP% · Wage% · Purchases, GP%/Wage% colour-banded (green/amber/red). Tap a tile → drills into that site's existing …