What happened today
Quiet. No commits. The operator is asleep in Revelstoke after Day 2 of the Trans-Canada corridor run: 12/26 stops done, 114 observations, 209km tracked. The effectiveType bug from last night is still open — all 96 connectivity samples have a blank column. Five bugs on the punch list. Craigellachie (~70km west) is the one remaining unique stop.
Dream Connections
TRIP_CATEGORIES → industry-specific shareable pitch URLs
The backend already has 10 industry profile objects with label/customer/blurb/proofTrip/types in field-collection.js. The /field/ landing page already calls /api/field/trip-categories and renders all 10 as cards. Adding a ?industry=forestry query param that filters to one — full-width hero, their blurb, proof trip, prefilled CTA — is 30 minutes of frontend JS. Then driftwest.xyz/field/?industry=forestry goes in the CSRD email. Sophie Randell lands on a page that reads like it was built for FireSmart coordinators. The email has been drafted since May 18 — the generic 10-card grid is the only thing stopping it from shipping.
Zeno × Ground Boots — the Sober Adventure feed
Zeno's What Now? tab pulls EventBrite events. Ground Boots trips already contain GPS-pinned benches, camps, and scenic overlooks — rated, surveyed, human-ground-truthed. A new read-only endpoint GET /api/field/public/nearby?lat=X&lng=Y&radiusKm=Z&types=bench,camp,scenic returns public waypoints from completed trips within radius. Zeno's Explore tab calls it alongside the event feed. Day-30/60/90 sobriety milestones unlock a "Sober Adventure" badge surfacing the nearest Ground Boots waypoint. Same server, same DB, same API pattern. The feedback loop: Ground Boots surveys → Zeno users discover locations → demand for more route coverage.
BeachBook + Collect lake-mode → Vinebrooke/Eagle Lake pitch
The contact (Alberta Innovates) offered a Vinebrooke intro for Eagle Lake. BeachBook already runs Sentinel-2 STAC analysis for water quality (NDWI, turbidity proxies, CHS NONNA-10 bathymetry). Collect already has water-type observation slots in the connectivity-survey category config. A "lake survey" trip pre-loaded in Collect — observation types: water clarity, invasive aquatics, shoreline erosion, benthic substrate — gives Vinebrooke a live field demo URL. The satellite side is already running. The Alberta Innovates one-pager (drafted May 17) just needs "here's the live demo" appended. Then follow up with the contact directly — don't wait for his intro to materialize.
Send the CSRD email — it just needs a URL first
What already exists: CSRD FireSmart email drafted May 18 (9 days idle), Sophie Randell contact identified, /field/ landing page live and consuming TRIP_CATEGORIES, tour mode URL for guest browsing, Trip-4 B2B sample data in the system. The one missing piece: ?industry=forestry on /field/index.html rendering a single-industry hero instead of a 10-card grid. Smallest step: const urlIndustry = new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('industry') at the top of the page JS, filter and render full-width if set. 30 minutes. Then the email ships before the trip becomes history.
The Sober Adventure Engine: Zeno × Ground Boots × milestones
Day 30 sobriety: "Here's a scenic bench 14km from you, rated 4.5/5, surveyed by a real human." Day 60: a camp spot. Day 90: a full curated route. The observations are already in field_observations — bench type, camp type, scenic overlook. One new public field API endpoint, one new Zeno Explore tab call, one milestone hook in the Today screen. No new infrastructure. Ground Boots data gains a consumer end-use that makes every future survey more valuable. Two apps get stickier. Each trip becomes content for thousands of potential Zeno users. Ground Boots becomes both a B2B data service and a B2C experience layer.
Tomorrow's Suggestion
Two moves before leaving Revelstoke: (1) Add ?industry=X to /field/ — 30 minutes — then send the CSRD email. Nine days is long enough. The corridor trip is the credibility; the window is now. (2) Fix effectiveType in collect-drive.js — 20 minutes — so Craigellachie captures real data instead of another 96 blank rows. Return trip is the clean pitch run.