The ZAOIMan Desk
12days to
ZAOstock

Status

As of Mon 21 Sept 2026, 16:15 CAT, on desk. Written by IMan. ZAOstock is 12 days out. The stream test window closes tonight.

Now

Zaal answered six questions on desk #11 at 21:20 CAT, and the call at 22:36 CAT is transcribed (recording in his DM). Rulings: /live audio from BetterCallZaal, after-party not streamed, watch parties before the day, OPEN X runs their own PA (ask Ryan), no First Aid booking, crypto both ways. New for IMan: share his daily points challenge, one a day for a week, next ends 5 PM ET 22 Sept. Hold open Stripe fixes: tickets may move to Unlock (#10, answered: IMan is not mid-way). Both of today's first steps are done. The 20 Sept call is transcribed and on the desk. Desk #9 is closed: the Gmail triage routine runs daily at 8am CAT from IMan's account, first run passed, digest in updates/gmail-triage-2026-09-21.md. New from that digest: the Ellsworth Chamber wants a poster (task 14).

  1. Card payments are live, confirmed by Zaal on the call. How to pay today: /tickets is card only (Stripe); /donate is card, PayPal, or crypto through Giveth (USDC on Base preferred). No crypto on /tickets until the Unlock lock exists, or Zaal switches crypto on inside Stripe checkout (Suggestion 8). Zaal pasted both Stripe links on 20 Sept evening (#256, #263) and embedded the Buy Button (#265). zaostock.com/tickets and /donate check out. Needs Zaal 10 closed. Only the Unlock lock is unset, no rush. Playwright run due 26 Sept (#237).
  2. Acts on the site: 8 of 8, every bio in. Photos 6 of 8: Grass Rug and Acadia Rising still have none. The deadline was yesterday.
  3. Stream test window closes tonight. No pin yet. WATCH_HREF on /live waits on it. /live still has no player; the yes or no (Needs Zaal 15) went to Zaal again this morning, tagged to ZOE.
  4. Main is 7a655b1. 44 commits since yesterday morning, #250 to #281, nearly all Zaal's assistant on 20 Sept evening ET: checkout, /thanks, /terms, /support, /brand front door, facts read from festival.ts, the /festivals Instagram embed replaced.
  5. The 20 Sept call, Zaal and Danny (blahkheart), transcribed. Danny is in the ZAO Artizen fund, his stream is Wed 7 Oct 5pm ET. A Wave Station daily quest agreed: $1 of an artist a day on Base, 5 cents back, 10 spots for two weeks, after 3 Oct. Zaal wants IMan and Danny in a group, and a ZAO Artizen team site after 3 Oct, not yet assigned. Notes: updates/2026-09-21.md.
  6. ZOE relay is lossy. Zaal asked her last night for the questions IMan sent through her and she could not show him. From today every sign-in and sign-out tags @zaoclaw_bot and carries the questions itself. Checked in 13:05 CAT, tagged 13:10.
  7. Master doc: paste refreshed 21 Sept, drafts/2026-09-21-master-doc-paste.md. Checked against the live doc tonight: six lines are wrong (the 17 Sept draft had four), plus a new standup entry. About ten minutes by hand once the doc opens as Editing.
  8. Gemini key: Zaal's seat said "ask IMan". IMan has none. One new key by DM closes it.
  9. Facebook admin check (task 13): who has admin and payment access on the zaofestivals page and ad account. By hand, before the ads run. 9b. Stripe checkout test (task 15): Zaal offered $20 by DM this morning to test the live checkout. IMan said yes. Waits on the $20, then one real purchase and a report on #8. 9a. Poster for the Ellsworth Area Chamber (task 14): Katelin Workman asked Zaal for one; he forwarded it to info@thezao and nobody has replied. Made 21 Sept 22:12 CAT: Letter PDF and 300 dpi PNG from the 20 Sept flyer, same words, and a reply for Zaal. With IMan to check, then Zaal sends it to Katelin. Her ask is from 31 Aug.
  10. Drone clips: eight received 19 Sept. Top picks go to the ZAO Festivals group. Still to come: the DJ app repo, the deck photo, the call footage.
  11. Backstage pages: closed by Zaal 21 Sept, the round is not needed.
  12. Radio spot, Star 97.7, 19 Sept: copy was with Zaal. No word on whether it aired.
  13. Video ad: IMan on the final cut. Ad set to Zaal when done.
  14. The desk site is current again, deployed 15:49 CAT: task pages and the new look are live at iman-desk.vercel.app. It took seven tries. The real block: Vercel refuses deploys whose git commit author (ZAODEVZ) is not in the trsr2218 hobby team. Fix: npm run deploy ships the built output from a git-free folder. desk.thezao.com still has no DNS record (Needs Zaal 14).
  15. Cowork bot card #1282, the standing daily PR review, nudges every four hours.

Settled, do not re-ask

Suggestions and questions

Five calls that are Zaal's, each with a suggestion attached so a yes or no is enough. None of them blocks anything: README.md.

Waiting on Zaal

Two photos (Grass Rug, Acadia Rising), the eight outreach messages, a Gemini key, the reply to Steve, the stream test pin, the DJ app repo and deck photo, the call footage, a yes or no on a /live player, the DNS line, the group with Danny. Full list: README.md.

Zaal's cadence, from 15 Sept

Three check-ins a day: 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM and 4:00 PM ET, re-confirmed by both by DM 21 Sept. Three or more questions gets a call or a voice note, not a typed reply. Discord call set by DM for 15:30 CAT, 9:30 ET, 21 Sept. Brief: drafts/2026-09-21-call-brief.md.

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