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  "name": "GSE Production Launch Readiness Index",
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  "truth_boundary": "This file describes package controls and required acceptance evidence. It does not assert that the live server, public endpoints, mail, analytics, Search Console, or RFQ delivery have passed.",
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    "technical_guides": 36,
    "managed_assets": 206,
    "substantive_words": 100024,
    "internal_links": 1171,
    "unresolved_internal_targets": 0,
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    "manufacturer_oem_pages": 43,
    "manufacturer_product_family_paths": 13,
    "phase12_conversion_pages": 11,
    "phase14_pages": 26,
    "phase14_page_words": 10185,
    "phase14_append_words": 564,
    "phase14_datasets": 4,
    "phase14_interactive_tools": 3,
    "phase14_downloadable_templates": 3,
    "phase14_glossary_terms": 42
  },
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    "growth_bootstrap_version": "9.0.0",
    "conversion_engine_version": "9.0.0",
    "launch_audit_version": "9.0.0",
    "privacy_hardened_confirmation_redirect": true,
    "lead_reference_in_url": false,
    "legacy_confirmation_query_cleanup": true,
    "rfq_cache_exclusions": true,
    "dynamic_robots_authority": true,
    "public_health_endpoint": "/wp-json/gse/v1/health",
    "wordpress_site_health_tests": [
      "cumulative release integrity",
      "public endpoint accessibility",
      "RFQ route ownership"
    ],
    "market_ownership_engine_version": "9.0.0",
    "market_ownership_health_endpoint": "/wp-json/gse/v1/market-ownership"
  },
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    "php_minimum": "7.4",
    "rank_math": "1.0.276",
    "contact_form_7": "6.1.6",
    "site_kit": "1.185.0",
    "limit_login_attempts_reloaded": "3.3.5",
    "wp_super_cache": "3.1.1"
  },
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    "bundled_site_kit": "1.180.0",
    "bundled_limit_login_attempts_reloaded": "3.2.4",
    "purpose": "sanitized disaster-recovery fallback, not the accepted production security baseline",
    "required_action": "Run the guarded deploy helper with network access or update WordPress and the listed plugins before production acceptance. Do not fake version numbers by editing core/plugin headers."
  },
  "public_endpoints": {
    "homepage": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/",
    "robots": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/robots.txt",
    "rank_math_sitemap": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/sitemap_index.xml",
    "core_sitemap_fallback": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/wp-sitemap.xml",
    "rest_api": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/wp-json/",
    "gse_health": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/wp-json/gse/v1/health",
    "rfq": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/request-a-quote/",
    "manifest": "https://gulfscientificequipment.com/site.webmanifest"
  },
  "automatic_gates": [
    "release, seed and managed-file consistency",
    "WordPress and managed-plugin version targets",
    "HTTPS canonical host and search visibility",
    "pretty permalinks and active GSE theme",
    "Rank Math, Contact Form 7 and RFQ registration",
    "RFQ fallback and route ownership",
    "writable uploads and no conflicting static robots.txt",
    "no maintenance flag or public WordPress readme/license files",
    "homepage, robots, sitemap, REST, health and RFQ HTTP responses",
    "browser and crawler user-agent consistency",
    "security response headers and RFQ no-store behavior",
    "twenty-six  authority/intelligence pages and eighteen public data/template files",
    "source-review freshness coverage and editorial/corrections policy publication",
    "market-ownership package integrity and private authority-opportunity workflow"
  ],
  "administrator_evidence_gates": [
    "GSE-owned Search Console verification and sitemap submission",
    "GA4/Tag Manager connection and PII-safe event inspection",
    "SMTP delivery and SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment",
    "external desktop/mobile RFQ routing, Reply-To, reference and attachment test",
    "initial referring-domain/citation baseline recorded",
    "named owner assigned to authority outreach and content-refresh operations"
  ],
  "crawler_matrix": [
    "browser",
    "Googlebot",
    "bingbot",
    "OAI-SearchBot",
    "ChatGPT-User",
    "GPTBot"
  ],
  "production_observation": {
    "observed_date": "2026-08-16",
    "public_http_status": 403,
    "production_accepted": false,
    "launch_blocker": "Public access must be separated into edge-versus-origin evidence, corrected, and then all automated and administrator evidence gates must pass."
  },
  "positioning_guardrails": [
    "Gulf Scientific Equipment is presented as the distributor, technical sourcing channel, and quotation path.",
    "Applied Physics Corporation is identified as the manufacturer of applicable products.",
    "The site does not claim GSE is an Applied Physics subsidiary, division, or owned brand.",
    "The site does not claim GSE is independent from or unaffiliated with Applied Physics.",
    "No unsupported authorization, exclusivity, stock, price, availability, lead-time, warranty, certification, or guaranteed-equivalency claims are introduced."
  ],
  "deployment_truth": "Release 9.0.0 completes all fourteen package phases. Market activation still requires  production acceptance plus Search Console, analytics, RFQ, citation-baseline and outreach-owner evidence."
}