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 A staff software engineer coding professionally since age 15 with over 20 years of experience. Merchant analytics at PayPal — she understands the infrastructure that enables and restricts financial transactions in this industry. FDA-regulated medical robotics at Intuitive Surgical — software controlling surgical robots where the margin for error is zero. A dual citizen of the US and Europe, positioned to operate from Iceland.
 
-Five months ago, she started working as an escort and experienced extraction economics firsthand. As a trans woman targeted by the 2025-2026 surge of anti-trans legislation, this platform is survival infrastructure she is building for herself and for people like her. She built the entire platform solo using AI-assisted development — not a pitch deck with wireframes, but a functioning platform with 25+ production features. The platform passed its technical readiness audit on February 5, 2026 — all critical blockers resolved.
+Five months ago, she started working as an escort and experienced extraction economics firsthand. As a trans woman targeted by the 2025-2026 surge of anti-trans legislation, this platform is survival infrastructure she is building for herself and for people like her. She built the entire platform solo using AI-assisted development — not a pitch deck with wireframes, but a functioning platform with 25+ production features.
 
 ### The Problem
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ One platform, multiple brands from a single codebase — TrustedMeet, SpoiledBab
 
 ### Traction
 
-**Built, tested, and deployment-ready** (not concept): 25+ production features, multiple brand deployments configured, multi-language support (40+ languages), self-hosted infrastructure (Iceland/Switzerland). Platform passed technical readiness audit (2026-02-05) — all P0/P1 blockers resolved. Payment integration built (Segpay + NOWPayments crypto); activation requires legal entity and merchant account.
+**Built, tested, and deployment-ready** (not concept): 25+ production features, multiple brand deployments configured, multi-language support (40+ languages), self-hosted infrastructure (Iceland/Switzerland). Payment integration built (Segpay + NOWPayments crypto); activation requires legal entity and merchant account.
 
 ### Why Now
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Not as research. Not as an undercover investigation. As her job. She is a trans
 
 She did not write a pitch deck. She built the platform.
 
-Using AI-assisted development, a single person constructed an enterprise-scale system: 25+ production features, 6 configured brands, dual payment infrastructure, multi-language support, self-hosted on Icelandic and Swiss infrastructure with zero dependency on US providers. Almost a million lines of code and tests. The platform passed its technical readiness audit on February 5, 2026 — all critical blockers resolved.
+Using AI-assisted development, a single person constructed an enterprise-scale system: 25+ production features, 6 configured brands, dual payment infrastructure, multi-language support, self-hosted on Icelandic and Swiss infrastructure with zero dependency on US providers. Almost a million lines of code and tests. 
 
 This is not a founder who read about a problem. This is a founder who lives inside it, who possesses the exact technical skills to solve it, and who has already solved it. The platform exists. What remains is activation.