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Production handoff

Launch Readiness Checklist

A focused checklist for moving the Roth Conversion Calculator from local development to a public Google SEO tool site. Items stay pending until production domain, search, analytics, compliance, test, and operations evidence is available.

Total items

14

Complete

13

Pending

1

Domain and hosting

2 checks
  • Production domain

    complete

    Production evidence verifies the canonical www domain, HTTPS, sitemap host, and DNS/canonical checks.

  • Vercel production deployment

    complete

    GitHub main triggers the production deployment and SEO Smoke waits for the production alias before evidence checks.

Analytics and search console

2 checks
  • Google Search Console

    complete

    Production evidence verifies the Search Console ownership signal; query-driven content work remains blocked until real query rows appear.

  • GA4 measurement ID

    complete

    Production homepage includes the GA4 measurement ID with deferred privacy-safe analytics loading and bucketed calculator events.

SEO discovery

2 checks
  • Sitemap submission

    complete

    Production evidence verifies sitemap availability and crawl discovery; manual GSC submission status remains an external-account review item.

  • Robots and feeds

    complete

    Production evidence verifies /robots.txt, /feed.xml, /llms.txt, internal links, structured data, and HTML quality.

Compliance review

3 checks
  • Disclaimer review

    complete

    Automated YMYL, AI guardrail, professional handoff, and report tests verify the educational boundary across calculator surfaces.

  • AI model cross-check

    complete

    AI-assisted cross-checks and deterministic AI verifier evidence review calculator explanations, YMYL language, and fallback boundaries; this supports but does not replace qualified tax professional review.

  • CPA review

    pending

    Pending until a qualified US CPA, EA, or tax attorney review is recorded with the redacted CPA review evidence template and passes ops:cpa-review-evidence-validate.

Testing and quality

3 checks
  • Unit and integration tests

    complete

    Full Vitest validation passes and is recorded in progress evidence before production sync.

  • E2E browser tests

    complete

    Operational readiness browser coverage has passed in prior release rounds and remains guarded by Playwright tests.

  • Lighthouse audit

    complete

    Production SEO Smoke retains mobile performance evidence with a current performance score in the evidence artifact.

Operations

2 checks
  • Health endpoint

    complete

    Production /api/health returns public status, tax year, content counts, feature counts, and no secret-like fields.

  • Rollback path

    complete

    Release notes and feature registry entries retain rollback guidance for scoped modules.

Delivery Notes

Production domain and Google Search Console verification must be completed after the final domain is connected. Compliance review should be performed before public traffic is sent to AI-assisted explanations or calculator result pages.