AI Importer Improvements and Founding Member Checkout

Two operator-visible things changed in this release. The AI guidebook importer got meaningfully more accurate, and the Founding Member checkout went live with Stripe payment links wired into the marketing site. If an operator tried the importer at launch and got a result that was off, this is the release that fixes it. If an operator was holding out for Founding Member, the door is open.

AI Importer Accuracy Improvements

The importer is the path most new operators take into Digital Guidebooks. It is the difference between an empty editor and a near-complete guidebook on day one. The launch version worked, but the failure modes were specific and consistent. This release addresses them:

No more fabricated content

The original prompt included the operator's organization name as context, which the language model occasionally used to invent details that did not appear on the source page. The prompt has been rewritten to exclude account-side context entirely. The importer reads the source URL and only the source URL.

Real prices, extracted directly

Pricing was the most common thing the importer got wrong. The previous version asked the language model to extract pricing from the page text, which produced low-confidence guesses on pages with complex pricing structures (early-bird rates, group discounts, seasonal pricing). The new version runs a regex pass on the raw HTML before the language model sees it. If a clean dollar amount appears in the source, the importer extracts it directly without invoking the model. The hardcoded $99 default has been removed entirely. If the importer cannot find a price, the field stays empty for the operator to fill in.

Bigger sites supported

The previous fetch limit of 512KB was crashing on Wix and Squarespace pages, which routinely produce HTML payloads several megabytes in size. The fetch cap has been raised to 2MB. The importer also uses smart truncation now: the head section gets up to 50KB and the body up to 500KB, rather than a blind byte cap. The structural information the language model needs to read the page survives the truncation.

JS-rendered page guard

Some sites render their tour content entirely with JavaScript after the initial HTML loads. The importer's fetcher does not execute JavaScript, so on these sites it would see a near-empty page. The previous version still ran the language model on whatever text was visible, which produced hallucinated content built from navigation links and meta tags. The new version checks the visible text length first. If the page has fewer than 300 characters of text, the importer skips the model entirely and surfaces a clear error to the operator instead of inventing a guidebook.

Smarter logo and hero image detection

The importer pulls a hero image and a logo from the source page. The previous version sometimes selected navigation icons, footer logos, or background patterns instead of the actual hero photo. The detection logic now handles CSS custom properties (such as Avada's --awb-background-image), filters out og:image entries that are clearly logos, and prefers images linked from the homepage when multiple candidates exist.

Founding Member Checkout Is Live

The Founding Member tier sits alongside Local Favorite and Market Leader. The pricing is $149 per month or $1,500 per year, locked forever. The plan includes everything in Local Favorite plus early access to roadmap features that ship to Founding Members first.

Twenty spots, publicly stated. The Founding Members page lists the current count and the roadmap of features Founding Members will see first.

The checkout flow:

• Operator opens the Founding Members page and clicks the Stripe checkout link for monthly or annual
• Stripe processes the payment
• The product webhook auto-provisions an account if one does not exist, sends a magic-link sign-in email, and grants the Founding Member tier
• The operator clicks the link and lands in a ready-to-use admin

The Founding Members page itself was redesigned in this release with a hero, a clear fine-print section, the roadmap of upcoming features, and horizontally stacked pricing tiers with expandable feature lists.

Loss-Aversion Pricing Page

The previous pricing page used a calculator that asked operators to enter tour volume and guest count, then projected a Digital Guidebooks plan recommendation. The math was correct, but the framing was abstract. Operators did not connect "5,000 guests per year" to anything they could feel.

The new pricing page opens with a revenue check. It asks an operator to estimate how much they currently capture in tips, reviews, and emails — and how much they would capture with a system designed around those moments. The cost of a Digital Guidebooks plan appears as a fraction of the value the plan creates. The tier cards sit below with expandable feature lists.

The framing change is intentional. Operators do not search for "tour operator software." They search for "how to get more tips on my tour" or "how to capture guest emails." The pricing page now meets them on the question they came in with.

Smaller Wins in This Release

Other improvements that shipped alongside the importer and Founding Member work:

• F&B Stop rename. "Food Stop" became "F&B Stop" everywhere in the UI to cover beverage tours, distillery tours, and other non-food consumable categories.
• Automatic F&B categorization. The F&B designation now auto-derives from a stop's content fields. The previous manual category selector has been removed.
• AI Imported badge on stop cards in the Stops Library so operators can spot which stops came from the importer at a glance.
• Stop count and "used in" count now exclude soft-deleted placements, so the dashboard numbers match what operators actually see.
• Stripe webhook auto-sends a magic-link email to pre-created accounts after checkout completes. New email template: account-ready.
• Custom pages capability added to the Market Leader tier feature list.
• Footer link to /founding-members added across all main pages.
• Phantom click fix. Removed a stray resource_click event that was firing on local-place card expand. Legitimate "Visit Website" tracking is preserved. Operator analytics will run cleaner going forward.

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