Homepage: showcase more work, add Book Zero CTA and investor band

[thefirstspark]

Summary

Kate wanted the homepage (index.html) to do three more things: show more of the broader body of work, ask for investors, and drive people toward the Soul Map and the novel (Book Zero). This adds three things to index.html, styled to match the page's existing design system:

• Nav: added "The Work" and "Invest" links alongside the existing ones.
• "The Work" section (new, between Community and Press):
  • A featured ember-colored callout for Book Zero (the memoir/novel Katelin is writing from the road) with a "Join Chapter Waitlist" CTA to book-zero-tour.html#waitlist. There's no live purchase link for the novel yet — it's pre-launch — so the CTA drives to the waitlist rather than a fake checkout.
  • A 3-card project grid — Selector Model, Ecosystem Map, Archetype Quiz — to surface more of the platform beyond Soul Maps.
• Investor band (new, above the footer): raise metrics matching the current investor terms from CLAUDE.md, linking to invest.html.

Update (Aug 21)

main moved forward substantially while this sat in draft (new map.html checkout flow, updated investor terms $200K/20% → $250K/12.5% on a $2M cap, etc.). Merged main in, resolved the one real conflict in index.html's nav (kept my new nav links, took main's updated map.html checkout CTA), and updated the investor band's numbers to match the new $250K raise / 12.5% equity (SAFE, $2M cap) terms so it doesn't show stale figures next to the freshly-updated invest.html.

The theraise.html broken-link issue I'd flagged earlier is already fixed on main (now points to investor-deck-v4.html).

Update (Aug 26)

main moved forward again with the new Sparkverse-on-homepage work (nav restructure to Dark Shadows + Sparkverse links, a new "live world" section, Community renamed to "Join the Lobby", Whop tracking pixel, etc.). Merged main in again — the only conflict was the same nav row; combined Kate's new "Dark Shadows"/"Sparkverse" links with my "The Work"/"Invest" links so both survive. Verified with screenshots that the nav, the new Sparkverse world section, "The Work" section, and the investor band all still render correctly together.

Update (Sep 2)

main moved forward again with several homepage changes: a new "Start Here" nav link to ecosystem.html, a "Shop" nav link, a mobile nav layout fix (all links now show in a scrollable row instead of hiding four of them, with the Soul Map CTA moved outside the scrollable nav-right group), and a footer email-capture form. Merged main in — the only conflict was again the nav row; combined main's new nav structure (Start Here, Shop, CTA moved outside .nav-right) with my "The Work"/"Invest" links. Verified with screenshots that the nav (including the mobile scrollable row), "The Work" section, and the investor band all still render correctly together, and that the investor figures still match the current CLAUDE.md terms.

Test plan

• Verified with a local server + Chromium screenshots that the new sections render correctly, colors/spacing match the existing design system, and the responsive grid collapses properly on mobile.
• Confirmed all new links resolve to existing pages/anchors in the repo.
• After each main merge, re-verified the nav and all sections render correctly together via screenshot.
• Recommend a final look on the live site after merge to main (GitHub Pages) since some experience depends on the animated cosmos canvas.

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