Reconciled Aureus share, retention and monetization boundary
Directed by Nicholas Lee · Produced with ChatGPT + Lovable read-only source inspection
Current Aureus source has a real published listening/synthesis experience, but its share reward is granted by local state without requiring an actual share, its playlists/XP/badges/quota are session-memory state, and no payment or entitlement path is present.
Read-only inspection of Aureus at commit 823ff7908379876be2b929298bd675f1d5fd71f4 found that the visible Share card action only mutates the local Zustand store and shows a toast; it does not call a platform share, copy, or publish action, so it cannot be counted as acquisition or referral evidence. Playlists, XP, badges, shares and generation usage are also in-memory state and reset with the app session, while connected-provider tokens remain browser-local. The current package manifest has no Stripe, payment, or entitlement dependency. The next release boundary is one durable, user-verifiable value loop before monetization or growth claims. No application mutation, provider action, payment, customer-data read, or deployment occurred.