Don't bury the lead. Each public event now opens with a 1–2 sentence claim that cascades through the proposal, landing page, and budget: 2027 Symposium — "We boot the cohort." 2028 Demo Day — "We open the gallery." - tex + markdown: timeline rows and budget lines carry the quoted leads; budget rebalanced to the full $50k cap with a $3k paid-event-helpers line (contingency already covers slip). - bio rewritten as complete sentences: "artist, educator, and technologist," instruments-for-artists framing, collections + residencies in prose. - tech+culture statement drops the "does nothing else" framing; adds real user metrics (17k KidLisp, 4.4k paintings, 2.9k moods, 19k chats, 2.8k handles) and notes AC Native carries chat + multiplayer + notepat. - landing page: Calendar + Budget + Application-at-a-Glance Timeline + Pitch section + Submission-Form Version all carry the two-event through-line in pink. - narration pipeline carryover: demo-narration.md retimed; vo-pipeline.mjs understands the demo-script key/say/caption/wait/env format. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>