diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ The detail lives in dedicated documents:
 - [Process flow](docs/process-flow.md): the whole chain from audio file to
   delivered record as a chart and stage table, with every check and the
   three artist approval gates (printable diagram alongside)
+- [Artist platform](docs/artist-platform.md): upload a master and
+  artwork, get a transparent itemised offer from the price calculator
+  (for artists, labels and any other customer), and optionally launch a
+  fan-funded campaign that the plant presses and ships to each fan once
+  enough have pre-ordered, with refunds if not
 - [Plant operation page](docs/plant-operation.html): a single static page
   animating the whole plant as a simulated SCADA overview, from PVC intake
   and the material lab through extruder, press, trim, optical inspection,
@@ -155,6 +160,7 @@ docs/
 ├── finance/               Project cost overviews, revenue model,
 │                          construction RFQ
 ├── suppliers/             Supplier contacts, vendor landscape, supplier map
+├── artist-platform.md     Upload, price calculator, fan-funded pressing
 ├── biomass.md             Biomass fuel strategy and the 60 rai coppice idea
 ├── boi.md                 BOI promotion strategy and requirements
 ├── crane-workshop-tours.md Overhead crane, workshop, visitor corridor
diff --git a/docs/artist-platform.md b/docs/artist-platform.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,376 @@
+# Artist Platform: Upload, Price Calculator and Fan-Funded Pressing
+
+A web platform where anyone who wants records made, from a bedroom
+artist to a label, can:
+
+1. **Configure a record in a calculator** and get a transparent,
+   itemised offer: what every line costs, which costs are per title and
+   which per copy, how the price per copy falls with quantity, and when
+   it ships.
+2. **Upload the master and the artwork**, and have both checked before
+   anyone pays for anything.
+3. **Either order directly**, as any label would, **or launch a
+   fan-funded campaign**: a page the artist shares with fans, who
+   pre-order their copy. If enough fans commit before the deadline, the
+   plant presses and ships each fan's copy. If not, every fan is
+   refunded and nobody is left with a garage full of records.
+
+The calculator is for every customer. The campaign is the part that
+opens vinyl to artists who could never front the cost of a run. Both sit
+on top of what the plan already has: the stages and the three artist
+gates in [process flow](process-flow.md), the lead times in
+[production timeline](production-timeline.md), the order intake, client
+vault and customer portal in [digital factory](digital-factory.md), and
+the dropshipping already in the fulfillment step. Every figure on this
+page without a source is an estimate.
+
+## Why it fits this plant
+
+- **The bottom of the Thai market is unserved.** The one Thai plant we
+  have seen quotes a 150-unit minimum that is "rarely accepted because
+  the cost is way too high", so runs under 300 are effectively
+  unavailable ([revenue model](finance/revenue-model.md)). The reason is
+  a per-title cost (imported stampers, outsourced cutting) that does not
+  shrink with the run. In-house cutting and plating collapses it, which
+  makes short runs viable for CNX in a way they are not for an importer
+  of metalwork. Short runs need a channel; this is it.
+- **Fan funding removes the artist's risk.** What stops an indie artist
+  ordering 200 records is not the price per copy, it is paying for all
+  200 up front without knowing whether they sell. A campaign turns that
+  around: the fans pay first, the run is exactly as big as the demand.
+- **CNX owns the presses.** The known platforms of this kind are brokers
+  over a network of other people's plants. A plant-owned platform
+  controls its own price, schedule and quality, and keeps the margin on
+  manufacturing instead of a commission.
+- **Transparency is already the brand.** The plan is built on
+  traceability that customers can see. The same event log can tell a fan
+  "cut on 12 March, plated, test pressing approved by the artist,
+  pressing now, ships next week", automatically and truthfully.
+
+## Who else does this, and the lesson
+
+| | Model | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Qrates** (Japan, global) | Crowdfunding plus pressing through partner plants, with a profit calculator for the artist | Its site carries a notice (October 2026) that the service is suspended "due to unforeseen financial difficulties"; artists report funded projects caught in the wind-down |
+| **Diggers Factory** (France) | Upload tracks and artwork, set a sales goal; if missed, the project is cancelled and everyone refunded, or the artist funds the rest; about 8 weeks of manufacturing after success (2023 description); also sells direct pressing paid up front | An on-demand network rather than a single plant |
+| **elasticStage** (UK) | Each record made when it is ordered, no minimum, no campaign | Its own on-demand production technology; a different answer to the same problem |
+
+**The Qrates lesson is the design rule for the money**: fan payments are
+held apart from the company's own money and are never working capital,
+so that if anything goes wrong, fans can be refunded and artists keep
+their projects. See "Payments" below.
+
+## The calculator
+
+### What the customer chooses
+
+| Choice | Options |
+|---|---|
+| Format | 12" LP, 10", 7"; single or double disc; 33⅓ or 45 rpm |
+| Weight | 140 g, 180 g |
+| Colour | Black, solid colour, marbled or splatter (the semi-automatic line's speciality) |
+| Quantity | Free entry, with the price-per-copy curve shown live |
+| Labels | Printed, pressed into the record (the only kind this plant makes) |
+| Inner sleeve | Paper, poly-lined |
+| Jacket | None (customer supplies), plain, printed single, printed gatefold; printed by the local packaging partner |
+| Extras | Insert, hype sticker, shrink wrap, numbered edition |
+| Audio services | Customer supplies a vinyl-ready master, or CNX vinyl mastering per side |
+| Metal | Lacquer cutting and stampers (in-house; bridge stampers from Stamper Discs until the galvanics line exists) |
+| Test pressings | Number of copies for the artist |
+| Delivery | Bulk to one address, dropship to each buyer, or collect at the plant |
+
+### What the customer gets back
+
+- **Every line itemised**, grouped into **per title** (mastering,
+  cutting, stampers, test pressings, setup) and **per copy** (pressing,
+  labels, sleeve, jacket, extras), with pass-through items such as the
+  printed jacket marked as such.
+- **The price per copy against quantity** as a curve, so it is obvious
+  why 100 copies cost more each than 500, and where the steps are.
+- **A lead time in weeks** from the quote table in
+  [production timeline](production-timeline.md): counted from
+  test-pressing approval, with the stages before it shown separately as
+  "typically X weeks, subject to your approvals", exactly as that page
+  says a quote should be made.
+- **An offer** with a validity date and the price-list version it was
+  computed from.
+
+### How it computes
+
+Price = sum of the per-title lines + quantity × sum of the per-copy lines,
+with quantity tiers where a supplier's price steps (jacket print runs).
+All rates come from **one versioned price list** in the factory
+application, and every offer records the version it used, so any old
+offer can be reproduced to the baht. That follows the append-only rule
+the factory application already applies to everything else.
+
+Transparency rules, so the word means something:
+
+- every line visible, no fees that appear later;
+- pass-through costs (the jacket) shown at what the partner charges plus
+  a stated handling margin;
+- quoted in THB for Thai customers and in USD for export customers, the
+  currency choice the [revenue model](finance/revenue-model.md) already
+  recommends deciding early.
+
+### What it looks like with numbers
+
+An illustration of the **shape**, using the midpoints of the working
+assumptions in the revenue model: **38,000 THB per title** (mastering,
+cutting, stampers, test pressings; range 19,000 to 57,000), **132 THB per
+copy** for pressing, labels, inner sleeve and assembly (range 115 to 150),
+plus **~100 THB per copy for a printed jacket and shrink** at short run
+(estimate, until the packaging partner quotes). Black 12", 140 g:
+
+| Copies | Per-title share per copy | Per copy | Per copy, all in | Order total |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 100 | 380 | 232 | **~612 THB** | ~61,200 THB |
+| 200 | 190 | 232 | **~422 THB** | ~84,400 THB |
+| 300 | 127 | 232 | **~359 THB** | ~107,600 THB |
+| 500 | 76 | 232 | **~308 THB** | ~154,000 THB |
+| 1,000 | 38 | 232 | **~270 THB** | ~270,000 THB |
+
+**Do not read the level off this table.** At these Western-benchmark
+rates the 300-copy price lands near 360 THB, while the Thai market pays
+650 to 950 THB for 300 today. That is the very gap the revenue model
+flags as its biggest open question. The real price list is set after
+market validation ([roadmap](roadmap.md) item 1); the calculator only
+makes whatever prices are chosen legible.
+
+## Fan-funded campaigns
+
+### Before the campaign goes live
+
+Nothing goes in front of fans that the plant cannot make:
+
+1. **Upload**: master files (WAV/FLAC/AIFF) with checksums at both ends,
+   resumable for album-size uploads, straight into the encrypted client
+   vault (module 2 of the factory application).
+2. **Automatic audio checks**, reported to the artist within minutes:
+   format, sample rate and bit depth, clipping and true peak, **side
+   length against the chosen format**, and low-frequency phase problems
+   that make a groove hard to cut.
+3. **Automatic artwork preflight**: label and jacket files against the
+   templates (size, centre hole and safe area for the pressed-in label,
+   bleed, resolution, colour space), with a rendered mock-up of the
+   jacket and the vinyl colour.
+4. **Engineer check**: a cutting engineer confirms side length and level
+   are cuttable. On a Sillitoe lathe this is a number from the software's
+   virtual groove (disk capacity in percent) without a test cut; see
+   [vendor landscape](suppliers/vendor-landscape.md).
+5. **Rights**: the artist confirms they own or have licensed the
+   recordings and the compositions (covers need a mechanical licence),
+   and an automatic audio fingerprint check (open tools such as
+   Chromaprint/AcoustID) catches obvious bootlegs before a person looks.
+6. **Gate 1, master plan approved**, recorded as the event the
+   [process flow](process-flow.md) already defines, plus the approved
+   artwork proof that packaging QC later checks print against.
+
+### The campaign page
+
+- Artwork mock-up, story, track list, **short audio previews** (a few
+  seconds to a minute per track at reduced quality, rendered by the plant
+  from the master; the full master never leaves the vault, which matters
+  because pre-release audio is a leak target per
+  [facility security](facility-security.md))
+- Price per copy, shipping by destination, goal, progress, deadline,
+  **estimated ship month** (campaign close plus the quoted lead time),
+  and what happens if the goal is missed
+- Sharing built for where the fans are: a link, a QR code for gigs and
+  merch tables, and **LINE** alongside the international networks; Thai
+  and English
+- Duration chosen by the artist, **14 to 45 days** (estimate)
+
+### The goal
+
+The goal is the larger of two numbers:
+
+- **the plant's minimum campaign run**, set by setup and stamper
+  economics on the semi-automatic line (**100 copies** as a planning
+  figure, to be decided), and
+- **the artist's break-even**: the copies at which the fan price covers
+  the per-title costs, the per-copy costs and the payment fees.
+
+With the illustration above and a fan price of 1,200 THB (an example,
+not a recommendation) and payment fees of about 3.5%: break-even is
+38,000 / (1,200 − 42 − 232) ≈ **41 copies**, so the goal is the 100-copy
+minimum. At 100 copies the artist keeps about **546 THB a copy**, at 300
+about **799 THB**, because the per-title cost spreads. The calculator
+shows the artist this before launch, for any price they type in. Shipping
+is charged to the fan separately at checkout, at cost.
+
+Over-subscription is good news: the run is pressed at the final number
+plus the artist's own copies and the spares the reject allowance already
+covers. An artist can cap a campaign for a limited, numbered edition.
+
+### Payments
+
+The decision that matters most, and the one Qrates got wrong.
+
+| | A. Charge at pledge, refund on failure | B. Save card, charge at success |
+|---|---|---|
+| How | Fan pays when pledging; money held in a ring-fenced account; automatic refund if the goal is missed | Card stored by the payment provider; charged only when the campaign succeeds |
+| Thai fit | Works with **PromptPay QR**, cards and wallets, which is how Thai fans pay | Cards only; excludes PromptPay |
+| Risk | CNX holds fan money for the campaign's length: must be ring-fenced and legally clean | Some charges fail at the end, so a campaign that "succeeded" can come up short |
+| Note | Refund paths differ by payment method; confirm each with the provider | A card authorisation cannot simply be held: Opn (Omise) allows an authorise-and-capture pause of up to 7 days, far short of a campaign |
+
+**Recommended: A**, with three rules. Fan money sits in a **separate
+account** and is never used for operations until the campaign succeeds.
+**CNX is the seller of record** to the fan (CNX makes and sells the
+record, the artist licenses the music and receives the margin), which
+keeps VAT, consumer protection and refunds in one place. And before the
+first campaign, **a Thai legal opinion** on whether holding pre-order
+money for a third party's project needs anything beyond that, for
+example under the Bank of Thailand's payment-service rules. Card data
+never touches CNX servers: the provider's hosted payment page or fields
+keep it out of scope.
+
+### When the campaign succeeds
+
+The campaign becomes a production order and runs the normal chain:
+vinyl mastering if ordered and **gate 2** (master approved by the
+artist), cutting (only now, because a lacquer has to be plated within
+one to three days), stampers, test pressings and **gate 3** (artist
+approves the test pressing; a photo or short video of it to the fans is
+cheap marketing), the run, packaging, and **dropshipping one parcel per
+fan** with tracking, which is fulfillment step 9 as already planned.
+
+Fans follow it on the campaign page, fed from the factory application's
+event log: the progress is the plant's own record, not a status someone
+remembers to update. If a stage slips, the estimated ship month moves
+and every fan is told.
+
+An optional **"test pressing first"** campaign does mastering, cutting and
+test pressings before launch, so fans hear and see the real record. The
+artist pays the per-title services up front for it; it suits artists
+with an audience but no track record.
+
+### When it does not succeed
+
+Automatic refunds to every fan, or, if the artist chooses, the artist
+pays the shortfall and the run goes ahead at the minimum (the Diggers
+Factory option). The artist's uploaded master and artwork stay in the
+vault for a second attempt.
+
+### After the first run: repress on demand
+
+Once a title exists, its mother sits in the archive and a repress takes
+**1.5 to 2.5 weeks** of plant time
+([production timeline](production-timeline.md)). The campaign page can
+reopen as "pre-order the repress, pressed when 100 more are in", which
+turns one release into a recurring one. This is the part a plant with
+in-house plating can offer and a broker cannot.
+
+## For labels and regular customers
+
+The same calculator and upload path, with an account:
+
+- negotiated rates as a customer-specific price-list version;
+- direct orders with a deposit instead of a campaign;
+- the three gates approved in the customer portal
+  ([digital factory](digital-factory.md), modules 1 to 3 and 10);
+- bulk delivery, dropshipping, or both.
+
+## How it is built
+
+Same stack and same rules as the factory application in
+[digital factory](digital-factory.md): Rust (axum, SQLx, minijinja,
+HTMX) on PostgreSQL, in the `cnx-factory` repository, packaged as a
+flake, deployed by the clan. The platform extends modules 1 (orders and
+releases), 2 (audio intake and the client vault), 3 (the gates) and 10
+(customer portal) with a price list and calculator, campaigns, pledges,
+payments and per-fan shipments.
+
+**Where the public side runs.** The digital factory plan accepts that a
+WAN outage at the plant stops the customer portal. That is acceptable for
+a label checking an order, not for a campaign page in the hour an artist
+posts it, or for payment-provider webhooks. Proposal:
+
+- the **public process** (calculator, campaign pages, checkout, payment
+  webhooks, upload staging) runs on a fleet machine with a public
+  address, `web01` or a sibling declared in the clan the same way, with
+  its own small PostgreSQL for campaigns and pledges;
+- the **plant core stays the authority** for everything with a
+  production identity: when a campaign succeeds it becomes an order on
+  `vinyl-core`, and from then on the fan-facing progress is read through
+  the plant, as the portal is. Design decision 7 ("the portal is a view,
+  not a copy") still holds for production data; campaigns and pledges are
+  new data that start life in public;
+- **uploads** land encrypted in a staging area on the public machine, are
+  pulled over the mesh into the client vault, checksum-verified on both
+  sides, and deleted from staging; **previews** are rendered on the plant
+  and published outwards, so a full master never rests outside the
+  vault.
+
+No SaaS beyond the payment provider (Opn/Omise, 2C2P or a bank gateway,
+to be chosen), in line with the plan's standing rule that every plant
+service runs on the NixOS fleet.
+
+**Personal data.** Fans' names and addresses are personal data under
+PDPA, with CNX as controller as the seller of record. An artist gets
+fan contact details only where the fan ticked a consent box; that list
+is worth a lot to an artist, and consent is what makes it legal to hand
+over.
+
+## The calculator is also a research instrument
+
+Every configuration anyone builds, anonymously logged, is a data point on
+what people actually want to order: run size, colour, weight, packaging,
+how many walk away at which price. The revenue model's open **run-size**
+question ([roadmap](roadmap.md) item 1) is exactly that distribution. So
+the calculator should go public **long before the plant exists**, with
+indicative prices and a "tell me when it opens" list, and no payments.
+
+## Phasing
+
+| Roadmap phase | Platform step |
+|---|---|
+| 0 to 1, validate | Public calculator with indicative prices and an interest list; configuration logging feeds market validation |
+| 3, build | Direct orders, uploads, automatic checks and gates, as part of factory application v1 |
+| 4, launch | Campaigns go live **after** the first paying releases have shipped and lead times have been measured. No fan money is taken against a plant that has not yet delivered |
+| 5, expand | Repress pre-orders, numbered editions, international shipping at scale, cassette and CD formats from the business plan's scope |
+
+## Rough cost (estimate)
+
+| Item | THB | USD |
+|---|---|---|
+| Public side on top of the factory application: calculator, campaigns, payments, uploads and previews, preflight, fan accounts | 1.3M – 3.0M | 40k – 90k |
+| Hosting | on the existing fleet | negligible |
+| Payment fees | per transaction, inside the fan price | about 3 to 4% on cards, less on PromptPay (to be confirmed with the provider) |
+
+Not yet in the roll-up in
+[total investment](finance/total-investment.md); listed there as added
+scope.
+
+## Risks
+
+- **Most crowdfunding campaigns fail**, and each failed one still costs
+  CNX checking and setup time. A small non-refundable setup fee, credited
+  against the order if the campaign succeeds, is one answer; decide it
+  before launch.
+- **Lumpy demand.** Campaigns end on dates nobody controls. The scheduler
+  in the factory application should see live campaigns, weighted by how
+  close they are to their goal, and cap how many can close in the same
+  week.
+- **Fans are not labels.** They expect a perfect record and a date.
+  Clear wording on what vinyl sounds like, the artist's test-pressing
+  approval, and honest ship months carry most of this.
+- **Rights.** Someone will upload music that is not theirs. Warranty,
+  fingerprint check, a human look, and a takedown route.
+- **Money.** Covered by the payment rules above; the legal opinion comes
+  before the first campaign, not after.
+
+## Open decisions
+
+1. **Seller of record**: CNX (recommended) or the artist.
+2. **Payment model**: charge-and-refund into a ring-fenced account
+   (recommended) or save-card-and-charge; legal opinion either way.
+3. **Fee model**: margin inside the published price list only
+   (recommended, it is what "transparent" means) or a separate platform
+   commission.
+4. **Minimum campaign run**: 100 copies as the planning figure.
+5. **Public price list**: fully public rates, or public list prices with
+   account-specific rates for labels.
+6. **Hosting split**: public process on a fleet machine as proposed, or
+   everything on the plant core at launch volumes.
+7. **Name**: under CNX Vinyl, Poy Records, or its own brand.
diff --git a/docs/digital-factory.md b/docs/digital-factory.md
index 1a98a8d..849edf6 100644
--- a/docs/digital-factory.md
+++ b/docs/digital-factory.md
@@ -508,7 +508,11 @@ Modules, in build order:
    against the BOM, carrier and tracking per shipment or dropship end
    customer.
 10. **Customer portal**: per-order timeline of everything above, scoped so
-    one customer sees only its own orders; PDF export of the trace.
+    one customer sees only its own orders; PDF export of the trace. The
+    public front of order intake (price calculator, uploads with
+    automatic checks, fan-funded campaigns) is planned in
+    [artist platform](artist-platform.md), including why its public
+    side should not depend on the plant's WAN link.
 11. **Reports and signals**: yield per stamper, reject rate drift, audio
     score trend versus play count (the automatic retirement signal),
     energy per record, environment excursions overlaid on runs (the
diff --git a/docs/finance/revenue-model.md b/docs/finance/revenue-model.md
index 8098aaf..e8d9fbe 100644
--- a/docs/finance/revenue-model.md
+++ b/docs/finance/revenue-model.md
@@ -381,6 +381,10 @@ effectively unavailable in Thailand. That floor exists because per-title
 cost — an imported stamper set plus outsourced mastering — is irreducible
 for them. In-house cutting and plating collapses it, which makes short
 runs viable for CNX in a way they structurally are not for ResurRec.
+The channel planned for that segment is the
+[artist platform](../artist-platform.md): a transparent price calculator
+and fan-funded campaigns that press only when enough fans have
+pre-ordered.
 
 **What it does to the volume-versus-boutique question.** The model assumes
 1.0–1.5M records/yr across 300–600 titles, an average of 1,700–5,000 units
diff --git a/docs/finance/total-investment.md b/docs/finance/total-investment.md
index 047eea8..5220a2a 100644
--- a/docs/finance/total-investment.md
+++ b/docs/finance/total-investment.md
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ software lines, and the contingency on top).
 | Overhead crane, runway, frame premium, machine door | 97k – 227k | 3.2M – 7.5M | estimate, [crane, workshop and tours](../crane-workshop-tours.md) |
 | Maintenance workshop and machine bay fit-out | 30k – 76k | 1.0M – 2.5M | estimate, same |
 | Visitor corridor and accessible entrance | 67k – 148k | 2.2M – 4.9M | estimate, same |
-| **Added so far** | **~195k – 450k** | **~6.4M – 14.9M** | about 5 to 6% on the full-vision subtotal |
+| Artist platform, public side (calculator, campaigns, payments) | 40k – 90k | 1.3M – 3.0M | estimate, [artist platform](../artist-platform.md) |
+| **Added so far** | **~235k – 540k** | **~7.7M – 17.9M** | about 6 to 7% on the full-vision subtotal |
 
 ## Phased entry
 
diff --git a/docs/process-flow.md b/docs/process-flow.md
index 92fd2ef..93f90e7 100644
--- a/docs/process-flow.md
+++ b/docs/process-flow.md
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ A printable diagram of this flow lives alongside this document:
 [process-flow.png](process-flow.png), and
 [process-flow.pdf](process-flow.pdf).
 
+Orders reach stage 1 either directly or through the
+[artist platform](artist-platform.md), where the upload, the automatic
+audio and artwork checks and gate 1 happen before a fan-funded campaign
+is allowed to go live.
+
 ```mermaid
 flowchart TD
     A[1. Audio intake] --> G1{Artist gate:<br/>master plan approved}
diff --git a/docs/production-timeline.md b/docs/production-timeline.md
index 8a7f017..8d9bd01 100644
--- a/docs/production-timeline.md
+++ b/docs/production-timeline.md
@@ -216,6 +216,11 @@ stages quoted separately as "typically X weeks, subject to your
 approvals". Every plant that quotes from order date and gets caught by
 a slow artist ends up explaining itself.
 
+The price calculator on the [artist platform](artist-platform.md) quotes
+from this table in exactly this form, and a fan-funded campaign shows its
+fans an estimated ship month built the same way: campaign close, plus the
+typical pre-approval stages, plus the quote above.
+
 ## Honest caveats
 
 - **No order has ever run through this plant.** These are planning
diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md
index 650699f..ccc6d19 100644
--- a/docs/roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/roadmap.md
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ These three run in parallel and gate everything downstream:
    per-title services and run size; the tour showed no plating and no
    HVAC anywhere in the incumbent's operation, which is the strongest
    argument yet for pulling galvanics forward from Phase 5. Carry the
-   open run-size question into these conversations.
+   open run-size question into these conversations. The
+   [artist platform](artist-platform.md)'s price calculator, published
+   early with indicative prices and an interest list but no payments,
+   collects that run-size distribution from everyone who configures a
+   record.
 2. **BOI track**: engage a BOI-registered consultant, confirm the activity
    sub-code, and structure the application so the solar, automation, and
    R&D measures stack (see [boi.md](boi.md)). The application precedes
@@ -92,7 +96,9 @@ These three run in parallel and gate everything downstream:
 
 19. First test pressings, QC baselines, reject-rate shakedown
 20. First paying releases; validate turnaround and quality against the
-    regional pitch
+    regional pitch. Fan-funded campaigns on the
+    [artist platform](artist-platform.md) open only after these first
+    releases have shipped and lead times are measured
 21. PVC lab per-lot gate live; begin qualifying Thai/regional compound
     against the European references