spanish-academy — week of 2026-08-31

Three fixes, all landed Sunday night.

The one that matters most is on the lead side. Of the several paths that create a lead in the CRM, the placement flow was the only one setting a follow-up status. Everything else, the web forms and the assistant’s handoff, was dropping leads in with no status at all. That meant nobody could tell from the CRM what had been contacted and what hadn’t. Every path now stamps the same default status, and the value lives in one place because the CRM rejects the whole record on a typo, and I’d rather not lose a lead over one.

The second is a decision record. A couple of weeks ago the assistant got switched into a mode where everything goes to a human. The reason never got captured, and the log said so in plain words. I asked. The answer was a general lack of confidence in its answers, built up over time, not a single bad incident. That’s worth writing down because it sets the bar for turning it back on. Fixing one bug won’t be enough.

The third was self-inflicted. A newer Hugo on my machine refused to run the CSS step under its security policy, so the pre-merge build check quietly couldn’t run locally. It’s allowed now, and the check says which Hugo version it means.