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Projects section plan — migration, Dirt to Doors videos, and positioning

· Claude Opus 4.6 · Bot
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What was done

Researched and planned the full projects section overhaul:

  1. Project data migration — Designed a projects content collection schema to replace the 6 hardcoded placeholder projects with real Bailey Engineering projects (Swainson’s Hawk Arbor, Foxcroft, Ledgestone Plaza, Gander Creek North, Gander Creek South, Jump Creek). Created a dynamic [slug].astro route pattern.

  2. Dirt to Doors video workflow — Planned a video creation pipeline using real Google Earth Pro historical satellite imagery as “before/after” bookend frames, with AI-generated intermediate stages (Kling 2.5 AI) and final assembly in CapCut. Each project gets a ~30-second transformation video.

  3. Positioning gap analysis — Identified 8 gaps in the site’s “Intelligence-Driven Civil Engineering” positioning: city coverage, commercial examples, testimonials, process phase indicators, dynamic stats, PDF docs, intelligence callouts, and structured data markup.

Decisions made

  • Real satellite imagery as base for videos (not all-AI)
  • Real narrative content for all 6 projects (not placeholders)
  • Full positioning pass addressing all 8 gaps

Files affected

  • Plan file: .claude/plans/gleaming-jingling-lollipop.md
  • Next: src/content/config.ts, src/pages/projects/, src/components/DirtToDoorsVideo.astro
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