Microcopy Inventory

Rewrite log (was / became)

The running record of every product line changed in Steps 5 to 7, screen by screen. Step 5 does the sample (the Home set); Steps 6 and 7 add the rest. Lines not listed for a rewritten screen were checked against voice.md and already conform.

Home set (Step 5 sample, done)

Updated after publishing, 2026-08-20: the inventory further down now carries three screens that did not exist when this page was written - home-one, home-few and upgrade-renewal-failed, the count ladder and the failed renewal. The rewrite log is history and is not re-opened; the lines for the three new pages were authored against voice.md rather than rewritten from anything. And on 2026-08-21 it lost one: home-savefocus was retired with the Save tab, so its four candidate lines moved onto home as the cancel nudge and its savings line was folded into them. The rewrite log above still names the retired page, and deliberately: a log records what was decided on the day it was decided, and renaming its subject afterwards would make the record say something that did not happen.

All five Home pages (home, home-empty, home-error, home-loading, home-savefocus) were checked line by line against voice.md. Home was the hand-built reference for the whole wireframe set, so it already embodies the voice: only two lines needed normalizing. Structure and markup were not touched, only text.

Verified already-conformant on the Home set (no change needed), the anchors the rollout must preserve:

• Trust line "Read-only. Tendd cannot move your money." (Dictionary D7), on every populated Home page.
• "You're paying for 14 subscriptions" and "a month, for what you have signed up for" (Principle 3 framing).
• Loader "Getting your subscriptions. This usually takes a moment." (Dictionary D10 pattern).
• Error "We could not refresh just now. Showing your last update from today, 9:14 AM." plus "Try again" (Dictionary D4; error keeps the last known list).
• "Connect your bank" and "Add a subscription" on home-empty (Dictionary D2, D1).
• Alert banner "Netflix went up by $2.50, now $17.99 a month." (Principle 2, active voice, names the actor).

Step 6: rollout to the remaining 15 screens (done)

Every non-Home screen was rewritten by one subagent per screen, all writing to voice.md, then reconciled here. 37 lines changed across 11 screens; 4 screens (Alerts, Cancel Guide, Upgrade, Settings) were already fully in voice. Structure, markup, reviewer annotations, aria-labels, user content, and data fixtures were not touched (only visible product copy).

Fully conformant, no change (verified line by line): Alerts (and states), Cancel Guide (and states), Upgrade, Settings. Their in-voice anchors: the alert lines name the actor in active voice ("A payment to Amazon Prime did not go through"), Cancel Guide keeps the reversible-action framing ("you can always resubscribe later") and the non-judgmental "it is not your fault", Upgrade keeps the single dismissible Pro gate with "Maybe later", Settings keeps its plain notification copy.

Cross-screen consistency (checked after the rollout). The canonical labels now read identically everywhere they appear: "Back to your subscriptions" (7 pages), "See your subscriptions" (4), "Connect your bank" (5), "Add them yourself" (6), "through Plaid" (6), and the read-only line "cannot ... your money" on every trust surface. The manual-add family carries three distinct labels on purpose, one per action: "Add them yourself" (the method, paired against Connect your bank), "Add a subscription" (the affordance to add one, on Home, empty states, and Connections), and "Add it by hand" (the in-page toggle on Add Subscription that reveals the custom-entry fields when a preset is not found). These are three different actions, so they keep three labels; none uses the banned word "manually".

Finalization fixes (accessibility and reviewer notes). Three references outside the visible copy still named retired labels; they were synced so nothing points at a string that no longer exists:

• share-snapshot-loading: aria-label "Creating your card" to "Making your card" (matches the visible heading).
• alerts-error: the reviewer zaction note "Back to Home" to "Back to your subscriptions".
• add-subscription: the reviewer zaction note "See my list" to "See your subscriptions".

Step 7: verify and fix (done)

Four adversarial reviewers re-checked all 41 pages against voice.md. They found four real voice misses (fixed below), two consistency judgments (resolved with no change), and coverage gaps (now recorded). Screens and this log were fixed together.

Consistency judgments (resolved, no change):

• subscription-detail base/empty/loading appbar "back to Home" chevron: kept. It is the back-nav chevron to the parent (the Home tab keeps its nav label per D3), uniform across all four detail states; the error state's "Back to your subscriptions" is the separate content-recovery button. Two patterns by design, not a drift. Closed on 2026-08-11: this rested on the chevron saying "Home", and a later round changed all six detail chevrons to "Your subscriptions", so the error page carried one destination under two wordings a screen apart. The button is now "Your subscriptions" too.
• subscription-detail-unrecognized "We could not identify this": kept. Active voice with the actor, and the next sentence names the object ("match it to a service").

Coverage additions (lines on screen but missing from the Step 1 inventory, now recorded so nothing ships outside this file):

• cancel-guide-no-guide detail-head: "Cancel The New York Times" (heading) and "$17.00 / month, you can always resubscribe later" (body).
• cancel-guide-blocked detail-head: "Cancel Netflix" (heading) and "$17.99 / month, still active for now" (body). The "still active for now" amount variant is authored copy specific to the error state.
• connections "Added by you" source card: the "Added" field value "Kept up to date by you".

Reviewer-note syncs (outside visible copy, aligned to current labels):

• add-subscription-empty zaction: "add it manually" to "add it by hand".
• connect-bank zaction: "choose your bank" to "Connect your bank".

Wireframes rebuild, Home as the etalon (2026-08-05)

The wireframe stage was re-run against the upgraded IA, and Home was rebuilt as the etalon. No line was rewritten. What changed is which lines the screen carries and where they sit, and this inventory follows, because a line inventory that lists lines no screen shows is wrong in the same way a missing line is.

Not a copy change, but recorded here because the screen reads differently: the next charge is rendered days first and the date second (wireframe conventions section 5, and node 2.6 block 5), against a fixed fixture date of 1 August. "in 2 days, Aug 3", and "tomorrow" at one day.

The four states of Home (2026-08-05, same rebuild)

Again no line was rewritten. Two stale inventory rows were corrected against the Step 5 log, which had already resolved both and whose decisions the screens have been rendering since July: home-savefocus summary-strip is "you might not be using", and the door label is "Add a subscription".

Two findings for Voice, left open rather than fixed here, because the words are not the wireframe stage's to change. Both closed on 2026-08-11, in Round 4.

1. home-empty carried two headings that say the same thing a hundred pixels apart: "Nothing to add up yet" in the summary strip and "Nothing here yet" over the two doors. Became: the second heading is now "Two ways to start". The first says what is true, the second says what to do, and neither says the other's job twice.
2. The two home-savefocus candidate rows put the date first ("Trial ends: Aug 18", "Next: Aug 11") while every other row in the product leads with the days. Became: "trial ends in 17 days" and "next in 10 days", each still paired with how long it has been unopened. The date moved into the accessible name, where it is useful and costs no width.

The rest of the main flow (2026-08-05, same rebuild)

Nodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 with its four returns, 1.5 with its empty state, and 2.7 with its five states. Unlike the Home rebuild this one does add lines: three blocks of the landing and most of the detail screen had no copy at all, because the July screens did not have the blocks. Every new line is in the inventory below. What follows is what changed about lines that already existed.

Two fixtures corrected, which is data and not copy. The base detail page now renders Spotify Premium, because the screen exists for the decoder line and its default should be the case that shows one; Netflix moved to the price-change state, which is where the canonical alert case belongs. And the failed payment is Amazon Prime, not Peloton: alerts.html and this inventory both said Amazon Prime, and only wireframes/docs/conventions.md said Peloton. It has been corrected there. The failure was dated Jul 2 on the July screen, which its own billing cycle contradicts; the rebuilt Alerts dates it Jul 20, and that is now the only date in the set.

One finding for the map, not for Voice. Node 2.7 block 8 asks for "edit the details" and the map has no node to send it to: node 1.4 owns the only form in the product, and the grey screen borrows it. Recorded in ia/docs/nodes/2-7-subscription-detail.md.

The rest of the set (2026-08-05, same rebuild)

The nineteen MVP pages that were still on the July frame: node 1.4 with its three states, node 3.8 with its three, node 4.9 with its two, node 4.10, node 6.14 with its three, node 6.15 with its dialog, and node 6.16. Two of those state pages had never existed. The three LATER screens (4.11, 5.12, 5.13) are untouched and keep their rows above: round 2 brings them to the same contract.

Every carried fix from the IA work is closed. The share block is off cancel-win, the Name field is off settings and the currency row is on it, cancel-guide has the three blocks the block bank found missing, and connections states the last check and the disconnect consequence on every source with one number for Chase instead of two.

Nothing was rewritten for style. Every change above is a block the node asks for and the screen did not have, a fixture that disagreed with itself, or a label the dictionary had already settled and the inventory had not caught up with.

The critique (2026-08-05, Step 9)

One line left the product, and it is the only copy change the critique produced.

Everything else the critique found was structure or a document that had fallen behind the screens, and none of it touched a line. The log is wireframes/docs/critique.md.

Round 2: the three LATER screens (2026-08-05)

The last seven pages left the July frame and three states were drawn for the first time, so the inventories for node 4.11, node 5.12 and node 5.13 are rewritten below. Their compositions come from the second bank round (ia/docs/blocks.md, types H, I and J), which ran before the screens were drawn.

Round 3: the auth model (2026-08-10)

Five pages and one field, from the decision that closed the last structural ? in the map. This is the round that re-opened a stage marked Done, and the copy carries the reason rather than hiding it: on the bank path the email is asked with the trust argument attached, not as a signup.

Canonical subscription dataset

The 14-subscription sample repeats across Home, its states, and the Subscription Detail master pane. This is product data, not authored copy, and is not rewritten. It is listed once here and referenced elsewhere as "the canonical list". Total: $192.90 / month.

The line inventory

Every interface line on all 55 wireframe pages, verbatim, grouped by cluster. Zone is the region of the screen the line sits in; Type is heading, button, link, field-label, hint, body, state-message, status, nav, or footer. A line a user types is tagged (USER) and is never rewritten. Not listed, on purpose: the reviewer wireframe tree and deferred asset placeholders ([logo], [chart], [preview image]).

Cluster A: Welcome landing and Path Choice

Cluster B: Connect Bank, Add Subscription, Guided Reveal, Sign In

Deliberately absent, and it is a line that must never be written here: "that email is not registered", or any wording that tells the reader whether an address has an account. Saying it to one person says it to anybody who asks. The screen behaves the same either way, and the mail that arrives is the one that fits.

Cluster C: Home and Subscription Detail

Cluster D: Alerts, Cancel Guide, Cancel Win, Share Snapshot

Cluster E: History and Trends, Upgrade, Connections, Data and Privacy, Settings

On the cancel line, and the three things it does not say. No discount, no "are you sure you want to lose", no "tell us why". A product whose whole promise is that cancelling should be easy cannot make its own subscription the hard one, and every retention pattern the category uses here is the pattern node 4.9 exists to help people survive. The consequence is stated above the action rather than sprung after it, and what it says first is what the person is actually afraid of: the list stays.

Two rows are missing from this state on purpose. There is no "What Tendd tells you about" block, because there is no address to send anything to, and a preference screen for messages that cannot arrive is theatre. That fact is not hidden: it is the second of the three lines above, written as what an account changes rather than as a lack. And there is no "Sign out", because there is nothing to sign out of.

Discrepancies flagged

Nothing below is rewritten. These are the places where the product says the same thing in different words, or slips into a tone Tendd said it would avoid. Step 3 (Dictionary and Forbidden) and Step 4 (Microcopy rules) decide each one. See Voice: Dictionary and Voice: Forbidden.