# Self-Service Portal (SSP)

Primary product experience for individual local businesses (Model 1).

## Intent

Owners should feel the value before they pay: genre-aware onboarding, site scrape reflection, a live simulation of an AI recommending and booking them, pointer install, in-browser preflight against their MCP, optimization guidance, optional partner handoff, and ongoing reports.

The portal chat UI is a **test harness** for how *external* AI assistants will interpret the business — not a customer-facing chatbot we sell as the product.

## Detail source

Full narrative and priorities: [Canonical Strategy](../strategy/CANONICAL_STRATEGY.md) (§5 Self-Service Portal, §10 priorities).

## Build status

Not implemented. Engineering Priority 0 includes the portal spine once HTTP MCP is underway.