# Self-Service Portal (SSP)

Activation experience for individual local businesses (Model 1). Important, not the whole company.

## Intent

Owners should feel the value before they pay: genre-aware onboarding, site scrape reflection, a live simulation of an external 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 assistants will interpret the business — not a customer-facing chatbot product.

## Spec source of truth

- Narrative: [Canonical Strategy](../strategy/CANONICAL_STRATEGY.md) (product definition + priorities)  
- Operating use case: [UC-01](./use-cases/uc-01-endpoint-auto-repair.md)

## Build status

Not implemented. Engineering Priority 0 includes portal spine after HTTP MCP is real enough to preflight against.