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MOCKUP — not the live site. Proposed /team/. All thirteen people, their roles and their descriptions are the real published values from aikyam.space/team/, read 10 Aug 2026 at 13:40 IST — the page was updated at 12:56 today, three minutes after the clubs rewrite. Nothing here is invented and no name is reconciled.
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The people

Who you will meet

Thirteen people keep aikyam space running. Some of them will be in the hall when you walk in.

⭐ The H1 is “Who you will meet”, not “Team”. The live page says Team, which is a label for an org chart. This page's job is narrower and more useful: a neighbour deciding whether to walk over wants to know who is going to be there. Same thirteen people, different question answered first.

⚠️ “Thirteen” is written into the lede and that breaks a rule I wrote — never put a count in a heading, because a content fact becomes a design constant. It is in the lede rather than the heading, which is the softer version of the same mistake. ⛔ In the build it must be derived from the list, not typed. Left visible here so the decision is reviewable rather than buried.

Space facilitators

The people who run the space day to day.

Tiny Entrepreneurs

People running their own work from the space. Two of them you will meet in the hall; one of them teaches a club.

⭐⭐ This is where run_by_kind pays off, and it is the reason the field exists. Mary Gracy is a person you meet in the room; Olimalar Foundation is a partner behind it. The clubs page credits both the same way and the distinction stays implied. Here it becomes visible — Mary appears as a person, with the club she leads as a secondary line, and Olimalar appears on “Who we are” as an organisation. ⛔ Same fact, two different pages, because they are two different kinds of thing.

⭐ And the group is not a job title. “Tiny Entrepreneurs” is people running their own work from the space — which is the single most interesting thing on this page and the live version never says so. The section intro says it in one line.

⚠️ Reviewer notes — not page copy

⛔⛔ 1. This page and /clubs/ disagree about Aparna, and neither is edited here

This page, updated 12:56 today: “Aparna R (aikyam fellow, 2026) — leads communications and storytelling.” The Tiny Entrepreneurs are Haseena, Nasini Asharaf and Mary Gracy. No Aparna.

/clubs/, updated 12:53 — three minutes earlier: “Facilitator: Aparna NS (Tiny Entrepreneur)” on the Dance Club.

⛔ Three things differ, not one — the surname (R vs NS), the role (fellow vs Tiny Entrepreneur), and the section they appear in. ⚠️ So “is she a Tiny Entrepreneur?” may be the wrong question: these may be two people. Nothing here assumes either way.

⭐ Both pages are rendered exactly as published and the contradiction is left visible. Reconciling it would mean picking a winner — and this project has already done that once today, on the Monday schedule, and picked the wrong page. The owner has been asked.

⚠️ Both Aparnas now have a photograph, which may answer it faster than waiting for anybody. ⛔ But a resemblance is not evidence and nothing here asserts one. The owner has already been made to correct himself once over this question, and a confident guess from a thumbnail is exactly how that happens twice.

⛔⛔ 2. This kit showed thirteen placeholders, and thirteen photographs existed

Every one of the thirteen has a picture. All thirteen return HTTP 200. The earlier version of this page rendered placeholder boxes for everybody, on the stated reasoning that “seven photographs for thirteen people” would mean showing some faces and some gaps — a ranking nobody intended.

⛔ The reasoning was sound and the count was wrong. I queried the page for images not hosted on aikyam.space, got 7, and reported it as the total. The other 6 are on aikyam.space itself. ⭐ A partial population again — and this time a defensible design decision rested on it and made the page strictly worse than the truth allowed. The quality of the reasoning is what stopped anyone questioning the number.

⚠️ The split is real and is migration scope: 7 on aikyamhq.com, 6 on aikyam.space. ⛔ So this page needs a second Ghost instance up in order to render half its faces — the same cross-site dependency as /tech/.

⛔ 3. 1.9 MB of headshots, and the obvious fix does not work

Thirteen unoptimised originals — 1.9 MB. Largest is shem.png at 466 KB; several come straight from WhatsApp. Aparna's is 1385×1347 for a slot 88 pixels wide — roughly 240 times the pixels needed. ⛔ On a phone on mobile data in Kochi that is the whole page budget spent on thirteen faces.

⛔⛔ And the one-line fix is a mirage — measured, not assumed. Ghost's size variant /content/images/size/w160/… loads successfully and returns the original: 630×630, 1385×1347, 489×474. It does not resize. ⭐ Checking only “does the URL work” would have shipped a claimed optimisation that saves nothing — the exact defect class this project keeps producing. These need cropping and re-encoding at build, which is the same argument that made Option B right for the 464 content images.

⭐ Faces render at 88px here, not the live page's 64px. This page's job is who you will meet, and 64px is a thumbnail — too small to recognise somebody by. width and height are on every element so the grid does not reflow as thirteen images arrive.

⭐ 3. What this page is for, against About and Who we are

Team = the people you will meet. Who we are = the organisations working in the space. About = what this place is and where. Three pages, three questions, no overlap. ⚠️ Written down because “Who we are” reads like About and like Team, which is the naming risk flagged in RESPONSIVE.md §7.