California Forever — Disambiguation Hub

This is the single entry point for everything California Forever. The client owns four related but separate properties; each lives in its own sub-folder. Before acting on any "California Forever" request, identify which property it's about and route to that sub-folder's README + CLAUDE.md.

The Properties

Property	Production URL	What it is	Sub-folder
Main site	californiaforever.com	The flagship marketing site. Vision, plan, blog, press, pledge, In the Media. Custom Tailwind theme. Phase II shipped.	`main-site/`
Solano site	solano.californiaforever.com	Solano County community-facing site. Locally-defensive, fact-based content (jobs, homes, transportation, water, taxpayer protections). Plumbweb child theme.	`solano-site/`
Solano archive	solanostaging.flywheelsites.com	Read-only archive of the original Plumb-built Solano site. Backup snapshot for the client. Lives under the legacy Flywheel slug `solanostaging` ("Solano Staging" in the admin — name is misleading, it's the archive). Never works on this.	`solano-archive/`
Brand Guide	california-forever-brand-guide.vercel.app	Digital brand guide site (Next.js on Vercel). Colors, typography, voice, photography, applications. First client implementation of G&M's brand-guide product.	`brand-guide/`

All four are tied to the same client (Jan Sramek CEO, Anders Engnell Chief of Staff). Each has its own scope, codebase, and hosting — don't assume a request about "California Forever" applies to all of them.

Routing — pick the right sub-folder

Use these cues, in order:

URL mentioned? Match the domain: - californiaforever.com (no subdomain or path) → main-site/ - solano.californiaforever.com → solano-site/ - solanostaging.flywheelsites.com → solano-archive/ (read-only — flag if anyone asks to edit it) - california-forever-brand-guide.vercel.app → brand-guide/
Topic cue: - Phase II features (blog, press, pledge, press kit, In the Media, team popup), retainer fixes, Slide Presentation → main-site/ - Solano-specific content (jobs, homes, transportation, water, taxpayer protections), Spanish translation toggle, /solano/ sub-section planning → solano-site/ - Brand colors, typography, voice, the Slack /brand bot → brand-guide/
Local URL hint? - californiaforever.local → main-site/ - solano-californiaforever.local → solano-site/ - solano-archive-californiaforever.local → solano-archive/
Still ambiguous? Ask. Don't guess.

Property identity card (verified May 7, 2026)

The post-cleanup canonical mapping for each property — useful when checking pull/push targets, looking up SSH aliases, or confirming an unknown URL. The full convention is <property>-californiaforever everywhere we control the slug; Flywheel slugs are immutable (client owns the account).

Property	Local folder	`.local` URL	Local ID	Flywheel slug	Flywheel hash	sites.json id	WP table prefix
Main	`californiaforever`	`https://californiaforever.local`	`QcYISrxM-`	`national-california-forever-site`	`4qx5llvyu7`	`californiaforever`	`wp_uehzvxt6g1_`
Solano	`solano-californiaforever`	`https://solano-californiaforever.local`	`hw36b0MQCm`	`local-solano-cf-site`	`gjag0ffq74`	`solano-californiaforever`	`wp_ed7b43hthk_`
Solano archive	`solano-archive-californiaforever`	`https://solano-archive-californiaforever.local`	`M6YoSLdfO`	`solanostaging`	`ejsm9036pm`	`solano-archive-californiaforever`	`wp_ed7b43hthk_`
Brand Guide	n/a (Next.js, lives in `~/Projects/california-forever-brand-guide/`)	`http://localhost:3000`	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Each Local site's Flywheel pairing (hostConnections.remoteSiteId) is the verified hash above. Pull/push routes correctly: pulling Solano lands in solano-californiaforever/, pulling the archive lands in solano-archive-californiaforever/.

Historical gotcha — folder labels USED to lie

Before May 6, 2026, the Local folder names were misleading:

~/Local Sites/solanocaliforniaforevercom/ actually held the Plumb archive content (despite the name suggesting it was the active solano subdomain).
~/Local Sites/staging-solanocaliforniaforever/ actually held the active production content (despite "staging" in the name).

The Local↔Flywheel hostConnections were always correctly wired — it was just the folder labels that lied. The May 6 cleanup swapped folder contents to match the names. Now folder name = content = Flywheel pairing for all three sites.

If you encounter old project notes that reference solanocaliforniaforevercom or staging-solanocaliforniaforever, treat those as historical — the modern names are solano-californiaforever (active) and solano-archive-californiaforever (archive).

Shared context

Client contacts: Jan Sramek (CEO, direction/approvals), Anders Engnell (Chief of Staff, primary day-to-day)
G&M team: Brooke (PM), Eric (dev), Mike (design), Kristin (design)
Basecamp: Questions go in the CF Basecamp project
Harvest project: Retainer #3 2026 (id 48006319, client California Forever, Inc.) — current active retainer; most non-Phase-II hours bill here. Older retainers (#1 2026 id 46967165, #2 2026 id 47512257, #1 2025 id 46811179) are inactive but still searchable for historical entries.
Master doc: California Forever - Master
Waiting on client: WAITING-ON-CLIENT.md at the parent root tracks blocked items across all four properties.

Active initiatives (May 7, 2026)

Spanish translation toggle — Active. Anders' May 5 ask: prominent Spanish toggle on Solano (and main). Track A (simple GTranslate, customized) live on main CF prod 2026-05-07; Solano local-only. Track B (custom AI workflow) parked. Architecture overview: SPANISH-TRANSLATION-OVERVIEW.md (read this first for any GTranslate work). Scope + Track B email thread: main-site/Retainer/2026-05-06-spanish-translation-scope.md. Todoist project: California Forever — Spanish Translation (6gXVf5mM6PgM8WJv).
Blog list layout — Parked on fix/blog-list-layout awaiting Mike's design review.
Blog archive — /category/archive/ page live, awaiting Jan's next batch of older posts.
Pledge Slack interactivity — Code shipped, awaiting client to enable Interactivity in their Slack app.

See WAITING-ON-CLIENT.md for the full blocked-items list.