What's new on tarmaclabs.org — May 2026

Tonight tarmaclabs.org got a public-surface refresh. Here's the rundown of what's new — partly because writing it down clarifies what mattered, partly because it's a single URL I can point people at when they ask "what are you up to?"

Three new free tools

The /toolspage is no longer mostly "coming soon." Three live:

1. METAR Decoder — paste a raw METAR, get the breakdown. Was already live. Now has proper SEO + HowTo schema.

2. Currency Calculator — pure 14 CFR Part 61 engine. Enter your medical issue date, your BFR, last day/night landing, last IFR approach. Get expiration dates against §61.23, §61.56, §61.57(a/b/c). End-of-month convention applied where the regulation requires.

3. Weight & Balance — universal moment math. You bring your POH numbers; we do the math + plot the envelope. Why no aircraft presets? Whole post about that.

An interactive AutoBrief demo at /products/autobrief

AutoBrief is still pre-deploy (domain not bought, GitHub repo not created — see the visibility-gap post). But the actual GO/NO-GO interface — pilot card, aircraft card, verdict, AI-style brief, findings list, NO-GO override flow with chief-pilot signature + audit ID — renders live on tarmaclabs.org against three sample scenarios.

The legal call is deterministic. The brief is AI-generated. The model never makes the verdict. 132 unit tests behind the engine. 8 FAR sections encoded. Try it: /products/autobrief.

Real Trim usage on the home page

The "Live Now" section now surfaces actual aggregate counts: 6 active CFIs, 9 students, 126 lessons scheduled, 111 graded. No identifiers exposed — these are tallies, not individual data. They refresh on each deploy.

The point isn't the absolute size of the numbers. It's that they exist. Trim isn't a demo. The lessons are real lessons. The grades are real grades. Telling visitors that with a count beats telling them with adjectives.

SEO + privacy + lead pipeline

A few less-flashy things that mattered. The /products/autobrief route now has its own indigo OG image so social shares unfurl properly. Both new tools have HowTo JSON-LD for rich-snippet eligibility. The dispatch-board preview component on the home + products pages had hardcoded surnames that mapped to real beta users — those got scrubbed to generic placeholders. The waitlist form already posted to Supabase, but the leads had no admin view; there's now a token-gated /admin/leads dashboard.

What didn't happen tonight

AutoBrief is still not deployed at autobrief.app. That's queued behind buying the domain and creating the GitHub repo. The current preview on tarmaclabs.org/products/autobrief is the bridge until the real deploy lands.

Stripe still hasn't been wired on Trim. The endorsement-lookup tool is still "coming soon" on /tools — it needs the full AC 61-65K dataset ingested, which is its own evening.

But every link on the site goes somewhere. Every CTA does something. Every claim is backed by something a visitor can verify in five seconds. That was the goal tonight.