phase 16 implementation

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+# Final Launch Status
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+## Status
+
+**Launch aborted before deployment**
+
+- Critical unresolved cumulative issues: **1**
+- High unresolved cumulative issues: **21**
+- Medium unresolved cumulative issues: **17**
+- Low unresolved cumulative issues: **2**
+- Phase 16 failed or blocked gates: **29**
+- Open incidents: **0**
+- Accepted conditions or exceptions: **0**
+- Deployment: **Not executed**
+- Public release: **Withheld**
+- Accountable launch owner: **Unassigned**
+- Next review date: **After all Critical and High gates have evidence and named approval; no calendar date is defensible yet**
+
+Static source controls passed, but production readiness did not. A website that cannot legally process a form, route a lead, prove accessibility, or identify its production domain is not a launch candidate. It is a well-organized folder with ambitions.