Improve vide

video/src/dashboard.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { Page, Request, Response } from 'playwright';
 import { waitForAnimationFrames } from './dom.js';
+import type { HexPreference } from './script.js';
 
 interface Bounds {
   south: number;
@@ -129,7 +130,10 @@ export class DashboardRecorder {
     await this.waitForStable({ afterSelectionVersion, timeoutMs });
   }
 
-  async visibleHexagonTargets(limit = 8): Promise<HexagonClickTarget[]> {
+  async visibleHexagonTargets(
+    limit = 8,
+    prefer?: HexPreference
+  ): Promise<HexagonClickTarget[]> {
     // Empty responses don't replace the snapshot (parse* skips them), so a
     // snapshot whose bounds differ from the latest REQUEST means the current
     // view has zero matching features and we'd be projecting stale data.
@@ -146,7 +150,7 @@ export class DashboardRecorder {
         );
       }
     }
-    const postcodeTargets = await this.visiblePostcodeTargets(limit);
+    const postcodeTargets = await this.visiblePostcodeTargets(limit, prefer);
     if (postcodeTargets.length > 0) return postcodeTargets;
 
     const snapshot = this.lastHexagons;
@@ -175,32 +179,13 @@ export class DashboardRecorder {
           y: point.y,
           count: feature.count,
           score: feature.count / (1 + distanceFromCenter * 0.25),
+          distanceFromCenter,
+          prefValue: prefer ? asFiniteNumber(feature[`avg_${prefer.field}`]) : null,
         };
       })
-      .filter((target): target is HexagonClickTarget & { score: number } => target != null);
+      .filter((target): target is ScoredTarget => target != null);
 
-    const onScreen = projected.filter(
+    return finishCandidates(projected, mapBox, clear, limit, prefer);
-      (target) =>
-        target.x >= mapBox.x &&
-        target.x <= mapBox.x + mapBox.width &&
-        target.y >= mapBox.y &&
-        target.y <= mapBox.y + mapBox.height
-    );
-    const clearOfChrome = onScreen.filter(
-      (target) =>
-        target.x >= clear.left &&
-        target.x <= clear.right &&
-        target.y >= clear.top &&
-        target.y <= clear.bottom
-    );
-
-    const candidates = (clearOfChrome.length > 0 ? clearOfChrome : onScreen).sort(
-      (a, b) => b.score - a.score
-    );
-    if (candidates.length === 0) {
-      throw new Error('No visible hexagons from the latest map response can be clicked');
-    }
-    return candidates.slice(0, limit).map(({ score: _score, ...target }) => target);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -347,7 +332,10 @@ export class DashboardRecorder {
     return !loading && !connecting;
   }
 
-  private async visiblePostcodeTargets(limit: number): Promise<HexagonClickTarget[]> {
+  private async visiblePostcodeTargets(
+    limit: number,
+    prefer?: HexPreference
+  ): Promise<HexagonClickTarget[]> {
     const snapshot = this.lastPostcodes;
     if (!snapshot || snapshot.features.length === 0) return [];
 
@@ -373,32 +361,109 @@ export class DashboardRecorder {
           y: point.y,
           count: feature.properties.count,
           score: feature.properties.count / (1 + distanceFromCenter * 0.25),
+          distanceFromCenter,
+          prefValue: prefer
+            ? asFiniteNumber(feature.properties[`avg_${prefer.field}`])
+            : null,
         };
       })
-      .filter((target): target is HexagonClickTarget & { score: number } => target != null);
+      .filter((target): target is ScoredTarget => target != null);
 
-    const onScreen = projected.filter(
+    if (projected.length === 0) return [];
-      (target) =>
+    return finishCandidates(projected, mapBox, clear, limit, prefer);
-        target.x >= mapBox.x &&
-        target.x <= mapBox.x + mapBox.width &&
-        target.y >= mapBox.y &&
-        target.y <= mapBox.y + mapBox.height
-    );
-    const clearOfChrome = onScreen.filter(
-      (target) =>
-        target.x >= clear.left &&
-        target.x <= clear.right &&
-        target.y >= clear.top &&
-        target.y <= clear.bottom
-    );
-
-    const candidates = (clearOfChrome.length > 0 ? clearOfChrome : onScreen).sort(
-      (a, b) => b.score - a.score
-    );
-    return candidates.slice(0, limit).map(({ score: _score, ...target }) => target);
   }
 }
 
+interface ScoredTarget extends HexagonClickTarget {
+  score: number;
+  distanceFromCenter: number;
+  /** `avg_<field>` from the map response when a preference is in play. */
+  prefValue: number | null;
+}
+
+function asFiniteNumber(value: unknown): number | null {
+  return typeof value === 'number' && Number.isFinite(value) ? value : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Shared candidate ordering for hexagon/postcode targets: constrain to the
+ * on-screen chrome-free area, then rank. Without a preference the ranking is
+ * the classic crowd-and-centre score. With one, candidates are ranked by
+ * their `avg_<field>` value (normalised across the visible set) with a mild
+ * centre bias and a nudge away from near-empty polygons, so a "cheapest
+ * nearby" zoom lands on the green end of the coloured ramp instead of the
+ * busiest (often priciest) block.
+ */
+function finishCandidates(
+  projected: ScoredTarget[],
+  mapBox: { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number },
+  clear: { top: number; bottom: number; left: number; right: number },
+  limit: number,
+  prefer?: HexPreference
+): HexagonClickTarget[] {
+  const onScreen = projected.filter(
+    (target) =>
+      target.x >= mapBox.x &&
+      target.x <= mapBox.x + mapBox.width &&
+      target.y >= mapBox.y &&
+      target.y <= mapBox.y + mapBox.height
+  );
+  const clearOfChrome = onScreen.filter(
+    (target) =>
+      target.x >= clear.left &&
+      target.x <= clear.right &&
+      target.y >= clear.top &&
+      target.y <= clear.bottom
+  );
+  const pool = clearOfChrome.length > 0 ? clearOfChrome : onScreen;
+  if (pool.length === 0) {
+    throw new Error('No visible hexagons from the latest map response can be clicked');
+  }
+
+  const strip = ({
+    score: _score,
+    distanceFromCenter: _d,
+    prefValue: _v,
+    ...target
+  }: ScoredTarget): HexagonClickTarget => target;
+
+  if (prefer) {
+    const valued = pool.filter((c) => c.prefValue != null);
+    // Need a real spread to rank by value; degenerate/missing data falls
+    // back to the crowd score rather than chasing one noisy polygon.
+    if (valued.length >= 3) {
+      const values = valued.map((c) => c.prefValue as number);
+      const lo = Math.min(...values);
+      const hi = Math.max(...values);
+      const span = hi - lo || 1;
+      const ranked = valued
+        .map((c) => {
+          const norm = ((c.prefValue as number) - lo) / span;
+          const directional = prefer.direction === 'min' ? norm : 1 - norm;
+          const penalty = 0.2 * c.distanceFromCenter + (c.count < 3 ? 0.25 : 0);
+          return { c, key: directional + penalty };
+        })
+        .sort((a, b) => a.key - b.key);
+      const best = ranked[0].c;
+      console.log(
+        `[dashboard] prefer ${prefer.direction} "${prefer.field}": picked ${best.h3} ` +
+          `(avg ${best.prefValue}, count ${best.count}) from ${valued.length} valued ` +
+          `candidates spanning ${lo.toFixed(1)}..${hi.toFixed(1)}`
+      );
+      return ranked.slice(0, limit).map(({ c }) => strip(c));
+    }
+    console.log(
+      `[dashboard] prefer "${prefer.field}" requested but only ${valued.length} ` +
+        `candidates carry avg_ values; falling back to crowd scoring`
+    );
+  }
+
+  return pool
+    .sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score)
+    .slice(0, limit)
+    .map(strip);
+}
+
 function classifyApiRequest(rawUrl: string): ApiKind | null {
   let path: string;
   try {

video/src/dom.ts

@@ -553,13 +553,15 @@ export async function installCursor(
     caption.id = '__demo-caption';
     document.body.appendChild(caption);
 
-    window.addEventListener(
+    const followPointer = (e: { clientX: number; clientY: number }) => {
-      'mousemove',
+      cursor.style.transform = `translate(${e.clientX - hot}px, ${e.clientY - hot}px)`;
-      (e) => {
+    };
-        cursor.style.transform = `translate(${e.clientX - hot}px, ${e.clientY - hot}px)`;
+    window.addEventListener('mousemove', followPointer, { passive: true, capture: true });
-      },
+    // ALSO track pointermove: Radix sliders preventDefault() their
-      { passive: true, capture: true }
+    // pointerdown, which suppresses the derived mousemove events for the
-    );
+    // whole drag, so a mousemove-only cursor froze mid-track while the
+    // thumb kept moving. Pointer events always fire.
+    window.addEventListener('pointermove', followPointer, { passive: true, capture: true });
     (window as typeof window & {
       __demoMoveCursor?: (x: number, y: number, durationMs: number) => void;
     }).__demoMoveCursor = (x, y, durationMs) => {
@@ -986,10 +988,17 @@ export async function scrollPaneTo(
   selector: string,
   top: number
 ): Promise<void> {
-  await page.evaluate(
+  // Resolve via a Playwright locator (not in-page querySelector) so
-    ({ selector, top }) => {
+  // storyboards can anchor on locator-only selectors like
-      const el = document.querySelector(selector) as HTMLElement | null;
+  // `button:has-text("Schools")` to reach a specific scroll container.
-      if (!el) return;
+  const handle = await page
+    .locator(selector)
+    .first()
+    .elementHandle({ timeout: 2000 })
+    .catch(() => null);
+  if (!handle) return;
+  await handle.evaluate(
+    (el, top) => {
       const findScrollable = (node: HTMLElement | null): HTMLElement | null => {
         let n: HTMLElement | null = node;
         while (n) {
@@ -1001,15 +1010,16 @@ export async function scrollPaneTo(
       };
       // Look both inside (for the actual scroll container deeper in the tree)
       // and outwards.
+      const root = el as HTMLElement;
       const inner =
-        Array.from(el.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>('*')).find((n) => {
+        Array.from(root.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>('*')).find((n) => {
           const oy = getComputedStyle(n).overflowY;
           return (oy === 'auto' || oy === 'scroll') && n.scrollHeight > n.clientHeight;
         }) ?? null;
-      const target = inner ?? findScrollable(el) ?? el;
+      const target = inner ?? findScrollable(root) ?? root;
       target.scrollTo({ top, behavior: 'smooth' });
     },
-    { selector, top }
+    top
   );
 }
 

video/src/motion.ts

@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ export async function smoothDragSliderThumb(
   trackSelector: string,
   fromCursor: { x: number; y: number },
   toFraction: number,
-  durationMs = 520
+  durationMs = 520,
+  snapToValue?: number
 ): Promise<{ x: number; y: number }> {
   const thumbBox = await page.locator(thumbSelector).boundingBox();
   const trackBox = await page.locator(trackSelector).boundingBox();
@@ -145,12 +146,45 @@ export async function smoothDragSliderThumb(
   await page.mouse.down();
   // The user explicitly prefers a longer render over stepped motion, so use
   // enough real pointer updates for the thumb itself to read as continuous.
+  const dragMs = snapToValue == null ? durationMs : Math.max(200, durationMs - 400);
   await smoothMove(
     page,
     { x: thumbCx, y: thumbCy },
     { x: targetX, y: thumbCy },
-    { durationMs, realMouse: true }
+    { durationMs: dragMs, realMouse: true }
   );
+
+  // Converge on the exact value WHILE the pointer is still down. A pixel
+  // drop lands a few steps off (thumb inset + snapping): the "20 minutes"
+  // drag settled on 15 and the UI contradicted the narration. Keyboard
+  // nudging after mouseup doesn't work here: the app's slider only accepts
+  // value changes inside a pointer session (onPointerDown starts the drag
+  // state, onPointerUp commits), so the correction must be pointer-driven.
+  let finalX = targetX;
+  if (snapToValue != null) {
+    const thumb = page.locator(thumbSelector);
+    const readAttr = async (name: string): Promise<number | null> => {
+      const raw = await thumb.getAttribute(name).catch(() => null);
+      const value = raw == null ? NaN : Number(raw);
+      return Number.isFinite(value) ? value : null;
+    };
+    const min = await readAttr('aria-valuemin');
+    const max = await readAttr('aria-valuemax');
+    const pxPerUnit =
+      min != null && max != null && max > min ? trackBox.width / (max - min) : null;
+    if (pxPerUnit != null) {
+      for (let i = 0; i < 24; i++) {
+        const now = await readAttr('aria-valuenow');
+        if (now == null || now === snapToValue) break;
+        let dx = (snapToValue - now) * pxPerUnit;
+        dx = Math.max(-60, Math.min(60, dx));
+        if (Math.abs(dx) < 1) dx = Math.sign(snapToValue - now);
+        finalX += dx;
+        await page.mouse.move(finalX, thumbCy, { steps: 3 });
+        await sleep(50);
+      }
+    }
+  }
   await page.mouse.up();
-  return { x: targetX, y: thumbCy };
+  return { x: finalX, y: thumbCy };
 }

video/src/runner.ts

@@ -64,6 +64,15 @@ export async function runStoryboard(
   narrationLog.reset();
 
   const synth = loadSynthIndex(storyboard);
+
+  // Unrecorded staging: everything here happens BEFORE the trim anchor, so
+  // the published video cold-opens on the state these steps leave behind
+  // (e.g. ad-02's travel-time colouring + collapsed sheet). `pre` runs after
+  // the anchor and is therefore on camera.
+  for (const step of storyboard.setup ?? []) {
+    await runStep(ctx, step);
+  }
+
   const sceneStartMs = Date.now();
   const leadInMs = LEAD_IN_S * 1000;
   const cursor = { ms: 0 };
@@ -198,7 +207,7 @@ async function runActivity(ctx: ScriptCtx, step: Activity): Promise<void> {
       }
       const candidates =
         step.target.kind === 'hexagon' && step.waitForSelectionReady
-          ? await ctx.dashboard.visibleHexagonTargets(4)
+          ? await ctx.dashboard.visibleHexagonTargets(4, step.target.prefer)
           : [await resolveTarget(ctx, step.target)];
       let lastError: unknown = null;
 
@@ -235,6 +244,13 @@ async function runActivity(ctx: ScriptCtx, step: Activity): Promise<void> {
       await fakeType(ctx.page, step.selector, step.text, step.durationMs);
       return;
     case 'mapZoom': {
+      // Hexagon-anchored zooms project against the latest map response; if a
+      // sheet-collapse or colour toggle still has fetches in flight, the
+      // candidate list is stale and a value-preferring zoom can chase a
+      // polygon from the wrong viewport.
+      if (step.target.kind === 'hexagon') {
+        await ctx.dashboard.waitForApiIdle(3000);
+      }
       const point = await resolveTarget(ctx, step.target);
       const mapVersion = ctx.dashboard.getMapDataVersion();
       const delta = step.direction === 'out' ? -MAP_ZOOM_WHEEL_DELTA : MAP_ZOOM_WHEEL_DELTA;
@@ -361,7 +377,8 @@ async function runActivity(ctx: ScriptCtx, step: Activity): Promise<void> {
         step.trackSelector,
         ctx.cursor,
         step.toFraction,
-        step.durationMs
+        step.durationMs,
+        step.snapToValue
       );
       if (step.waitForMapSettled) {
         await ctx.dashboard.waitForMapSettled(mapVersion, step.timeoutMs ?? 12000);
@@ -449,7 +466,7 @@ async function resolveTarget(
 ): Promise<{ x: number; y: number }> {
   if (target.kind === 'point') return { x: target.x, y: target.y };
   if (target.kind === 'hexagon') {
-    const targets = await ctx.dashboard.visibleHexagonTargets(1);
+    const targets = await ctx.dashboard.visibleHexagonTargets(1, target.prefer);
     if (targets.length === 0) throw new Error('No visible hexagon to target');
     return { x: targets[0].x, y: targets[0].y };
   }

video/src/script.ts

@@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ export interface AdScene {
   transparent?: boolean;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Value preference for hexagon targets. When set, the target resolves to the
+ * visible polygon whose `avg_<field>` value from the latest map response is
+ * lowest (or highest), instead of the most-crowded one. This is what keeps a
+ * "lower rent nearby" payoff zoom from centring on the most EXPENSIVE
+ * polygon just because it has the most properties: with the map coloured by
+ * the metric, the camera must land on the green end of the ramp.
+ */
+export interface HexPreference {
+  /** Live /api/features name; the response carries it as `avg_<field>`. */
+  field: string;
+  direction: 'min' | 'max';
+}
+
 /** A point on screen, resolved at runtime to viewport pixels. */
 export type Target =
   | { kind: 'point'; x: number; y: number }
@@ -85,7 +99,7 @@ export type Target =
    * level. Use this when the click MUST land on a polygon and a fixed pixel
    * coordinate would risk landing on a road or river at deep zoom.
    */
-  | { kind: 'hexagon' }
+  | { kind: 'hexagon'; prefer?: HexPreference }
   /**
    * Resolved at runtime to (xFrac·viewport.width, yFrac·viewport.height). Use
    * this when an activity needs a stable visual location that scales with the
@@ -97,7 +111,7 @@ export type Target =
 
 export const at = (x: number, y: number): Target => ({ kind: 'point', x, y });
 export const el = (selector: string): Target => ({ kind: 'element', selector });
-export const hex = (): Target => ({ kind: 'hexagon' });
+export const hex = (prefer?: HexPreference): Target => ({ kind: 'hexagon', prefer });
 export const vfrac = (xFrac: number, yFrac: number): Target => ({
   kind: 'viewportFraction',
   xFrac,
@@ -160,6 +174,13 @@ export type Activity =
       trackSelector: string;
       toFraction: number;
       durationMs: number;
+      /**
+       * Exact slider value to land on. Pixel-fraction drops drift by a few
+       * steps (thumb inset + snap), which put "15 min" on screen under a
+       * caption claiming 20. After the drop the runner nudges the focused
+       * thumb with arrow keys until aria-valuenow matches.
+       */
+      snapToValue?: number;
       waitForMapSettled?: boolean;
       timeoutMs?: number;
     }
@@ -350,6 +371,13 @@ export interface Storyboard {
   video: VideoConfig;
   voice: VoiceConfig;
   content: ContentConfig;
+  /**
+   * UNRECORDED staging. Runs before the trim anchor, so the published video
+   * cold-opens on whatever state these steps leave behind (colour layers,
+   * collapsed sheet, parked cursor). Use `pre` instead for anything that
+   * should be seen happening (e.g. the vignette fade).
+   */
+  setup?: Activity[];
   pre?: Activity[];
   cues: Cue[];
   post?: Activity[];

video/src/storyboard.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import {
+  at,
   el,
   hex,
   vfrac,
@@ -679,6 +680,13 @@ interface DemoAdStoryboardConfig {
   center?: { lat: number; lon: number };
   /** Plausible per-city "{{count}} properties match" total for the AI summary. */
   matchCount?: number;
+  /**
+   * UNRECORDED staging (Storyboard.setup): runs before the trim anchor so
+   * the ad cold-opens on this state. Colour layers, sheet position, cursor
+   * parking all belong here; leaking them into the first frames read as a
+   * recording that started too early.
+   */
+  preStage?: Activity[];
   /** Activities to run before the cue loop starts (silent, keep short). */
   prePrime?: Activity[];
   /** Spoken line during the outro card. Must NOT repeat the card's text. */
@@ -757,11 +765,26 @@ const submitSettled = (durationMs = 1400, timeoutMs = 10000): Activity => ({
   waitForMapSettled: true,
   timeoutMs,
 });
+/**
+ * Submit WITHOUT waiting for the map to settle. Used by the colour-reveal
+ * beats: the filter cards mount as soon as the (stubbed) AI response lands,
+ * so the Colour-map click can follow ~1s after submit instead of sitting
+ * behind a 2s settle wait while the caption already promises colours. The
+ * following payoff zoom is settled, which is where convergence matters.
+ */
+const submitAct = (durationMs = 600): Activity => ({
+  kind: 'submitForm',
+  formSelector: AI_FORM,
+  durationMs,
+});
 const ttDragAct = (toMin: number, durationMs = 1700): Activity => ({
   kind: 'dragSlider',
   thumbSelector: `${TT_CARD_SELECTOR} [role="slider"] >> nth=1`,
   trackSelector: `${TT_CARD_SELECTOR} [data-orientation="horizontal"] >> nth=0`,
   toFraction: toMin / TT_SLIDER_MAX,
+  // Land on the exact minute the narration claims; the raw pixel drop
+  // drifted to 15 when the story said 20.
+  snapToValue: toMin,
   durationMs,
 });
 const wait = (durationMs: number): Activity => ({ kind: 'wait', durationMs });
@@ -798,23 +821,28 @@ const tapHex = (durationMs = 1000): Activity => ({
  * of asserted. IfVisible + generous timeout so a missing card costs the
  * colour, not the take; the runner scrolls the card into view first.
  */
-const colourMapAct = (featureName: string, durationMs = 700): Activity => ({
+const colourMapAct = (featureName: string, durationMs = 600): Activity => ({
   kind: 'clickIfVisible',
   target: el(`[data-filter-name="${featureName}"] button[title="Colour map"]`),
   durationMs,
-  timeoutMs: 2500,
+  timeoutMs: 1200,
 });
 
 /**
- * The final "the value is right here" zoom. Anchored on the strongest
+ * The final "the value is right here" zoom. Anchored on a visible match
- * visible match (hex()) and centered, so the camera always lands on
+ * (hex()) and centered, so the camera always lands on populated, matching
- * populated, matching postcodes. The old fixed-pixel zoom regularly dove
+ * postcodes. The old fixed-pixel zoom regularly dove into parks or
- * into parks or filtered-out suburbs and the payoff frame read as an
+ * filtered-out suburbs and the payoff frame read as an empty, broken map.
- * empty, broken map.
+ *
+ * `preferMinField`: when the map is coloured by a metric, pass that feature
+ * name so the camera centres on the LOWEST-value (green) polygon in view.
+ * Without it the zoom picks the most crowded polygon, which for price/rent
+ * is usually the red end of the ramp, directly contradicting a "cheaper
+ * nearby" line.
  */
-const payoffZoom = (durationMs = 1700, steps = 4): Activity => ({
+const payoffZoom = (durationMs = 1700, steps = 4, preferMinField?: string): Activity => ({
   kind: 'mapZoom',
-  target: hex(),
+  target: hex(preferMinField ? { field: preferMinField, direction: 'min' } : undefined),
   steps,
   durationMs,
   center: true,
@@ -830,6 +858,19 @@ const scrollDrawer = (top: number, durationMs = 800): Activity => ({
   top,
   durationMs,
 });
+/**
+ * Scroll the drawer's REAL content pane. scrollPane resolves the first
+ * scrollable under its selector, and from the drawer root that is a shallow
+ * wrapper that maxes out after ~230px (which left the loading Street View
+ * pane parked mid-frame). Anchoring on a deep element (the Schools section
+ * header) makes the ancestor walk find the actual content scroller.
+ */
+const scrollDrawerDeep = (top: number, durationMs = 700): Activity => ({
+  kind: 'scrollPane',
+  selector: `${RIGHT_PANE_SELECTOR} button:has-text("Schools")`,
+  top,
+  durationMs,
+});
 
 /** Default silent pre: vignette + hidden cursor; narration starts at t≈0. */
 const AD_PRE: Activity[] = [
@@ -871,6 +912,7 @@ function createDemoAdStoryboard(ad: DemoAdStoryboardConfig): Storyboard {
       brand: AD_BRAND,
       matchCount: ad.matchCount,
     },
+    setup: ad.preStage,
     pre: ad.prePrime ?? AD_PRE,
     cues: [
       ...ad.cues.map((cue, index) => ({
@@ -886,10 +928,12 @@ function createDemoAdStoryboard(ad: DemoAdStoryboardConfig): Storyboard {
         text: ad.outroLine,
         gapBeforeMs: 200,
         during: [
-          // Let the closer start over the live product; the brand card pops
+          // Hand the frame back to the live product for the first second of
-          // half a second in. A static card for the whole outro line plus a
+          // the closer (fading any receipt overlay), then pop the brand
-          // 2.2s hold was 6+ seconds of dead frame, a third of the ad.
+          // card. A static card for the whole outro line plus a 2.2s hold
-          wait(500),
+          // was 6+ seconds of dead frame, a third of the ad.
+          { kind: 'hideAdScene', durationMs: 200 },
+          wait(800),
           {
             kind: 'showOutro',
             brand: AD_BRAND.name,
@@ -902,7 +946,7 @@ function createDemoAdStoryboard(ad: DemoAdStoryboardConfig): Storyboard {
           },
         ],
         // Just long enough to read the URL with sound off.
-        tail: [wait(1100)],
+        tail: [wait(700)],
       },
     ],
   };
@@ -950,13 +994,13 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
         // instead of the same orange map with a smaller count.
         text: 'Every postcode in England that fits, sorted by value.',
         caption: 'All of England, by value',
-        during: [submitSettled(1400), colourMapAct('Estimated current price'), wait(300)],
+        during: [submitAct(600), colourMapAct('Estimated current price'), wait(300)],
         tail: [sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
       },
       {
         text: 'Same schools, same commute, the price quietly drops nearby.',
         caption: 'The cheaper twin nearby',
-        during: [payoffZoom(1600, 4)],
+        during: [payoffZoom(1600, 4, 'Estimated current price')],
         tail: [wait(300)],
       },
     ],
@@ -978,18 +1022,25 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
     initialZoom: 10.2,
     posterTimeS: 9,
     outroLine: 'The commute is priced in. The bargain is not.',
-    prePrime: [
+    // Cold-open ON the rainbow: the colour toggle, the settle, and the
-      { kind: 'clearVignette', durationMs: 0 },
+    // sheet collapse all happen before the trim anchor. Recording them
+    // (the old prePrime) put an uncoloured map, a sliding sheet, and a
+    // stray hover tooltip into the first 1.8s and the poster frame.
+    preStage: [
       { kind: 'cursorScale', scale: 0, durationMs: 0 },
-      // Paint the map by journey time, then hand the frame to the map.
       {
         kind: 'click',
         target: el(`${TT_CARD_SELECTOR} button[title="Colour map"]`),
         durationMs: 600,
       },
-      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 500 },
+      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 900 },
       sheetDown(700),
-      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 200 },
+      { kind: 'moveCursor', target: at(24, 14), durationMs: 200 },
+      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 500 },
+    ],
+    prePrime: [
+      { kind: 'clearVignette', durationMs: 0 },
+      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 120 },
     ],
     cues: [
       {
@@ -1002,7 +1053,7 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
         text: "Here's what twenty minutes actually leaves you.",
         caption: 'What 20 minutes buys',
         during: [sheetUp(700), touchShow(), ttDragAct(20, 1700)],
-        tail: [touchHide(), sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
+        tail: [touchHide(), sheetDown(650)],
       },
       {
         text: "Same twenty minutes wherever it's lit, but not the same price.",
@@ -1028,11 +1079,17 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
     initialZoom: 10.6,
     posterTimeS: 13,
     outroLine: 'Every postcode, proven on the numbers, not its reputation.',
-    prePrime: [
+    // Sheet collapse is staging, not story: do it before the trim anchor so
-      { kind: 'clearVignette', durationMs: 0 },
+    // the ad cold-opens on the full-bleed filtered map.
+    preStage: [
       { kind: 'cursorScale', scale: 0, durationMs: 0 },
       sheetDown(700),
-      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 200 },
+      { kind: 'moveCursor', target: at(24, 14), durationMs: 200 },
+      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 300 },
+    ],
+    prePrime: [
+      { kind: 'clearVignette', durationMs: 0 },
+      { kind: 'wait', durationMs: 120 },
     ],
     cues: [
       {
@@ -1055,28 +1112,30 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
         tail: [wait(150)],
       },
       {
-        // Breathe after the tap: the drawer needs a beat to render Street
+        // The Street View iframe needs ~2s to paint after the drawer opens,
-        // View + the price chart. Scrolling during that window put a blank
+        // and its empty white/black canvas read as the product breaking.
-        // white pane on screen, which read as the product breaking.
+        // Scroll PAST it to the price-history chart (which paints
+        // instantly) and let Street View load off-screen.
         text: 'Sold prices, schools, crime, even Street View, for this exact postcode.',
         caption: 'The whole postcode file',
-        during: [touchShow(), tapHex(1100), wait(600), scrollDrawer(420, 800)],
+        during: [touchShow(), tapHex(1100), scrollDrawerDeep(1150, 500)],
         tail: [wait(200)],
       },
       {
-        // Open a real section instead of scrolling a wall of collapsed
+        // Scroll back up to the (now-loaded) Street View photo, then expand
-        // headers: expanded school data IS the "evidence" the line claims.
+        // the Schools section: real data on screen for the "evidence" line.
         text: 'The same evidence a pricey postcode has, sitting quietly cheaper here.',
         caption: 'Same proof, less money',
         during: [
+          scrollDrawerDeep(760, 600),
+          wait(500),
           {
             kind: 'clickIfVisible',
             target: el(`${RIGHT_PANE_SELECTOR} button:has-text("Schools")`),
-            durationMs: 700,
+            durationMs: 650,
             timeoutMs: 1500,
           },
-          wait(300),
+          scrollDrawerDeep(1450, 800),
-          scrollDrawer(700, 900),
           touchHide(),
         ],
         tail: [wait(300)],
@@ -1111,13 +1170,13 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
         // gets a visual instead of a subtly thinner orange map.
         text: 'This is London under fifty-five decibels.',
         caption: 'Under 55 decibels',
-        during: [submitSettled(1400), colourMapAct('Noise (dB)'), wait(300)],
+        during: [submitAct(600), colourMapAct('Noise (dB)'), wait(300)],
         tail: [sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
       },
       {
         text: 'Nearby, just as quiet, and overlooked.',
         caption: 'Quiet, and overlooked',
-        during: [payoffZoom(1700, 4)],
+        during: [payoffZoom(1700, 4, 'Noise (dB)')],
         tail: [wait(300)],
       },
     ],
@@ -1153,13 +1212,13 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
         // pockets visible inside the school-filtered map.
         text: 'Everything still on the map passes all three filters.',
         caption: 'Passes all three',
-        during: [submitSettled(1400), colourMapAct('Estimated current price'), wait(300)],
+        during: [submitAct(600), colourMapAct('Estimated current price'), wait(300)],
         tail: [sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
       },
       {
         text: 'Same primary, same low crime, without the name everyone else is bidding up.',
         caption: 'Same catchment, less money',
-        during: [payoffZoom(1700, 4)],
+        during: [payoffZoom(1700, 4, 'Estimated current price')],
         tail: [wait(300)],
       },
     ],
@@ -1195,16 +1254,19 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
         text: 'London, narrowed to the postcodes that fit the way you live.',
         caption: 'Fits how you live',
         during: [
-          submitSettled(1400),
+          submitAct(600),
-          colourMapAct('Distance to nearest amenity (Waitrose) (km)'),
+          // Amenity-distance filters render inside the folded "Amenity
-          wait(300),
+          // distance" variant card; the raw feature name has no card of
+          // its own, which is why the first cut's colour click no-opped.
+          colourMapAct('Amenity distance'),
+          wait(500),
         ],
         tail: [sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
       },
       {
         text: 'Same amenities, lower price nearby.',
         caption: 'Same life, lower price',
-        during: [payoffZoom(1500, 4)],
+        during: [payoffZoom(1500, 4, 'Distance to nearest amenity (Waitrose) (km)')],
         tail: [wait(300)],
       },
     ],
@@ -1217,9 +1279,13 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
     name: 'ad-07-renters-map',
     matchCount: 2160,
     city: 'london',
-    promptText: 'Rent under £1,600, 30 min to central London, quiet street',
+    promptText: 'Rent under £2,000, 30 min to central London, quiet street',
     filters: {
-      'Estimated monthly rent': [0, 1600],
+      // £2,000, not £1,600: the tighter cap crushed the visible rent
+      // spread to ~£40, so the colour ramp stretched noise into a full
+      // rainbow and the payoff could land on a "crimson" polygon that was
+      // £40 dearer. At £2k the ramp spans real money and green = cheaper.
+      'Estimated monthly rent': [0, 2000],
       'Noise (dB)': [0, 58],
     },
     travelTimeFilters: [
@@ -1230,9 +1296,9 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
     outroLine: 'The name costs more. The street does not.',
     cues: [
       {
-        text: 'Rent under sixteen hundred, half an hour to central, on a quiet street.',
+        text: 'Rent under two grand, half an hour to central, on a quiet street.',
         caption: 'Stop renting the reputation',
-        during: [typeAct('Rent under £1,600, 30 min to central London, quiet street', 2800)],
+        during: [typeAct('Rent under £2,000, 30 min to central London, quiet street', 2800)],
         tail: [wait(150)],
       },
       {
@@ -1240,13 +1306,27 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
         // line promises.
         text: 'Letting sites rank flats. This ranks the streets around them.',
         caption: 'Areas, not just flats',
-        during: [submitSettled(1400), colourMapAct('Estimated monthly rent'), wait(300)],
+        during: [submitAct(600), colourMapAct('Estimated monthly rent'), wait(300)],
         tail: [sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
       },
       {
         text: 'Same commute, same quiet, lower rent nearby.',
         caption: 'Same street, lower rent',
-        during: [payoffZoom(1600, 4)],
+        during: [
+          payoffZoom(1600, 4, 'Estimated monthly rent'),
+          {
+            // Second, gentle stage: the first zoom centres the centroid of a
+            // COARSE hex; once the fine grain streams in, drift onto the
+            // actual cheapest polygon so the green hero ends centre-frame.
+            kind: 'mapZoom',
+            target: hex({ field: 'Estimated monthly rent', direction: 'min' }),
+            steps: 1,
+            durationMs: 900,
+            center: true,
+            waitForMapSettled: true,
+            timeoutMs: 8000,
+          },
+        ],
         tail: [wait(300)],
       },
     ],
@@ -1281,13 +1361,13 @@ const AD_CONFIGS: DemoAdStoryboardConfig[] = [
       {
         text: "You pay for the postcode's name; the value sits a postcode away.",
         caption: 'You pay for the name',
-        during: [submitSettled(1400), colourMapAct('Estimated current price'), wait(300)],
+        during: [submitAct(600), colourMapAct('Estimated current price'), wait(300)],
         tail: [sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
       },
       {
         text: 'Pay once, find the bargain, stop overpaying for the name.',
         caption: 'Find the value instead',
-        during: [payoffZoom(1600, 4)],
+        during: [payoffZoom(1600, 4, 'Estimated current price')],
         tail: [wait(300)],
       },
     ],
@@ -1368,7 +1448,7 @@ const TWIN_PAIRS: TwinPair[] = [
     savingSpoken: "That's more than a hundred thousand pounds back on an average home.",
     distMeta: '2.6 km apart',
     hook:
-      'Stanmore and Kenton sit two and a half kilometres apart, with the same schools and transport links.',
+      'Stanmore and Kenton sit about two and a half kilometres apart, with the same schools and transport links.',
     center: { lat: 51.57199, lon: -0.3079 },
     initialZoom: 12.0,
     matchCount: 1620,
@@ -1422,7 +1502,7 @@ function createTwinConfig(pair: TwinPair): DemoAdStoryboardConfig {
       {
         text: 'Now colour every postcode by what a square metre of home actually costs there.',
         caption: 'Coloured by £ per m²',
-        during: [submitSettled(1400), colourMapAct(PSQM_FEATURE), wait(300)],
+        during: [submitAct(600), colourMapAct(PSQM_FEATURE), wait(300)],
         tail: [sheetDown(700), wait(200)],
       },
       {

video/src/timeline.ts

@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ export async function prepareTimeline(
   await installCursor(page, storyboard.video.cursorStyle ?? 'arrow');
   await setAspectClass(page, storyboard.video.aspect);
 
-  const ctx: ScriptCtx = { page, dashboard, cursor: { x: 200, y: 240 } };
+  // Park the mouse over the header bar, never the map: an idle pointer over
+  // a polygon summons the hover card, and on cold-open ads that tooltip was
+  // baked into frame 0 (and the poster/thumbnail).
+  const ctx: ScriptCtx = { page, dashboard, cursor: { x: 24, y: 14 } };
   await page.mouse.move(ctx.cursor.x, ctx.cursor.y);
   // Only pre-open the AI prompt when the storyboard actually types into it.
   // Opening it unconditionally grows the mobile bottom sheet (keyboard