`src/app/about/page.tsx`

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import Link from "next/link";

export const metadata = {
  title: "About — Drops",
  description: "What Drops is, who makes it, and how the sausage is made.",
};

export default function AboutPage() {
  return (
    <article className="mx-auto max-w-3xl space-y-6">
      <div className="card p-8">
        <div className="text-xs uppercase tracking-widest text-brass">About</div>
        <h1 className="mt-2 text-3xl font-semibold">Who turns over rocks so you don't have to.</h1>
      </div>

      <div className="card p-6">
        <h2 className="text-xl font-semibold">What it is</h2>
        <p className="mt-2">Drops is a daily editorial newsletter about assets the intellectual-property system has quietly dropped on the sidewalk — abandoned US trademarks, public-domain works whose 95-year clock just ran out, domains expiring against brand-recognition that didn't, and small businesses running five-year-old brands they never federally filed.</p>
        <p className="mt-2">We're not a trademark attorney. We're a scout. We point; you decide.</p>
      </div>

      <div className="card p-6">
        <h2 className="text-xl font-semibold">How it's made</h2>
        <ol className="mt-2 list-decimal pl-6 space-y-1.5">
          <li><b>Crawl.</b> USPTO TSDR daily for cancelled / abandoned records. US Copyright Office registration data. WHOIS + HTTP liveness for domain lifecycle. Fashion / DTC / niche-retail seed lists expanded via model-assisted discovery.</li>
          <li><b>Score.</b> Six weighted factors: distinctiveness, age fit (3–15 years dormant sweet spot), residual brand recall, domain availability, competing-active-mark saturation, monetization breadth. 0–100 composite.</li>
          <li><b>Classify.</b> Lifecycle rules assign each candidate an <em>opportunity label</em>: domain-snipe, abandonment-watch, licensing-outreach, or do-not-target. If the signals say "someone's still using this brand in commerce," we label it "do not target" and do not include it.</li>
          <li><b>Write.</b> Local large-language-model drafts editorial copy. Editor reviews before send.</li>
          <li><b>Send.</b> 9:00 AM Pacific every day. Three items for Standard, ten for Pro.</li>
        </ol>
      </div>

      <div className="card p-6">
        <h2 className="text-xl font-semibold">What it is NOT</h2>
        <ul className="mt-2 list-disc pl-6 space-y-1.5">
          <li>A trademark registration service.</li>
          <li>A domain-buying service.</li>
          <li>A legal advisory.</li>
          <li>A shortcut to squatting on someone else's active brand. (That's the "do-not-target" label — and the <Link href="/legal/terms" className="underline">terms</Link> say we'll terminate an account that uses us for it.)</li>
        </ul>
      </div>

      <div className="card p-6">
        <h2 className="text-xl font-semibold">Who's behind it</h2>
        <p className="mt-2">Steve Abrams runs it out of Los Angeles. Technical background, long-running interest in how brands are born, die, and occasionally come back.</p>
        <p className="mt-2">Questions, tips, or abandoned brands you want researched: <a href="mailto:drops@agentabrams.com" className="text-brass underline">drops@agentabrams.com</a>.</p>
      </div>

      <div className="text-center">
        <Link href="/drops" className="btn">Start free trial</Link>
      </div>
    </article>
  );
}