Post-deploy verification

Run through these checks after each production deploy or infrastructure change.

Public site

• Homepage loads over HTTPS
• /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt respond
• Pillar pages (/learn, /research, etc.) render
• /docs documentation loads

Authentication

• /login and /signup work
• Password reset email arrives (or link appears in logs if Resend not configured)
• /account shows profile and saved content
• Staff user reaches /admin or /admin/research based on role

CMS

• Create or edit an article in /admin/articles
• Change appears on the public site without redeploy

Research

• Public study listing at /studies
• Enroll and complete a test task (staging study)
• Export download works from study admin
• Cron endpoint returns 200 with valid CRON_SECRET

Commerce (if enabled)

• Premium checkout completes with Stripe test/live keys
• Webhook updates user plan in database
• Learning path purchase recorded

Email & newsletter

• Newsletter signup persists subscriber
• Mailchimp sync (if configured)

Monitoring

• Watch Vercel function logs for unhandled errors
• Confirm cron jobs run on schedule
• Verify NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL matches the live domain (affects canonical URLs and email links)