Refresh Pulumi for Startups page

[jeffmerrick]

Updates to the Pulumi for startups, the content is mostly the same but I made some additions:

• Added a grid of capabilities startups might be interested in (content should mostly match the other pages they appear on.)
• Added case study cards for 3 of the 4 logos on the old page (no case study exists for cockroachdb), plus added 3 additional case studies

Ran everything through the brand MCP for voice/tone/style.

There was also a Microsoft specific startups page that I removed and redirected here.

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Proposed changes

Rebuilds the /pulumi-for-startups page with a new full-bleed hero, a program-benefits card, a capability grid, and customer success stories (testimonial + case-study cards), all assembled from shared template partials. Retires the legacy /microsoft-for-startups page, aliasing it to /pulumi-for-startups, and updates the page title/meta description. Also adds a border-0 to the highlight template card and a new hero SVG.

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Pre-merge Review — Last updated 2026-06-26T20:15:00Z

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Summary: This PR refreshes the Pulumi for Startups marketing landing page — a new hero illustration, a layout rebuilt on shared template partials (capability grid, testimonial, case-study grid), and updated benefit/credit/eligibility copy — and retires the standalone Microsoft for Startups page by deleting it and re-homing its /microsoft-for-startups/ URL via an alias. A force-push squashed the branch to a single commit since the last review; the full PR was re-verified against HEAD. The Compostable AI case study card added in the squash commit was verified: all five specific claims (Edinburgh-based, AI platform company, contract-to-production in one day, two backend engineers, 19 clients) match the published case study file. Every program figure and case-study description is accurate; the alias redirect wires correctly.

Review confidence:

Dimension	Level	Notes
mechanics	HIGH
facts	HIGH	All program figures and case-study descriptions verified against live Pulumi pages and the repo case-study file.

Investigation log

• Cross-sibling reads: not run (not in a templated section)
• External claim verification: 9 of 10 claims verified (0 unverifiable, 0 contradicted) · 4 specialists (numerical, cross-reference, capability, framing); 0 cross-specialist corroborations · routed: 0 inline, 3 Pass 1, 0 Pass 2, 7 Pass 3 (verified 7, contradicted 0, unverifiable 0).
• Cited-claim spot-checks: not run (no cited claims)
• Frontmatter sweep: ran on body + meta_desc
• Temporal-trigger sweep: ran (recency words present in diff; spot-check in-review)
• Code execution: not run (no static/programs/ change)
• Code-examples checks: not run (no fenced code blocks in content files)
• Editorial-balance pass: not run (not under content/blog/)

🚨 Outstanding	⚠️ Low-confidence	💡 Pre-existing	✅ Resolved
0	0	1	0

🔍 Verification trail

11 claims extracted · 9 verified · 0 unverifiable · 0 contradicted

• L3 in content/pulumi-for-startups/_index.md "Pulumi for Startups gives early-stage teams up to $10,000 in credits, office hours, and 12 months of runway to build cloud infrastructure as code." → ✅ verified (evidence: The official Pulumi for Startups page confirms $10,000 in free Pulumi Credits and 12-month bill-credit runway, matching both the credit figure and the duration claim.; source: https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/)

• L9 in content/pulumi-for-startups/_index.md "aliases: - /microsoft-for-startups/" → ✅ verified (evidence: The file content/pulumi-for-startups/_index.md contains aliases: - /microsoft-for-startups/ in its frontmatter, and content/microsoft-for-startups/_index.md is deleted in the same PR, confirming the redirect is correctly wired.; source: repo:content/pulumi-for-startups/_index.md)

• L9 in layouts/page/pulumi-for-startups.html "<h1>Get up to $10,000 in Pulumi credits and exclusive help for your projects</h1>" → ✅ verified (evidence: The official Pulumi for Startups page confirms: "You'll get the best of Pulumi with up to $10,000 in free Pulumi Credits so your whole team can use Pulumi."; source: https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/)

• L29 in layouts/page/pulumi-for-startups.html "'Up to $10,000 in Pulumi credits' / 'Your whole team can build on Pulumi, with up to $10,000 in free credits.'" → ✅ verified (evidence: The official Pulumi for Startups page confirms up to $10,000 in free Pulumi Credits for the whole team.; source: https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/)

• L31 in layouts/page/pulumi-for-startups.html "'12 months of runway' / 'Bill credits will be applied for up to 12 months.'" → ✅ verified (evidence: The official Pulumi for Startups page states verbatim: "Bill credits will be applied for up to 12 months".; source: https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/)

• L32 in layouts/page/pulumi-for-startups.html "'Built for your stage' / 'Designed for pre-Series A companies with less than $1 million in annual revenue.'" → ✅ verified (evidence: The official Pulumi for Startups page confirms: "Pulumi for Startups is designed for pre-series A companies with less than $1M in annual revenue."; source: https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/)

• L85 in layouts/page/pulumi-for-startups.html "Aptos Labs 'used Pulumi to transform development, increasing velocity by up to 10x while improving security, compliance, and cost control'" → ✅ verified (evidence: The Pulumi Aptos Labs case study page states this description verbatim.; source: https://www.pulumi.com/case-studies/aptos/)

• L86 in layouts/page/pulumi-for-startups.html "Compostable AI 'Edinburgh-based AI platform company deploys from contract to production in one day, with two backend engineers managing infrastructure for 19 clients'" → ✅ verified (evidence: The case study file content/case-studies/compostable-ai.md confirms: Edinburgh-based (line 43), AI platform company (line 43), contract-to-production in one day (lines 5, 22), two backend engineers (lines 22, 43, 85), 19 clients (lines 22, 43, 85).; source: repo:content/case-studies/compostable-ai.md)

• L87 in layouts/page/pulumi-for-startups.html "Spear AI 'Defense tech startup accelerates compliance timelines to bring capabilities to market up to 6x faster while enabling rapid deployment across air-gapped cloud and edge environments'" → ✅ verified (evidence: The Pulumi Spear AI case study page uses this description verbatim.; source: https://www.pulumi.com/case-studies/spear-ai/)

• L1 in static/images/pulumi-for-startups/hero.svg "<svg width='1964' height='452' viewBox='0 0 1964 452' fill='none' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'>" → ➖ not-a-claim (evidence: The SVG namespace http://www.w3.org/2000/svg is a required XML namespace identifier, not a hyperlink or falsifiable assertion.)

• L1 in content/microsoft-for-startups/_index.md "frontmatter URL /microsoft-for-startups/ collides with alias on another page" → 🚩 flagged (frontmatter: url-collision — intentional retirement; source page is deleted in this PR and the URL is aliased to /pulumi-for-startups/; collision resolves on merge)

🚨 Outstanding in this PR

No outstanding findings in this PR.

⚠️ Low-confidence

No low-confidence findings.

💡 Pre-existing issues in touched files (optional)

• [L1] content/microsoft-for-startups/_index.md — the frontmatter sweep flagged the URL /microsoft-for-startups/ as colliding with an alias on another page. This is the intended retirement, not a conflict: this PR deletes the Microsoft for Startups page (its _index.md and layouts/page/microsoft-for-startups.html) and re-homes that URL by adding aliases: - /microsoft-for-startups/ to the refreshed Pulumi for Startups page, so former Microsoft for Startups visitors land on /pulumi-for-startups/. Because the source page is removed in the same change, the collision is announced and resolves on merge — no action needed.

✅ Resolved since last review

No items resolved since the last review.

📜 Review history

• 2026-06-26T18:36:06Z — Pulumi for Startups page refresh + Microsoft for Startups retirement; all program/case-study figures verified, the /microsoft-for-startups/ alias collision confirmed intentional (no blockers). (3247fbd)
• 2026-06-26T20:15:00Z — history rewritten since last review; re-reviewed against HEAD (69e50a2). Force-push detected; full PR re-verified. Compostable AI case study added in squash commit — all five specific claims verified against content/case-studies/compostable-ai.md. No new blockers.

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Lighthouse Performance Report

Commit: 69e50a2 | Metric definitions

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Install Pulumi	Desktop	🟡 81	1.1s	1.5s	0ms	0.154	2.6s
AWS Get Started	Mobile	🔴 47	5.2s	8.5s	39ms	0.241	7.0s
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[cnunciato]

One lil' tweak to clarify we support all agents (not just Neo). This looks great! ✨

[jeffmerrick]

@claude #update-review

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🤖 Review updated on @jeffmerrick's request.