Notes for reviewers

This prototype demonstrates structure and sourcing discipline, not finished coverage. Everything below is deliberate.

• Real, sourced data: Community Action / Energy Assistance providers for all 87 counties and 11 tribal nations, crosswalked from the MN Department of Commerce provider table. Statewide lines are current.
• Honest gaps: cells marked not researched yet distinguish "we haven't looked" from "nothing exists here." Most directories render these identically.
• Verification stamps on every card. Source-ingested records are labeled as such and never presented as phone-verified.
• Ordering by immediacy, not alphabetically. Visual weight descends with urgency — the top band is solid, the bottom is a plain list.
• Shortcuts reorder, never restrict. Choosing a need pins matching records to the top; nothing is hidden, and the choice is skippable.
• No account, no form, no eligibility gate before information is visible.
• Give and get share a card. No separate volunteer section — most people who use mutual aid also contribute to it.
• Four languages at launch. Somali and Hmong are marked draft here; safety-critical text is human-translated before launch, never machine-translated.
• Live demo. This prototype is deployed at exhale-demo.netlify.app for hands-on review.
• Deliberately unbranded. No name, no logo, no distinctive page title. A neutral tab and history entry is harder to recognise over someone's shoulder. Branding lives on partner materials, never on the site.
• Safety branches skip location entirely. The crisis lines are statewide, so asking where someone is would add a step and buy nothing. One tap to a verified number.
• Nothing is stored. No cookies, no local storage, no analytics. The exit button clears the page.

Where 211 fits: the gaps above are largely what the 211 database already holds. This is the delivery layer; 211 is the source of record. Corrections found in phone verification would route back upstream.