Blog and founders’ letter

The blog index links to the first founders’ letter, co-attributed to Osita, David and Jamiu. The article text is a clearly marked editorial draft for review, based on Rechaj’s mission and positioning. No publication date is assigned.

The Moniepoint reference informs the editorial hierarchy, generous spacing, category/read-time metadata and reading column. Rechaj’s General Sans, cream/forest palette and existing SVG shapes provide the identity. The pages reuse the homepage header and footer. Home, Blog, article contents, copy-link feedback and mobile menu interactions are functional. The article includes a reading progress indicator.

This public marketing flow follows the parent website design guidance rather than the internal dashboard shell. See the parent design notes for source provenance and constraints. Routes are static design prototypes and marked noindex while draft.

Careers is linked in the shared header and footer, leading to the careers page and its Regional Energy Infrastructure Lead listing.

The browser favicon uses the exact user-supplied icon - edid this.svg: a bright green circle with a forest Rechaj mark. The SVG is copied unchanged into the shared website assets and linked on every page.

Founders’ thesis · 14 September 2026

The homepage “Our thesis” action links directly to the existing article, now titled “Our thesis: powering Africa at work” and categorized as a founders’ manifesto. Its opening explains existing productive activity, the energy constraint, and the connection between reliable energy, incomes and prosperity. Mobility remains the first application of a broader shared network. The blog card uses the same title and framing. Co-attribution and the editorial draft status remain for Osita, David and Jamiu’s review.

Shared footer links now identify SMEs and Industry as planned applications, matching the homepage network tabs.

Announcement banner

A slim forest-green announcement strip sits above navigation on the homepage, blog and careers pages. Its initial message promotes the founders’ thesis with a working “Learn more” link; no fundraising amount or event is invented. Replace the message and article destination in the page markup when an announcement is ready. Shared announcement.js enables a labelled 44px dismiss button and moves focus to the logo after dismissal; dismissal lasts for the current page visit. Without JavaScript, the message/link remain visible and the inactive dismiss button stays hidden. The strip scrolls away, allowing the existing sticky header and network scroll offsets to remain unchanged. Mobile text wraps centrally with space reserved for the close button.

Social sharing previews

Each page has a dedicated 1200 × 630 PNG social image under assets/social, with vector SVG originals using outlined General Sans and the existing Rechaj logo and angular mark. Images are approximately 66–72 KB and use cream, forest, brand green and electric yellow. The homepage, journal, founders’ thesis, careers index and role have distinct copy. Open Graph and Twitter large-image metadata, image dimensions, alternative text and canonical URLs are emitted directly in HTML so preview crawlers need no JavaScript. The article has Open Graph article type; other pages use website.

The current absolute base URL comes from the existing design.rechaj.com deployment. Change baseUrl in social-metadata.json and run node scripts/rechaj-social-meta.mjs from the repository root before deployment to a different domain or route root. Metadata is local until deployed; localhost and authenticated/private URLs cannot provide public share previews. Existing draft noindex settings remain intact. Source protocol references: https://ogp.me/ and https://api.slack.com/robots.