# NM Mitchell Consultancy

## Purpose & users
Public website for NM MITCHELL CONSULTANCY LTD, an England-based small consulting firm. Prospective clients explore its focus and approach.

## Scope
Four brochure pages: Home, Expertise, About, Contact. No accounts, submissions, database, or automation. Contact publishes the owner's confirmed email and business address.

## Tech stack
Vue 3 and Vue Router 4 browser distributions; eager Lucide icons. Arial body and Georgia editorial headings avoid extra font loading.

## Architecture
Manifest-driven public pages. Platform-aware history, guarded source evaluation on every navigation, shared shell and pre-mount theme loading. One stable-wrapper icon directive owns activation. Read-only content needs no custom analytics events; automatic page views remain available.

## Screens
| Screen | Path | Purpose | Data sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home | / (alias /home) | Firm positioning and four focus areas | None |
| Expertise | /expertise | Advisory scope and questions across four domains | None |
| About | /about | Firm focus and integrated consulting approach | None |
| Contact | /contact | Business email and postal address | None |

## Code organization
App.js owns shared header, desktop/mobile navigation, footer, style readiness and icon lifecycle. Shared theme in styles/theme.css; content-only Vue SFCs in screens. Source headers explain ownership. Screen styles remain namespaced.

## Design language
Minimal editorial composition inspired by the owner's RAND reference, not an exact reproduction. White, charcoal, restrained navy and pale grey; thin dividing rules, square corners, generous spacing, asymmetrical text/photo layouts. Georgia headings contrast with Arial body. Desktop top navigation and expandable mobile menu. Cargo-vessel stock photography loads successfully.

## Data sources
None; public read-only brochure.

## Decisions log
- 2026-11-12: Use four public brochure pages with no sign-in or data collection because the approved scope is a consulting website.
- 2026-11-12: Use the owner's four focus areas: geopolitical risk, macroeconomic volatility, global supply-chain restructuring, climate and energy transition.
- 2026-11-12: Do not fabricate clients, credentials, statistics, team biographies or business contact details. Contact currently states that direct contact details are not published here.
- 2026-11-12: Use restrained editorial typography and maritime-industry photography rather than copy RAND's identity.
- 2026-11-12: Owner confirmed publication of nicola@nmmitchell.com and 9 Hemwood Road, Windsor, England, SL4 4YX. Replaced the contact-availability notice with these details and a mailto link; rendered address and email destination were checked.

## Known gaps
No telephone number supplied. Contact has no sending mechanism beyond opening the visitor's email application.
Rendered page content, desktop navigation, active states, home returns, all checked icons, representative contrast pairs and home image loading were observed; zero console errors. Initial batch checks timed out but subsequent live navigation checks observed all pages successfully.
Phone-viewport visual appearance remains unverified; menu open/Escape behaviour was exercised programmatically at the desktop preview viewport. Screenshot-based visual critique remains pending; DOM evidence is not a visual appearance assessment.
No claims of end-user authorization testing: pages are intended public and no private records exist.