Refine Mission & Vision copy

Mission: remove awkward commas left by em-dash edits.
Vision: drop the Valve reference (no other-company name), remove the ~500-person
cap sentence (keep the impact-not-headcount line), remove the Ten Years Out
section, and trim 'Our success is not only our own' and 'That is the win'.
Principles: drop Valve reference and the 500-person figure.
Rebuilt the affected PDF/UA-1 PDFs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

foundation/index.html

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     <article class="doc" id="mission">
       <span class="label">/ Mission Statement</span>
       <h2>Our Mission</h2>
-      <p class="doc-lede">Houston Labs exists to further humanity, by researching emerging technology and building beautiful, effortless products that put its power into everyone's hands.</p>
+      <p class="doc-lede">Houston Labs exists to further humanity by researching emerging technology and building beautiful, effortless products that put its power into everyone's hands.</p>
       <hr class="accent-bar">
       <h3>The mission, in one line</h3>
       <p><strong>We research what's next, and we build it so anyone can use it.</strong></p>
-      <p>Houston Labs is a technological research and development company. We exist to further humanity: to take the most capable technology of our time and turn it into tools that are beautiful, effortless, and genuinely useful, for individuals and small organizations, not only for those who already hold the advantage.</p>
+      <p>Houston Labs is a technological research and development company. We exist to further humanity: to take the most capable technology of our time and turn it into tools that are beautiful, effortless, and genuinely useful for individuals and small organizations, not only for those who already hold the advantage.</p>
       <h3>Why we exist</h3>
       <p>We began by trying to close one gap, between brands and the people who carry their stories, and found a far larger one beneath it. The world is not short on powerful technology. It is short on technology that ordinary people and small teams can actually adopt. That gap, left alone, quietly decides who gets to compete in the next era and who gets left behind.</p>
       <p>We refuse to let that be an accident. Our work is to do the hard research, build the prototype, and ship the product, so the power of emerging technology reaches the many, not the few.</p>
@@ -127,18 +127,11 @@
       <p class="doc-lede">A small, independent lab with outsized impact, known for making remarkable things, and for keeping people ready for the age they live in.</p>
       <hr class="accent-bar">
       <h3>The lab we're building</h3>
-      <p>We are building Houston Labs in the mold of the companies we admire most: flat, independent, and run by the people doing the work. Our model is Valve: hire exceptional people, give them genuine freedom to chase what matters, and judge the work by what it becomes rather than by who approved it. No bureaucracy for its own sake. No growth for its own sake.</p>
+      <p>We are building Houston Labs in the mold of the companies we admire most: flat, independent, and run by the people doing the work. We hire exceptional people, give them genuine freedom to chase what matters, and judge the work by what it becomes rather than by who approved it. No bureaucracy for its own sake. No growth for its own sake.</p>
-      <p>We intend to stay deliberately small: a tight, elite lab of no more than around five hundred people, ever. Scale, for us, is measured in impact and in craft, not in headcount.</p>
+      <p>Scale, for us, is measured in impact and in craft, not in headcount.</p>
-      <h3>Ten years out</h3>
-      <p>By the mid-2030s, Houston Labs is known for three things:</p>
-      <ul>
-        <li><strong>Making remarkable things.</strong> Products people love to use, built to a standard others struggle to match.</li>
-        <li><strong>Research that matters.</strong> Original work at the frontier of creative and applied technology.</li>
-        <li><strong>Keeping people ready.</strong> Through products, education, and advisory, we help individuals and small organizations stay competitive in an age that is changing faster than most can follow.</li>
-      </ul>
       <h3>The world we're working toward</h3>
-      <p>Our success is not only our own. We are working toward a world where the advantage of new technology is widely held instead of narrowly hoarded, where a single creator or a small team can stand alongside the largest institutions because the tools finally let them. A world that adopts what it invents, and is furthered by it.</p>
+      <p>We are working toward a world where the advantage of new technology is widely held instead of narrowly hoarded, where a single creator or a small team can stand alongside the largest institutions because the tools finally let them. A world that adopts what it invents, and is furthered by it.</p>
-      <p>That is the win. Everything we build is a step toward it.</p>
+      <p>Everything we build is a step toward it.</p>
       <p class="doc-actions"><a class="pdf-btn" href="pdf/02-vision.pdf" download>↓&nbsp; Download accessible PDF</a></p>
     </article>
 
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       <p class="doc-lede">The operating principles of Houston Labs, how we organize, how we choose what to build, and the freedoms and limits we hold ourselves to.</p>
       <hr class="accent-bar">
       <h3>How we're organized</h3>
-      <p>Houston Labs is flat by design and independent by choice. We take our cue from Valve: hire exceptional people, give them real freedom, and let the work, not a hierarchy, decide what matters. The company is owned equally by its founders, who share both its costs and its direction.</p>
+      <p>Houston Labs is flat by design and independent by choice. We hire exceptional people, give them real freedom, and let the work, not a hierarchy, decide what matters. The company is owned equally by its founders, who share both its costs and its direction.</p>
-      <p>We intend to stay small. Our ceiling is a tight, elite lab of around five hundred people at most. We would rather be the best small company in our field than a large one.</p>
+      <p>We intend to stay small. We would rather be the best small company in our field than a large one.</p>
       <p>The founders:</p>
       <ul>
         <li><strong>Lambert (CEO).</strong> Business and economics, a background spanning finance and film, and the relationships that connect the lab to the world. Leads business, partnerships, sales, and everything client-facing.</li>

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