About
Candid Beacon is built and run by one person.
Who
[TO SUPPLY: OWNER_FOUNDER_NAME] builds and runs Candid Beacon.
[TO SUPPLY: OWNER_FOUNDER_STORY]
Why it is honest about capacity
Freelance availability is normally communicated by guessing. "I have got a bit of room next month" means nothing in particular, and both people know it. The guess is usually optimistic, because saying no feels like losing work - so the client plans around a date that was never real, and finds out late.
A number you published on purpose is a different kind of statement from a sentence you improvised in an email. That is the whole product: one page, with a figure you were willing to put your name on, that a client can read without asking you.
It follows that the page has to be able to say unflattering things. If it could only ever say "available", it would be advertising. So it shows the percentage whether or not it is convenient, it says when you are full, it marks time off as time off, and it shows how long ago you last updated it - because a confident-looking page that nobody has touched in six weeks is the exact failure this product exists to prevent.
Why it refuses to track people
This is not a separate ethical position bolted onto the side. It is the same claim, applied to the people on the other end of the link.
Your Beacon is something you send to clients. If reading it quietly reported back - who opened it, how often, from where - then the page would be making an honest statement to the client while making a secret one about them. A product cannot sell candour in one direction and surveillance in the other.
So there is no view counter, because there is nothing that counts views. The marketing site you are reading now sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, and loads nothing from any other origin - not fonts, not scripts, not analytics. That last one is enforced by the site's own Content Security Policy rather than by anyone remembering, and a test fails the build if an external origin is ever added to it.
The things it does store are written out on the privacy page, including the ones that are less flattering - a crash on a Beacon page records the browser's user-agent string for thirty days, and email links currently pass through the mail provider's click-tracking redirector. Those are on the page because leaving them off is what "privacy-first" usually means in practice.
Where it is
[TO SUPPLY: OWNER_LEGAL_NAME], [TO SUPPLY: OWNER_POSTAL_ADDRESS]. Reach the product at the contact page.