<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  sitemap.xml — bytheowl.com
  Added 2026-08-13 (FIXES.md item #7). Hand-maintained. Nothing generates it.

  SIX URLS, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE SITE. If a seventh page ever ships, it is
  added here by hand or it does not exist as far as a crawler's discovery pass
  is concerned.

  ⚠ THESE MUST MATCH THE CANONICALS. A sitemap entry that disagrees with the
  page's own <link rel="canonical"> is a contradiction, and the canonical wins —
  the sitemap line is then just noise. /services/ already declares
  https://bytheowl.com/services/ and this file agrees with it. The other five
  canonicals are FIXES.md item #6, running in a parallel session; when they land
  they must use exactly the URLs below — trailing slash on the two directory
  routes, bare .html on the four static pages, no index.html anywhere.

  ⚠ NO <priority> AND NO <changefreq>. Google has ignored both for years and
  publishing them invites arguing about numbers that change nothing.

  <lastmod> is the real modification date of each page. It is a hint, and it is
  only worth anything while it stays true — bump the line you actually changed,
  and leave the other five alone.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <!-- Homepage. Built from source/home.html -> final/index.html. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://bytheowl.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-11</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Services. Built from source/index.html -> final/services/index.html.
       Trailing slash, never /services/index.html. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://bytheowl.com/services/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-12</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- The four hand-edited static pages. No source copy exists for these. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://bytheowl.com/work.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-12</lastmod>
  </url>

  <url>
    <loc>https://bytheowl.com/about.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-12</lastmod>
  </url>

  <url>
    <loc>https://bytheowl.com/founder.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-12</lastmod>
  </url>

  <url>
    <loc>https://bytheowl.com/contact.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-12</lastmod>
  </url>

</urlset>
