Whale Pick Record (Alpha tier) — the rebuilt page.

Swapped forward 2026-08-14 to picks_preview_v3.html once the rebuild gained a designed locked view (the earlier revert was because its gated state rendered as a page-length em-dash skeleton that read as broken). Alpha gating is applied exactly as /picks-v2 does: _check_tier decides entitlement, picks_entitled drives which branch the template renders, and every figure the page draws still comes from the Alpha-gated /api/picks2/* endpoints — a non-Alpha caller gets the static locked landing and no data in the HTML.

The previous page stays reachable at /picks-legacy for one-route rollback.