The counter showed 1/100 from user_profiles (founder_pricing=true AND
subscription_status='active'), but the live Stripe account has ZERO
subscriptions of any status — the "1" is a comped/manually-tiered profile, not a
paying founder. A tier/founder_pricing field on a profile can be set without
ever paying, so it is not proof of a paid seat.
Now the count is Stripe's OWN truth: stripeService.countFounderSeats() counts
ACTIVE subscriptions on a founder price. The route reads that (cached 5 min);
null or any failure → hidden, never a number. A comped profile no longer counts
→ the honest number is 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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